Can Ghana save its forests without abandoning cocoa farmers?
“We earn around $200 [€175, ed] a month, and every expense has to come out of that,” says Francis Tenor, president of the Boase Sibi cocoa cooperative in Ghana’s Eastern ...
Tropical Forest Forever Fund: the controversial Brazilian project at the core of COP30
It is Lula's crowning achievement, his political legacy for the Amazon: a mega forest fund, the first of its kind, superior to any previous initiative, including the REDD+ carbon credit mechanism. I...
Postpone and improve: the timber supply chain debates the EUDR
Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, better known as EUDR (European Union Deforestation Regulation), is the tool developed by the European Union to counter global forest degradation and, in particular, the so...
What is the ‘empty forest syndrome’ and why it should concern us
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in inglese The loss of wildlife diversity and ecosystem fragmentation have triggered the phenomenon known as t...
Mining is turning the Amazon into a desert
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Imagine an arid, desolate and barren landscape, this is what the planet Mars looks like. For many ...
Biodiversity loss in Latin America, the burden of international trade
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano What do a German eating his traditional sausages, a Frenchman tasting his typical cheeses and an I...