Forest

Articles

Photo: Two people walk along a narrow path in a lush, tropical landscape with tall palm trees. The sky is partly cloudy.

Brazil: Agroecology as a Climate Solution Based on Territory

Published: 3 March 2025

The concept of land liberation through agroecology includes, in turn, the freedom of forests, in opposition to forms of privatization, commodification, and financialization of nature that reduce forests to mere credits.

Ariana Gomes, Diogo Cabral, Pedro Martins

Foto: Dicht bewaldeter Eukalyptuswald mit hohen, geraden Stämmen und wenigen Ästen. Der Boden ist mit grünem Buschwerk bedeckt.

Land Use in NDCs: A Guide to High Ambition

Published: 29 October 2024

Guide

This guide identifies twelve ‘implementation areas’ in forestry, agriculture, land tenure, and other land uses that should be addressed in nationally determined contributions (NDCs).

Peter Riggs

Ein Fluss inmitten von bewaldeten Berghängen

“Net Gain” is a lose-lose for rights, gender justice and social equity in biodiversity policy

Published: 17 March 2022

Recommendation

A new policy paper by the Global Forest Coalition addresses offsets to biodiversity. It shows that offsets mostly do not contribute to biodiversity conservation and also have significant negative impacts on women and indigenous peoples.

Indigenous rangers expand footprint in Cambodian forest besieged by illegal logging

Published: 25 January 2022

Article

As environmental activists are silenced around them, a group of Kuy grandfathers have taken matters into their own hands and are reversing a global trend in a bid to keep their ancient culture alive.

Matt Blomberg

Lim sitzt auf einem alten Baum in Chom Penh.

Indigenous rangers expand footprint in Cambodian forest besieged by illegal logging

Published: 25 January 2022

Article

As environmental activists are silenced around them, a group of Kuy grandfathers have taken matters into their own hands and are reversing a global trend in a bid to keep their ancient culture alive.

Matt Blomberg

The Scholven hard coal power station in Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Publications

Illustration of a world map on a lily pad with Amazon animals, plants, buildings, and a boat. Text is overlaid on the image

Brazilian Amazon Atlas

Published: 10 June 2025

Atlas

Since its colonization, the Amazon region has served as a projection surface for foreign ideas and desires. With the Brazilian Amazon Atlas, we want to deconstruct common stereotypes about the region - and show it from the perspective of its diverse inhabitants.

The risks of large-scale biosequestration in the context of Carbon Dioxide Removal

Published: 11 October 2017

The Paris Agreement’s target of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees is largely dependent on Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) approaches and climate finance institutions are already supporting such afforestation schemes. The report describes existing trends in the field of large-scale biosequestration and examines the social and ecological impacts of such projects.

REDD in Brazil - Two case studies on early forest carbon offset projects

Published: 8 January 2015

This case study explores the controversies that arise when conservation groups or specialist companies, often supported by international agencies like the World Bank, arrive with their forest carbon pilot initiatives.

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Forest

Articles

Brazil: Agroecology as a Climate Solution Based on Territory

Land Use in NDCs: A Guide to High Ambition

“Net Gain” is a lose-lose for rights, gender justice and social equity in biodiversity policy

Indigenous rangers expand footprint in Cambodian forest besieged by illegal logging

Indigenous rangers expand footprint in Cambodian forest besieged by illegal logging

What are compensation credits and why are they so controversial?

Old and new markets for compensation credits

How to clear away the haze suffocating Southeast Asia

Publications

Brazilian Amazon Atlas

The risks of large-scale biosequestration in the context of Carbon Dioxide Removal

REDD in Brazil - Two case studies on early forest carbon offset projects

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