Developed and developing countries need to join forces in order to reduce emissions from land use and halve deforestation by 2020, but this would cost up...
A new study has warned that drug cartels are clearing forests to facilitate their smuggling activities, and causing “narcodeforestation” in Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. According to...
Blue & Green Daily finds and summarises the top sustainability stories around the web every morning. We start with our own picks from Blue & Green...
Shell, Adidas, Statoil, Monsanto: are these companies among the most sustainable in the world? According to a recent ranking they are. Devised by Canada-based firm Corporate...
Storebrand, a major Norwegian pension fund and insurance firm, is to divest from 11 palm oil companies following deforestation and sustainability concerns. According to Bloomberg, the...
All this week on BBC Radio 4, the economist Jim O’Neill, who coined the term BRICS to refer collectively to Brazil, Russia, India, China and South...
Over the past few years, many consumers have begun to feel a sense of urgency in the need to change their behaviour. This comes from their...
Francesca Baker asks whether humans are more of a hindrance than a help when it comes to animal conservation. Most of us love cute and cuddly...
Wilmar, the world’s biggest palm oil company, has launched a new ‘No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation’ policy in order to improve its sustainability credentials. The...
Let’s face it, says Jonathan Foley, too many of our systems are broken, and we seem unable to fix them. An extended version of this article...
The World Bank, together with the UK, US and Norway, has launched a new BioCarbon Fund initiative to slow down deforestation through sustainable farming and landscape...
Investors are increasingly concerned about the security and ethics within companies’ supply chains, with requests for corporate information through CDP’s forests programme more than doubling in...
Brazil’s environment minister at the climate negotiations in Warsaw has blamed criminal organisations for the deforestation of the Amazon, but said that they were “isolated cases”....
Despite small signs of recovery in previous years, the Amazon rainforest – the ‘lungs of the Earth’ – is in danger after an increase in deforestation...
A number of organisations have launched the European Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition (STTC), in order to invite states to source woods from sustainable plantations and tackle deforestation....