Forest Trends in the News

El Estado peruano destina más de 800 millones de soles en la implementación y gestión de desastres para evitar huaicos y avalanchas. Los expertos en medio ambiente destacaron este tema en el Simposio Internacional “Las Montañas, Nuestro Futuro,” encabezado por la viceministra de Recursos Naturales del Ministerio del Ambiente, Fey Silva Vidal, en compañía de Guillermo […]

Linking and creating material areas is meant to stabilize timber supply chains in Vietnam, but it remains difficult to handle shortcomings related to forestry institutions. Dr. Phuc Xuan To, Managing Director of Forest Trends’ Forest Policy, Trade, and Finance Initiative, speaks with VIR’s Hai Van about the sector’s options to develop sustainably.

Forests provide many key ecosystem services and can be deployed to confront some of the biggest challenges of our time. Stephen Donofrio confirmed the rising demand in carbon markets for high-integrity, forest-based projects.

En muchas partes del país, las inundaciones, sequías, contaminación de los ríos u otro factor como lo que ocurre en la comunidad de Tomasa Huarcaya, han originado graves problemas a las comunidades que viven cerca, quienes se quedan sin agua para su subsistencia. Gena Gammie, representante de Forest Trends, organización internacional encargada promover proyectos de infraestructura […]

The UN High Level Expert Group on Net-Zero Commitments of Non-State Actors, otherwise known as HLEG, has released recommendations on what is necessary for companies to call themselves aligned with the Paris Agreement, in its report Integrity Matters. Stephen Donofrio discusses the role of the carbon markets to accelerate action.

A workshop in the southern province of Dong Nai called for management agencies to roll out mechanisms and policies to promote the linkage between businesses and craft villages in the wood sector. Xuan Phuc stressed the need to step up the communication work to change consumption behavior towards rare wood species, and provide training courses for […]

Forest Trends joins the FSC’s new Climate Coalition at COP27. This coalition will convene different sectors and voices to enhance the role that forests play in combating climate change and ensure that Indigenous Peoples, smallholders, and forest stewards can benefit from climate finance.

Arequipa busca proteger las cabeceras de cuenca ante el cambio climático, por este motivo, en la comunidad campesina de San Juan de Tarucani, en la Reserva Natural de Salinas y Aguada Blanca, se realizó la construcción de las dos primeras Qcochas artificiales en la región que beneficiarán a las familias de este sector. Para este […]

La Autoridad para la Reconstrucción con Cambios (ARCC) impulsa un gran proyecto de infraestructura natural que busca contribuir a proteger de las inundaciones y movimientos en masa a cerca de 45 mil habitantes en dicha región de nuestro país. Fernando Momiy, director del Proyecto INSH de Forest Trends, manifestó que “el cambio climático viene con […]

Việt Nam’s wood pellet exports saw rapid increases in recent years and were expected to become one of the agro-forestry products which touched a revenue of $1 billion or higher. Tô Xuân Phúc from Forest Trends said the demand and prices of pellets in the EU were increasing rapidly, which was grabbing large attention from […]