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Analysis: Brazil's Lula hopes to unite rainforest nations, tap funding at COP27
A new alliance of rainforest nations - sought by Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva - could be key to unlocking conservation funding and bolstering a flagging global forest pact at the COP27 climate summit, environmentalists say. → Read More
Africa: UN Nature Summit Set for Montreal As Covid-Hit China Steps Aside
The COP15 conference, which is due to agree a new global deal to protect biodiversity, has been postponed several times as host nation China grapples with the pandemic → Read More
Africa: Insect Muffins? Africa's Bio-Economies Boost Food, Energy Security
Sustainable use of nature for innovative products can help build stronger economies and create jobs for young Africans → Read More
'Surprise' urban Malaysia floods drive pleas for climate action
Widespread flooding across Malaysia starting late last year shocked urban residents, with green groups urging a new approach as climate change impacts become more severe → Read More
Congo-Kinshasa: Wet Weather Dampens Rainforest Loss in 2021 but World Far Off Ending It
Fewer fires led to lower levels of tropical forest loss last year but governments will need to act much faster to meet a promise to end deforestation by 2030 → Read More
How can world leaders make COP26 deforestation pledge a success?
Cutting down forests has major implications for global goals to curb warming, as trees absorb about a third of the planet-heating carbon emissions produced worldwide → Read More
Analysis-To benefit the climate, Indonesia's electric vehicle push needs greener power
Indonesia's electric vehicle drive is likely to overtake its ambitious biodiesel programme within a decade, but will only achieve its aim of helping curb climate change if the country ramps up clean energy investment, environmental researchers say. → Read More
Three-Quarters of People in G20 Countries Want Climate Recovery Not Just Profit
A survey by the Global Commons Alliance has revealed that 73% of people believe the world is reaching a tipping point on climate change and damage to nature. → Read More
Bleak future feared for Asia's disaster-prone poor
At-risk communities in disaster-prone Asia are warning that they have "no hope" of coping with more climate catastrophes. → Read More
Africa: New Warning System to Sound Alarm On Rainforest 'Tipping Points'
Rainforests are far more vulnerable than predicted in the past, researchers find, warning areas that are disturbed or fragmented lack resilience to climate warming and drought → Read More
Philippines among Southeast Asian nations missing from push to protect 30% of planet
KUALA LUMPUR — A growing global push to safeguard nature by pledging to protect about a third of the planet's land and oceans by 2030 will fall short unless biodiversity-rich Southeast Asian nations get behind the ambitious proposal, environmentalists have warned. → Read More
Africa: World Environment Day 2021 - Which Animal and Plant Species Are Threatened By Rising Heat?
Coffee, penguins and hippos - a new WWF report looks at natural icons already feeling the effects of global warming → Read More
Samoa's crisis seen harming gender equality in Pacific island politics
An impasse between Samoa's incumbent prime minister and female opposition leader could see a backlash against gender quota rules in the small Pacific island nation and stop other women from entering politics across the region, analysts warned. → Read More
ANALYSIS-Pandemic likely made 2020 'another devastating year' for world's forests
The rate of destruction of the world's tropical forests is likely to have gathered pace last year, green groups warned, as the pandemic weakened environmental regulations, cut funding for protection work and forced city migrants back to rural areas. → Read More
Military coup, economic sanctions hike threats to Myanmar's forests
* Since coup, nations have begun imposing sanctions on military → Read More
New Zealand's pledge of a carbon-neutral govt seen facing uphill struggle
The New Zealand government's goal to become carbon neutral by 2025 will only happen if backed by more funding and bold policies - including those targeting dairy farmers - rather than relying on carbon offset schemes, environmentalists said. → Read More
COVID-19 controls turn Asia into global surveillance hotspot, analysts say
Asia has become the world's surveillance hotspot and is at risk of serious privacy breaches as measures rolled out to contain the spread of COVID-19 become permanent in many countries, researchers warned on Thursday. → Read More
Can global brands avoid 'greenwash' with new forest-saving plan?
After failing to end deforestation in supply chains by 2020, a coalition of multinationals will develop a roadmap for each commodity, but green groups say time is ... → Read More
Can global brands avoid 'greenwash' with new forest-saving plan?
After failing to end deforestation in supply chains by 2020, a coalition of multinationals will develop a roadmap for each commodity, but green groups say time is ... → Read More
Tree-planting rush overlooks climate benefits from natural forest recovery
KUALA LUMPUR - Leaving cleared tropical forests to regrow naturally has the potential to absorb a quarter of global carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels each year, researchers said on Wednesday. → Read More