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Third meeting of the partners of the global peatlands initiative (GPI): Brazzaville declaration Troisième réunion des partenaires de l’initiative mondiale sur les tourbières (IMT) : déclaration

Considering the significance of Indonesia’s peatlands for the environment as well as for the livelihoods of the communities surrounding the area, Indonesia has prioritized its environmental strategy to restoring degraded peatland, conserving the…

By Tefera Mengistu Woldie, National Coordinator, Institutional Strengthening for the Forest Sector Development Program at Ethiopia’s Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, and UN Environment’s Ivo…

This report concludes that Ethiopian forests generated economic benefits in the form of cash and in-kind income equivalent to 111.2 billion Ethiopian Birr (ETB) (USD16.7 billion) or 12.86% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2012-131, considerably…

This report analyses whether increased efficiency in forestry operations and forest product processing and utilization are interesting REDD+ policies and measures (PAMs) for the Government of Kenya (GoK) to pursue, with the potential to attract…

Drought, desertification, urban sprawl and uncontrolled grazing are harming the land that provides us with food on our plates. Yet UN Environment is working with partners to turn the tables, to prevent land…

“Forests Day,” the flagship event on forests at the 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP 23) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), took place on 12 November 2017 in Bonn, Germany,…

The Sultanate of Oman has been planting hundreds of thousands of mangrove seedlings over the past 17 years. Historical and archaeological evidence indicates that dense mangrove woodlands covered much of Oman's…

Forests and farms are key to the fight against climate change, but they receive only a tiny fraction of climate finance. It is critical that we transition to deforestation-free agriculture if we want to stop global…

  UN Environment and BNP Paribas have today signed a milestone agreement at the One Planet Summit to establish Sustainable Finance Facilities, collaborative partnerships aimed at raising development capital to…