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Forest Fires Blaze in Indonesia’s Tesso Nilo National Park

  • deforestation
  • emissions
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  • forests
  • Indonesia
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  • palm oil
Tesso Nilo is home to endangered species like the Sumatran tiger. Photo by Steve Wilson/Flickr
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  • forests
  • Indonesia
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Indonesia’s Forest Fires Reignite, Threatening Protected Areas and Peatlands

  • agriculture
  • deforestation
  • emissions
  • fire
  • forests
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires
  • palm oil
Fires are again burning in Indonesia's forests. Photo by Rini Sulaiman/ Norwegian Embassy for Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
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Supporting the New Climate Agreement: A Checklist for Business

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  • UNFCCC
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Counting Trees to Save the Woods: Using Big Data to Map Deforestation

  • Climate
  • climate
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  • climate data
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  • forest restoration
  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • maps
What can other big data initiatives seeking to combat climate change learn from Global Forest Watch? Photo credit: CIAT/Flickr
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Fires Spread Across Indonesia as Parliament Approves Haze Treaty

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  • forests
  • Indonesia
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  • palm oil
  • pollution
  • timber
Forest fires in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo credit: Billy Gabriel/Flickr
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8 Percent of World's Remaining Pristine Forests Degraded Since 2000

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Forest fragmentation is caused by the expansion of logging, mining and development activities. Photo credit: Angela Sevin, Flickr
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Infographic: Choose Your Future: 4 Possible Emissions Pathways

  • carbon monitoring
  • IPCC
  • climate change
  • climate science
  • fossil fuels
  • international climate policy
  • UNFCCC
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Infographic: Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change

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  • forests
  • governance
  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • resource rights
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Indonesian Fires Bring More Haze to Southeast Asia

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  • Haze
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires
  • palm oil
A forest fire in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, in September of 2011. Photo credit: Rini Sulaiman/Norwegian Embassy for Center for International Forestry Research
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The False Choice Between Palm Oil and Indonesian Forests

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  • Indonesia
  • palm oil
Indonesia exported $19.7 billion of crude palm oil in 2011. Photo Credit: Beth Gingold/WRI
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2 New Tools Can Cut Deforestation and Support Sustainable Palm Oil in Indonesia

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  • forests
  • Indonesia
  • palm oil
WRI recently released two new online mapping applications designed to help the palm oil industry grow while avoiding deforestation. Photo credit: CIFOR/Flickr
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  • Indonesia
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3 Imperatives for the Next Global Development Agenda

  • climate change
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations (UN)
The U.N.'s new development roadmap must tackle the pressing economic and environmental challenges we face. Photo credit: Gates Foundation/Flickr
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  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations (UN)