UK Environment Agency’s launches five-year plan

In July 2020 the Environment Agency published a new five-year strategy, embedding some of the environmental benefits seen during the pandemic. The plan includes a [...] Read more August 21, 2020

UN funding forest protection in Indonesia, despite rising deforestation rates

The UN’s Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved $103 million of funding for forest protection in Indonesia, through the REDD+ programme. However, the Indonesian government [...] Read more August 21, 2020

UK post-Brexit Environment Bill

Details of the UK’s post-Brexit Environment Bill were launched in January 2020. Further updates on the Bill were announced on August 19th, including the creation [...] Read more August 20, 2020

Updates to Nationally Determined Contributions to the Paris Agreement

Updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement are due this year. So far eight countries have submitted new NDC targets, eight have proposed [...] Read more July 3, 2020

EU launches Biodiversity Strategy for 2030

In May 2020, the European Union released its new Biodiversity Strategy, to address the biodiversity crisis both within and beyond the territories of member states. [...] Read more June 22, 2020

Club of Rome call for nature protection on World Environment Day

On World Environment Day, 5th June 2020, the Club of Rome called on governments to recognise the dependency of humans on nature. They said that [...] Read more June 6, 2020

Climate-friendly COVID-19 recovery also better for the economy

Nations are in the process of designing and implementing packages to aid economic recovery from the pandemic. A new paper from the Smith School collected [...] Read more May 11, 2020

How can green recovery programmes benefit both nature and people? An example from the US

Ecosystem restoration has the potential to create jobs on a grand scale, which will be needed in many countries in the wake of the pandemic. [...] Read more May 5, 2020

Knowledge Tree: decision making for effective, efficient & equitable social forestry

The Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC) has compiled knowledge on how to conduct effective, efficient, and equitable social forestry [...] Read more May 1, 2020

Climate Action Enhancement Package supporting enhancement of NbS in NDCs

The Climate Action Enhancement Package (CAEP) is providing targeted support to 65 countries on improving their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement. This [...] Read more April 29, 2020

Sustainable recovery from COVID-19 in Peru

This document: Resilient Amazon: From Emergency to Sustainable Development, proposes steps to minimise the environmental cost in Peru of the response to the covid-19 pandemic [...] Read more April 24, 2020

Briefing Paper: The Role of Land in Achieving Net Zero

We co-authored a briefing paper for the Net Zero Network looking at the contribution of nature-based solutions and other aspects of land use to achieving [...] Read more March 24, 2020