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Foreign Policy: China’s Appetite for Rosewood Is Causing Chaos in Africa
Instead, China has voluntary guidelines for tracing timber, which, according to a study conducted by Forest Trends, have been developed as a “stepwise approach towards eventual mandatory legislation.”
The Business Times: Slowly Reviving Carbon Markets, Singapore Commissions Nuclear Study
The tepid trading reflects widespread loss of confidence about the quality of carbon credits after several high-profile analyses that found a number of major projects were not removing or reducing carbon as much as claimed. But Ecosystem Marketplace, a carbon markets information platform run by the conservation finance organisation Forest Trends, sees reasons for “moderate […]
Wood Central: New EUDR Rules Slash Compliance Checks for Low-Risk Timber
Critics argue that timber harvested in high-risk regions could be processed in low-risk hubs such as China, Singapore, or India, and then re-exported to Europe under misleading classifications. “Presumably, declarations would still need to indicate the original country of harvest,” said Kerstin Canby of Forest Trends, who spoke to Wood Central in June. “But if the country of harvest […]
VegOut: How a Malaysian Dictator Created the Blueprint for Ecological Genocide
Cambodia has lost forest at one of the world’s fastest rates. According to Forest Trends, “95 percent of the timber harvested between 1997 and 1998 was illegally felled.” The country that was once 73% forested now struggles to protect its remaining fragments.
Renewable Matter: Doubling Down on Nature
Forest Trends, in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, recently released a new report on the state of investment in nature-based solutions for water security. Gena Gammie, Director of Forest Trends’ Global Water Initiative and co-author of the report, joins in conversation about the report’s findings and their implications.
Wood Central: Flawed EUDR Ratings Prioritize Politics Over Deforestation Risks
The EUDR’s new country classification lisk, which rates countries based on their risk of deforestation, fails to acknowledge many key countries as ‘high-risk’ and does not factor in timber laundered through global shipping hubs. Highlighting insights from Marigold Watkins, Senior Advisor at Forest Trends, and Kerstin Canby, Senior Director of our Forest Policy, Trade, and […]
Wood Central: EUDR Won’t Stop Illegal Timber Arriving via Singapore & Hong Kong
The EUDR—and its new country classification list—will do little to curb the constant flow of deforested and illegal timber arriving in European ports via Singapore, India, and China. That is according to Marigold Walkins and Kerstin Canby, from Forest Trends, who spoke to Wood Central about the fundamentally flawed way policymakers have classified 194 countries […]
Release: Global Investments in Nature-based Solutions for Water Security have Doubled Over the Past Decade
Washington, DC, 10 June 2025 – The most comprehensive assessment ever published of money flowing into nature-based solutions (NbS) for water security reveals that total investment in this sector doubled over the decade 2013-2023—growing from ~US$22.4B in 2013 to ~$49B by the end of this timeframe. Published by Forest Trends and The Nature Conservancy (TNC), […]
Lançamento: Forest Trends, Ministério dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil e Greendata se unem para um projeto histórico
Brasília, Brasil, 9 de junho de 2025 – Com foco na valorização dos conhecimentos tradicionais, na governança dos territórios e no acesso justo ao financiamento climático, será implementado o projeto Fortalecimento dos Territórios Indígenas: Governança, Financiamento Climático e Cadeias de Valor da Sociobiodiversidade. O projeto será implementado ao longo dos próximos dois anos em todas […]

Release: Forest Trends, the Brazilian Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, and GreenData Join Together for a Historic Project
Brasília, Brazil, 9 June 2025 – Forest Trends, Brazil’s Ministry of Indigenous Peoples (MPI), and Greendata have launched a new project initiative, Strengthening Indigenous Territories: Governance, Climate Finance, and Biodiversity Value Chains. Focusing on the value of traditional knowledge, territorial governance, and equitable access to climate finance, this project will be implemented over the next two […]