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Piecing together the green investment puzzle
LONDON, England: The pieces of the sustainable landscape investment puzzle have very jagged edges, and moves are under way to make all those rough edges fit. One piece lies with the direct custodians...
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Rights, returns and restoration: 3Rs for landscapes
As we look to the Sustainable Development Goals and the new climate deal as mechanisms to secure our future on the planet, it is obvious that many of the pressing challenges facing humanity are found...
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Investment in sustainable landscapes: Time to take the risk
BOGOR, Indonesia: If a tree falls in the rain forest, do investors care if it really fell ….or was it chopped? More investors than ever before do care about how and why a tree hits the forest floor....
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Trying to follow the money: Tracing investments to actual places in SE Asia
In recent years, agricultural commodities have become increasingly popular with investors looking to diversify by expanding into emerging markets. Palm oil, soy, maize and other “flex crops” (crops...
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Investors want to fund sustainable landscapes – now the work begins
LONDON, England—There was standing room only at several of the sessions of the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case event held here on June 10. As investment bankers and fund managers rubbed...
View ArticleWatch: Looking for common language at Landscapes Forum
Investment bankers and fund managers met with agriculture and forestry researchers, representatives from advocacy groups and government agencies at the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case...
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Invest with confidence: Are planted forests in Latin America a good deal?
Subsidized by Mother Nature, society has consumed, for various reasons and over centuries, vast amounts of timber extracted from primary tropical forests. The trees were not planted nor tended. And...
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Landscapes for sustainability: Potential, yes. Finance, not so much.
With land use and livelihoods receiving unprecedented attention at the UNFCCC COP21 in Paris, proponents of an integrated approach to managing land use might well be feeling endorsed. But, as speakers...
View Article‘It is complex but our future is worth the effort’
Following is a transcript of Peter Holmgren’s address in the opening plenary of the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum in Paris on 5 December: Excellencies, colleagues, friends, family – thanks to all the...
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International Day of Forests 2016: Role of the private sector in forestry and...
To mark the Day’s fourth anniversary, Peter Holmgren, Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and Tony Simons, Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre...
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Investing in sustainable planted forests: Tools are available, but there’s...
Industrial-scale planted forests are broadening the scope of their products from a traditional focus on timber toward bioenergy, and even ecosystem services. This change is occurring in parallel with...
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Investors want to fund sustainable landscapes – now the work begins
LONDON, England—There was standing room only at several of the sessions of the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case event held here on June 10. As investment bankers and fund managers rubbed...
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Watch: Looking for common language at Landscapes Forum
Investment bankers and fund managers met with agriculture and forestry researchers, representatives from advocacy groups and government agencies at the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case...
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Invest with confidence: Are planted forests in Latin America a good deal?
Latin America - Subsidized by Mother Nature, society has consumed, for various reasons and over centuries, vast amounts of timber extracted from primary tropical forests. The trees were not planted...
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Landscapes for sustainability: Potential, yes. Finance, not so much.
With land use and livelihoods receiving unprecedented attention at the UNFCCC COP21 in Paris, proponents of an integrated approach to managing land use might well be feeling endorsed. But, as speakers...
View Article‘It is complex but our future is worth the effort’
Following is a transcript of Peter Holmgren’s address in the opening plenary of the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum in Paris on 5 December: Excellencies, colleagues, friends, family – thanks to all the...
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International Day of Forests 2016: Role of the private sector in forestry and...
To mark the Day’s fourth anniversary, Peter Holmgren, Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and Tony Simons, Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre...
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Investing in sustainable planted forests: Tools are available, but there’s...
Industrial-scale planted forests are broadening the scope of their products from a traditional focus on timber toward bioenergy, and even ecosystem services. This change is occurring in parallel with...
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Financing farmers: Can funds for oil palm help save our forests?
Indonesia - Palm oil: people love it, hate it or maybe just use it without even knowing. The controversial vegetable oil is found in thousands of consumer products from soap to lipstick, frozen pizza,...
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