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Mapping, Management, and Mitigation: How Peatlands Can Advance Climate Action in Southeast Asia

  • climate
  • Indonesian Peat Prize
  • Mapping
  • peat
  • peatland
Despite playing a major role in climate action, peatlands have been deforested and drained for agricultural lands. Photo credit: Nanang Sujana/CIFOR
  • climate
  • Indonesian Peat Prize
  • Mapping
  • peat
  • peatland
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Crowdfunding for Trees: Manifesting Our Concern for a Better Life

  • Build Back Better
  • climate
  • re-greening
Crowdfunding has become key as it organizes small contributions collectively, making a huge impact.
  • Build Back Better
  • climate
  • re-greening
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Perkampungan nelayan di Pantai Utara Jakarta. Kredit foto: Sakinah Ummu Haniy/WRI Indonesia
  • Build Back Better
  • fisheries
  • oceans
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Raising Climate Ambition in the Time of COVID-19

  • Build Back Better
  • coronavirus
  • economics
  • investment
In the wake of COVID-19, we must identify recovery approaches that create jobs and economic growth, while building global resilience against climate change and other crises. Photo by HCC Public Information Office/Flickr.
  • Build Back Better
  • coronavirus
  • economics
  • investment

Déjà vu: Anticipating the Impacts of Economic Crisis on Indonesia’s Forests

  • Climate
  • Build Back Better
  • climate change
  • coronavirus
  • economics
  • forest
Protecting Indonesia's forests will provide an important contribution to Indonesia's ability to adapt to the climate change already in train. Photo by Yusuf Ahmad for WRI Indonesia
  • Climate
  • Build Back Better
  • climate change
  • coronavirus
  • economics
  • forest
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Build Back Better: Fighting the Pandemic and Individual Emissions Together

  • Cities & Transport
  • Build Back Better
  • coronavirus
  • emissions
By avoiding travel and staying at home, we fight the coronavirus pandemic and reducing individual emissions at the same time. Photo by Brian Wangenheim/Unsplash
  • Cities & Transport
  • Build Back Better
  • coronavirus
  • emissions

'Picking Up Sinking Wood': Indigenous Villages and Reality

  • forest
  • indigenous people
The laws and regulations on recognition of indigenous communities and their right to land is deemed to fail without the buy-in from the communities themselves. Photo credit: Mario Munthe for WRI Indonesia
  • forest
  • indigenous people

The World Lost a Belgium-sized Area of Primary Rainforests Last Year

  • deforestation
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Mapping
Primary rainforests are critically important for storing carbon and providing habitat for jaguars, orangutans, gorillas and other animals. Photo by stokpic/Pixabay
  • deforestation
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Mapping

Why Private Forests Should Not Be Neglected

  • forest
  • indigenous people
Into the wild: Subayang River, which parts the Bukit Rimbang Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary, has seen numerous conflicts of interests between forest administrators and local stakeholders. (The Jakarta Post/Tarko Sudiarno)
  • forest
  • indigenous people

The Vision of Social Forestry in South Sumatera

  • indigenous people
Presiden Joko Widodo menyerahkan sertifikat hak atas tanah kepada masyarakat di berbagai provinsi. Kredit foto: Sekretaris Kabinet RI
  • indigenous people

Quo Vadis Social Forestry

  • forest
  • indigenous people
Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Siti Nurbaya memberikan sambutan dalam penyerahan SK Perhutanan Sosial di Taman Wisata Alam Punti Kayu, Palembang. Kredit foto: WRI Indonesia
  • forest
  • indigenous people
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A man canoeing in Orientale, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Flickr/Julien Harneis
  • climate change
  • forest
  • indigenous people

Long, winding road for indigenous rights

  • indigenous people
  • Indonesia
  • land rights
  • indigenous people
  • Indonesia
  • land rights

As Indigenous Groups Wait Decades for Land Titles, Companies Are Acquiring Their Territories

  • deforestation
  • forest
  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • natural resources
  • palm oil
  • deforestation
  • forest
  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • natural resources
  • palm oil

5 Ways Indigenous Groups Are Fighting Back Against Land Seizures

  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure

For Indigenous Peoples, Losing Land Can Mean Losing Lives

  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • poverty
  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • poverty

Power Plants Use Water, But We Have No Idea How Much

  • Climate
  • coal
  • Mapping
  • oil and gas
  • water
  • water risk
  • water stress
  • Climate
  • coal
  • Mapping
  • oil and gas
  • water
  • water risk
  • water stress