Citing estimates, former central banker Ravi Menon says a carbon price of just US$20 per tonne could halve Southeast Asia’s deforestation rate. At the Unlocking capital for sustainability 2024 summit, ...

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 28 June 2024 – New data from the Accountability Framework initiative (AFi) and CDP shows that achievement of deforestation- and conversion-free supply ...

Despite growing interest in nature and biodiversity, most investors have yet to incorporate deforestation into their financing policies and very few have done a detailed deforestation assessment ...

Malaysia's palm oil industry empowers smallholders to meet EU regulations, improve sustainability, and secure global market ...

Deforestation for commodities, ... South-east Asia’s wetlands are increasingly being recognised for their ability to store large amounts of carbon, helping humanity tackle climate change.

In November, financing forest protection will be a a central theme at the United Nations COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

The world’s remaining great primary forests, including those in Borneo, the Amazon and the Congo basin, are still threatened ...

Home to one-third of all mangroves globally, Southeast Asia has outsize potential to lock away greenhouse gases in these ...

Why deforestation means less rain in tropical forests A new study finds deforestation reduces rainfall in tropical rainforests, ... and Southeast Asia, ...

Elephants have lost almost two-thirds of their habitat across Asia, the result of hundreds of years of deforestation and increasing human use of land for agriculture and infrastructure, a new ...