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Brazil's restoration industry could power the global bioeconomy
In Brazil’s Pará state, large-scale ecosystem restoration is becoming the foundation of a regenerative economic model that replaces traditional extractive practices. To expand its bioeconomy, Brazil is optimizing its natural capital by fostering collaboration between the private sector, academia and NGOs to restore ecosystems at scale and develop nature-based value chains.
Jane Goodall’s Memory Lives On Original
On Nov. 12, 2025, at the Washington National Cathedral, people from across the country gathered to celebrate the life of Dr. Jane Goodall—scientist, storyteller, and moral compass for our relationship with the natural world. It feels almost impossible to imagine a world without Jane’s voice: calm but unyielding, grounded in compassion, and fierce in truth. And yet, as we mourn, her memory lives on.
Heróis do clima, manguezais são poderosas soluções baseadas na natureza
Manguezais são ecossistemas singulares, formações costeiras únicas e, acima de tudo, ainda oferecem um vasto potencial econômico, climático e social. Em meio à emergência global do clima, essas florestas se apresentam como uma solução baseada na natureza bastante tangível, pronta para colaborar com a agenda central da COP30, em Belém, no Pará. O Brasil, com a segunda maior cobertura de manguezais do mundo, está em posição única para liderar essa pauta.
Where Will the Nature-Positive Business Journey Lead?
DATE/TIME: June 13, 8 am- 9 am PST / 11 am-12 pm EST Biodiversity is on track to becoming sustainability’s hottest topic of the year. Following the adoption of the Global Biodiversity Framework at COP15 in December, a growing number of companies and financial institutions are working to understand their biodiversity risks and are incorporating actions to halt and reverse nature loss into their sustainability strategies.
Why Nature, Why Now?
Meanwhile, scientists have warned that we risk crossing dangerous earth system “tipping points”, and that the domino effect could make huge areas of our globe uninhabitable for human beings. Together with rising greenhouse gas emissions, further devastation of nature is nothing but double trouble for lives and livelihoods of people everywhere.
What would it really take to plant a trillion trees?
Tree planting is capturing the minds of those who look for fast climate action. Earlier this month, the Ethiopian Government announced a new world record: thousands of volunteers planted 353 million trees in one single day. This came shortly after a team of scientists identified suitable places in the world where up to 1 trillion new trees could be planted. Such a massive effort could absorb about 20 years’ worth of global greenhouse gas emissions.
What would it really take to plant a trillion trees?
There is no shortage of social justice causes trumpeted by the West† with a revolving medley of “child actorvists” at the forefront. The logical observer may question whether these endless multi-billion dollar campaigns have had any tangible effect at all, except in serving as a stalking horse for mass-mediated interferences in the affairs of other nations. Whether it is about immigration, education or the whitewashing of terrorists, they are there, ready with their scripted messages.
What Would It Really Take to Plant a Trillion Trees?
Climate Change, Combating Desertification and Drought, Economy & Trade, Environment, Featured, Global, Green Economy, Headlines, Natural Resources, TerraViva United Nations Opinion By Tim Christophersen Reprint | | Print | Tim Christophersen is Head of the Freshwater, Land and Climate Branch at UNEP and Chair of the Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration Aug 26 2019 (IPS) - Tree planting is capturing the minds of those who look for fast climate action.
South Africaâs First Carbon Farm
Africa, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Combating Desertification and Drought, Development & Aid, Environment, Featured, Food & Agriculture, Global, Green Economy, Headlines, Natural Resources, TerraViva United Nations, Trade & Investment, Water & Sanitation Opinion By Tim Christophersen Reprint | | Print | Spekboom (Portulacaria afra) is a small, succulent tree that is native to the Eastern Cape region of South Africa.
Restoring Our Degraded Planet
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Combating Desertification and Drought, Development & Aid, Environment, Global, Green Economy, Headlines, Natural Resources, TerraViva United Nations, Trade & Investment Opinion By Tim Christophersen Reprint | | Print | NAIROBI, Jun 7 2019 (IPS) - On the 1st of March 2019, we saw one of the rare moments in history when the entire world comes together and agrees on a joint way forward.
EXECUTIVE PERSPECTIVE: Look to the land: why agriculture is key for sustainable development
Agricultural production is essential for our societies to flourish. It offers food for all of us, and employment for one in three persons world-wide. Most of our freshwater and a great share of our energy supply is used in agriculture. However, while human population more than doubled in the space of just two generations, our planet and the land available for agriculture are not expanding in size.
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