Publications

Dos Territórios Indígenas aos Mercados

Agora é hora de focar a atenção do mercado e dos consumidores em produtos que sustentem as florestas e suas comunidades, com estratégias locais que tenham impacto global, criando benefícios diretos e mensuráveis para as comunidades da floresta e um clima seguro para todos nós. É urgente a criação de políticas, mercados, infraestrutura e conexões […]

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Cadeia de Valor da Castanha-do-Brasil

Dos Territórios Indígenas aos Mercados

Cadeia de Valor do Artesanato

Dos Territórios Indígenas aos Mercados

Cadeia de Valor do Cacau

Dos Territórios Indígenas aos Mercados

Cadeia de Valor do Açaí

Dos Territórios Indígenas aos Mercados

Forest Trends Impact Report 2021

We are a conservation organization. But as you turn the pages of this Impact Report, you’ll find not untouched natural landscapes, but people — the faces of the people we work with every day. “Conservation,” in the sense of putting up a fence around a pristine area, is a 20th-century idea. That approach may still […]

Abriendo el caño: estado del financiamiento en la infraestructura natural para la seguridad hídrica en el Perú, 2021

El presente estudio revela que cada vez más autoridades del Estado y gestores del agua en el Perú reconocen el rol indispensable que juega la infraestructura natural y las técnicas ancestrales en la gestión de los riesgos hídricos. Como veremos, el financiamiento en intervenciones que mantienen, recuperan y mejoran la infraestructura natural para la seguridad[…]

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Opening the Tap: State of Finance for Natural Infrastructure for Water Security in Peru, 2021

By Gena Gammie, Lucas Benites Elorreaga

Bolivian Exports of Wooden Flooring: What Do We Know About the Risks of Illegal Logging and Trade?

South America’s wood products industry is known for its production of flooring, molding, and strip products made from high value species such as cumaru (Dipteryx spp.), ipê (Handroanthus spp.; Tabebuia spp.), and many other lesser-known species. In 2019, South American companies exported more than US$946 million of flooring products – accounting for 20 percent of[…]

Timber Legality Risk Dashboard: Democratic Republic of the Congo

The DRC’s forest area is estimated at 155 million hectares (70 percent of DRC total area and 60 percent of the Congo Basin’s forest area). Deforestation rates have almost doubled in the last decade (2010-2020) compared with 2000-2010. The DRC reported a loss of over one million hectares annually between 2010 and 2020, the third […]

Nature for Climate Action: Nationally Determined Contributions

Policy strategies for managing deep uncertainty with deep resilience

Failing to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is one of the greatest risks facing the world today. However, even dramatic cuts in emissions at this stage will only begin to slow the rate of climate change. As of the middle of 2021, ever dramatic impacts of climate change are already here, and we need to […]

Vietnam Wood Pellet Production and Export: Environmental and Social Aspects

In 2013, Vietnam exported 170,000 tons of wood pellets, valuing US$23 million, primarily to South Korea and Japan. Only five years later, Vietnam exported 3.2 million tons, valued at US$352 million. Today, Vietnam is the second largest wood pellets producer globally (after the United States). While Vietnam’s future wood pellets export prospects look promising, legality[…]

Lao PDR Timber Legality Risk Dashboard

The Government of Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) has developed new legislation, policies, and plans to promote economic development through socially and environmentally sustainable forest management but illegal logging remains a challenge. There are risks associated with the land allocation process in Lao PDR and corruption persists, though this risk has been diminished by […]

Timber Legality Risk Dashboard: Cambodia

Cambodia has seen high rates of forest loss over the last few decades. Between 1973 and 1993 the country saw an annual rate of forest loss of approximately 0.5 percent. Such losses were reportedly caused by commercial logging and 30 years of civil war and political instability.49 As deforestation rates continued to increase, the government […]

Avanzando hacia la Igualdad de Género en la Gestión del Agua

Los hitos que describimos a continuación son resultado de muchos esfuerzos provenientes de diversas instituciones y personas del ámbito público, privado, cooperación, sociedad civil, academia y de las mujeres involucradas con el cuidado de las fuentes de agua en sus territorios. Consideramos que cada uno de los avances es un aporte importante para la generación[…]