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Sustainable Infrastructure in the Amazon: Connecting Environ...
Deforestation in the Amazon cannot be solely circumscribed as an environmental phenomenon; it is the inevitable outcome of a confluence of security, economic, and governance issues. The combination of...
UN CLIMA PELIGROSO: Deforestación, cambio climático y violen...
Ante la preocupante degradación ambiental que sufre la región amazónica y el riesgo que corren quienes intentan protegerla, nueve organizaciones que trabajan en la Amazonia colombiana, presentaron en ...
Online Course: Methods and Tools for Community Forest Manage...
If you work in forestry this course is for you! In this course you will strengthen your technical skills in forest management and forest landscape restoration, we will talk about forest management pla...
Long-term forest degradation surpasses deforestation in the ...
This report generated a long-term spatially quantified assessment of forest degradation for the entire Brazilian Amazon from 1992 to 2014. It measured and mapped the full range of activities that degr...
Mobilizing Private Finance for Nature
This report provides a set of recommendations for governments, regulators, companies, financial institutions, and multilateral developments banks. These are synthesized into a set of “big five” approa...
Political and economic analysis of deforestation in regions ...
This document aims to identify the main obstacles and bottlenecks that limit the implementation of effective measures to tackle deforestation, taking into account the vision and motivation of the diff...
Cost-effective protection of biodiversity in the western Ama...
The western Amazon needs to expand its protected-area system to ensure the conservation of its immense and threatened biodiversity. The cost of the proposed expansion, estimated at US$ 100 million ann...
Editorial essay: Covid‐19 and protected and conserved areas
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a dramatic impact on the global community; on people’s lives and health, livelihoods, economies, and behaviours. Most zoonotic disease pandemics, including COVID-19, ar...
Ecology and economics for pandemic prevention
This article assesses the cost of monitoring and preventing disease spillover driven by the unprecedented loss and fragmentation of tropical forests and by the burgeoning wildlife trade. Currently, we...
Niobium mining in Brazilian Amazon would cause significant f...
The recent niobium study offers an example of how science can be proactive in analyzing the environmental impact of infrastructure development well before it happens, hopefully helping guide policy de...
Earth observation & the Global Environment Facility – Techni...
This Technical Guide includes 1) an introduction to the different types of Earth observation technology and key characteristics; 2) how these data and tools can be used at various stages across the GE...
Delivering Transformational Change: The Journey of the Globa...
There are five principles in the direction outlined in the GEF 2020 Strategy. They have helped to navigate the GEF’s journey for the last eight years. This publication explains the principles and intr...
