Insights: WRI's Blog

Blue carbon is a term given to carbon– sequestered, stored, or released – in marine and coastal ecosystems, including mangroves, seagrasses and tidal marshes. These ecosystems, storing the majority of carbon in the soil, bury atmospheric carbon ten times than their terrestrial counterparts per hectare annually.

Greta Thunberg, a 16-year old Swedish, inspires the Fridays for Future Climate Strike, a movement to skip schools on Friday to strike, pushing the government to urgently act on climate change. This movement sees many critics, but it might signal that climate is already in a very dangerous state.

Commitment to sustainability requires political will and collaboration between the grassroots and the elites to govern ecosystem services for balancing economic growth with environmental protection and social justice.

Indonesia has made remarkable economic progress over the past two decades, but to keep up growth while safeguarding public health and the environment, the country needs to switch paths. A new government report finds that smarter development, using less carbon, can deliver 6 percent GDP growth per year until 2045—while slashing Indonesia's greenhouse gas emissions.

Indonesia is one of few tropical nations actually decreasing deforestation. As a result, the country will earn its first payment as part of the UN's REDD+, a program where developed nations pay developing ones to reduce emissions by protecting forests.

This year's elections in Indonesia will not only determine the country's fate for the next five years, but also the world.

Indonesian Government has targeted 23 percent of renewable energy mix by 2025, and it has achieved 12.5 percent this year.

Despite its private status, hutan rakyat could significantly contribute to social forestry’s overarching goals.

This third part features the top 5 Places to Watch for indications of illegal logging between 01 October - 31 December 2018.

While proactive action from businesses is required to achieve the utmost benefit of low carbon development, the government needs to support the implementation.