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Our planet’s biodiversity is an intricate web of life that sustains us all.
While financial mechanisms can support its protection, they must be designed with a deep understanding of—and respect for—ecological principles.
Read: https://bit.ly/4jmaQfe
@forestsmatter.bsky.social | #TreesPeoplePlanet
While financial mechanisms can support its protection, they must be designed with a deep understanding of—and respect for—ecological principles.
Read: https://bit.ly/4jmaQfe
@forestsmatter.bsky.social | #TreesPeoplePlanet
August 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Our planet’s biodiversity is an intricate web of life that sustains us all.
While financial mechanisms can support its protection, they must be designed with a deep understanding of—and respect for—ecological principles.
Read: https://bit.ly/4jmaQfe
@forestsmatter.bsky.social | #TreesPeoplePlanet
While financial mechanisms can support its protection, they must be designed with a deep understanding of—and respect for—ecological principles.
Read: https://bit.ly/4jmaQfe
@forestsmatter.bsky.social | #TreesPeoplePlanet
Reposted
Our planet’s biodiversity is an intricate web of life that sustains us all.
While financial mechanisms can support its protection, they must be designed with a deep understanding of—and respect for—ecological principles.
Read🔗: https://bit.ly/4jmaQfe
@forestsmatter.bsky.social #TreesPeoplePlanet
While financial mechanisms can support its protection, they must be designed with a deep understanding of—and respect for—ecological principles.
Read🔗: https://bit.ly/4jmaQfe
@forestsmatter.bsky.social #TreesPeoplePlanet
July 20, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Our planet’s biodiversity is an intricate web of life that sustains us all.
While financial mechanisms can support its protection, they must be designed with a deep understanding of—and respect for—ecological principles.
Read🔗: https://bit.ly/4jmaQfe
@forestsmatter.bsky.social #TreesPeoplePlanet
While financial mechanisms can support its protection, they must be designed with a deep understanding of—and respect for—ecological principles.
Read🔗: https://bit.ly/4jmaQfe
@forestsmatter.bsky.social #TreesPeoplePlanet
All you ever wanted to know about the Paris Agreement but never dared ti ask ...
climateanalytics.org/publications...
climateanalytics.org/publications...
Latest science on the 1.5°C limit of the Paris Agreement
This briefing provides a comprehensive overview of what the science is saying now about the 1.5°C warming limit – what it means, what is at stake, and what actions are needed to limit the risks of ove...
climateanalytics.org
July 20, 2025 at 7:56 AM
All you ever wanted to know about the Paris Agreement but never dared ti ask ...
climateanalytics.org/publications...
climateanalytics.org/publications...
"Political cowardice is hindering European efforts to face up to the effects of the climate crisis, even as the continent is pummelled by a record-breaking heatwave, the EU’s green transition chief has warned."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Political cowardice hindering Europe’s climate efforts, says EU’s green chief
Teresa Ribera says effects of crisis are becoming increasingly obvious but not translating into proper action
www.theguardian.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"Political cowardice is hindering European efforts to face up to the effects of the climate crisis, even as the continent is pummelled by a record-breaking heatwave, the EU’s green transition chief has warned."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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What is wrong with us... we buy fuel from Russia for a value twice bigger than the aid sent to Ukraine.
What is wrong with us... we buy fuel from Russia for a value twice bigger than the aid sent to Ukraine.
How the West is helping Russia to fund its war on Ukraine
Data shows that Russian fossil fuel revenues are three times higher than aid allocated to Ukraine.
www.bbc.com
May 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
www.bbc.com/news/article...
What is wrong with us... we buy fuel from Russia for a value twice bigger than the aid sent to Ukraine.
What is wrong with us... we buy fuel from Russia for a value twice bigger than the aid sent to Ukraine.
The second largest patch of forest in South America is disappearing under our eyes while logging and agriculture plunder South America’s Gran Chaco
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A cemetery of trees’: vast green expanses turned to dust as loggers plunder South America’s Gran Chaco
Jaguars, giant armadillos and ocelots among species threatened by shrinking habitat in one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The second largest patch of forest in South America is disappearing under our eyes while logging and agriculture plunder South America’s Gran Chaco
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Illegal gold miners are now operating very close to the 2nd tallest tree in the Amazon Rainforest.
Six giant trees are found inside the Iratapuru River Sustainable Development Reserve in Brazil’s Amapá state.
Despite the area’s protected status, gold miners are illegally operating just 1km away.
Six giant trees are found inside the Iratapuru River Sustainable Development Reserve in Brazil’s Amapá state.
Despite the area’s protected status, gold miners are illegally operating just 1km away.
Gold rush moves closer to Amazon’s second-tallest tree
Illegal gold miners are now operating very close to the second-tallest tree in the Amazon Rainforest, Mongabay’s Fernanda Wenzel reported in April. Six giant trees, including a red angelim (Dinizia…
news.mongabay.com
May 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Illegal gold miners are now operating very close to the 2nd tallest tree in the Amazon Rainforest.
Six giant trees are found inside the Iratapuru River Sustainable Development Reserve in Brazil’s Amapá state.
Despite the area’s protected status, gold miners are illegally operating just 1km away.
Six giant trees are found inside the Iratapuru River Sustainable Development Reserve in Brazil’s Amapá state.
Despite the area’s protected status, gold miners are illegally operating just 1km away.
Converting 3% of corn cultivated land to solar could yield the same amount of energy as all corn ethanol farming does annually in the USA....
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/new-...
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/new-...
New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production. It’s no contest.
In fact, it would require about 31 hectares of corn ethanol to produce the same amount of energy generated by one hectare of land covered in solar panels.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
April 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Converting 3% of corn cultivated land to solar could yield the same amount of energy as all corn ethanol farming does annually in the USA....
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/new-...
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/new-...
Strolling along the Lez (downtown Montpellier, FR) for Easter...
April 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Strolling along the Lez (downtown Montpellier, FR) for Easter...
"Australia’s biggest industrial climate polluter received the equivalent of millions of dollars in carbon credits from the federal government last year, despite increasing its emissions"
We are near a precipice and make large strides forward...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We are near a precipice and make large strides forward...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Australia’s biggest industrial polluter receives millions in carbon credits despite rising emissions
Safeguard mechanism revamp leads to overall emissions fall but 70% of coal and gas facilities covered by scheme increased direct pollution
www.theguardian.com
April 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
"Australia’s biggest industrial climate polluter received the equivalent of millions of dollars in carbon credits from the federal government last year, despite increasing its emissions"
We are near a precipice and make large strides forward...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We are near a precipice and make large strides forward...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Net-Zero: A Broken Promise or Just Sold Out? What I See Happening and What we, at @cifor-icraf.bsky.social, can do about it?
www.linkedin.com/pulse/net-ze...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/net-ze...
Net-Zero: A Broken Promise or Just Sold Out? What I See Happening and What can we, at CIFOR-ICRAF, do about it?
A few years back, there was a huge buzz. Everywhere you looked, big corporations, powerful banks, and major financial players were stepping up to the microphone, pledging allegiance to "net-zero" by 2...
www.linkedin.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Net-Zero: A Broken Promise or Just Sold Out? What I See Happening and What we, at @cifor-icraf.bsky.social, can do about it?
www.linkedin.com/pulse/net-ze...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/net-ze...
A new satellite named "Biomass" equiped with a revolutionary scanner will be fired into Earth orbit this month to measure effects of deforestation.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Space probe to map carbon content of world’s remotest tropical forests
Revolutionary scanner to be fired into Earth orbit this month to measure effects of deforestation
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
A new satellite named "Biomass" equiped with a revolutionary scanner will be fired into Earth orbit this month to measure effects of deforestation.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Heat and water destroy capital. Flooded homes lose value. Overheated cities become uninhabitable. Entire asset classes are degrading in real time.”
Big insurance company waking up to realities?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Big insurance company waking up to realities?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Heat and water destroy capital. Flooded homes lose value. Overheated cities become uninhabitable. Entire asset classes are degrading in real time.”
Big insurance company waking up to realities?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Big insurance company waking up to realities?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The damage #climatechange will inflict on the world’s economy is likely to have been massively underestimated
theconversation.com/global-warmi...
theconversation.com/global-warmi...
Global warming of more than 3°C this century may wipe 40% off the world’s economy, new analysis reveals
To date, projections of how climate change will affect global GDP have been massively underestimated.
theconversation.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:24 AM
The damage #climatechange will inflict on the world’s economy is likely to have been massively underestimated
theconversation.com/global-warmi...
theconversation.com/global-warmi...
Addiction to fossil fuels will be our end
"Perversely, our governments continue to give out hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to this damaging industry. It is past time that stops."
phys.org/news/2025-03...
"Perversely, our governments continue to give out hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to this damaging industry. It is past time that stops."
phys.org/news/2025-03...
Fossil fuels drive climate, health and biodiversity crises, scientists warn
In a review published in the journal Oxford Open Climate Change, top scientists issued an urgent warning that fossil fuels and the fossil fuel industry are driving interlinked crises that threaten peo...
phys.org
March 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Addiction to fossil fuels will be our end
"Perversely, our governments continue to give out hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to this damaging industry. It is past time that stops."
phys.org/news/2025-03...
"Perversely, our governments continue to give out hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to this damaging industry. It is past time that stops."
phys.org/news/2025-03...
Could a new kind of carbon budget ensure top emitters pay their dues?
... very likely not unfortunately. We, they know who bears the most carbon debt.
www.newscientist.com/article/2474...
... very likely not unfortunately. We, they know who bears the most carbon debt.
www.newscientist.com/article/2474...
Could a new kind of carbon budget ensure top emitters pay their dues?
Some researchers propose that countries should start to rack up a carbon debt once they exceed their carbon budget, obliging them to do more to draw down carbon dioxide, but the idea is unlikely to fo...
www.newscientist.com
March 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Could a new kind of carbon budget ensure top emitters pay their dues?
... very likely not unfortunately. We, they know who bears the most carbon debt.
www.newscientist.com/article/2474...
... very likely not unfortunately. We, they know who bears the most carbon debt.
www.newscientist.com/article/2474...
"Gold mining in Madre de Dios, Peru, is destroying rare peatland swamps that serve as critical carbon sinks"
news.mongabay.com/2025/03/peru...
news.mongabay.com/2025/03/peru...
Peru’s rare peatland swamps at risk as illegal gold mining expands
Hidden within the Amazon Rainforest are rare, carbon-rich ecosystems known as peatlands, a type of swamp forest that’s key to combatting climate change through its capacity to absorb and store carbon....
news.mongabay.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
"Gold mining in Madre de Dios, Peru, is destroying rare peatland swamps that serve as critical carbon sinks"
news.mongabay.com/2025/03/peru...
news.mongabay.com/2025/03/peru...
If you were still wondering why Forests matter.... Venice has been built on wood supports.These are still here 4 centuries later.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Mud, water and wood: The system that kept a 1604-year-old city afloat
Most modern structures are built to last 50 years or so, but ingenious ancient engineering has kept this watery city afloat for more than 1,600 years – using only wood.
www.bbc.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
If you were still wondering why Forests matter.... Venice has been built on wood supports.These are still here 4 centuries later.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
A quick take on the proposed by Brazil Tropical Forest Forever Facility...
www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...
www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...
The Tropical Forest Forever Facility: Brazil's Area-Based Forest… | Robert Nasi
Brazil's proposed Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) presents an intriguing new approach that deserves careful analysis. Something we can't do in such a…
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March 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
A quick take on the proposed by Brazil Tropical Forest Forever Facility...
www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...
www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...