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The Role of Economic Valuation for Regulating Service of Mangrove Ecosystem

  • coast ecosystems
  • economic valuation
  • ecosystem services
Mangrove memiliki jasa pengaturan, yaitu sebagai benteng pertahanan alami bagi wilayah pesisir dan pulau-pulau kecil. Kredit foto: Bayu Setiawan/Unsplash
  • coast ecosystems
  • economic valuation
  • ecosystem services

3 Reasons Why Food Estate Does Not Answer Food Security and Nutrition Agenda

  • creating a sustainable food future
  • food
  • food security
Intervensi bagi permasalahan pangan sebaiknya tidak dilakukan dengan cara-cara yang memiliki risiko lingkungan, ekonomi, dan kesehatan. Foto oleh Kemal Jufri untuk WRI Indonesia
  • creating a sustainable food future
  • food
  • food security
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How to Build a Circular Economy

  • Cities & Transport
  • business
  • emissions
  • food waste
  • green economy
  • greenhouse gasses (GHG)
  • natural resources
  • sustainability initiative
  • sustainable business
A circular economy can help mitigate the climate crisis, and makes social and financial sense. Photo by Aaron Minnick | WRI.
  • Cities & Transport
  • business
  • emissions
  • food waste
  • green economy
  • greenhouse gasses (GHG)
  • natural resources
  • sustainability initiative
  • sustainable business
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Climate Change Poses an Existential Risk to Ocean Industries. Here’s How They Can Respond.

  • adaptation
  • climate
  • climate change
  • coral reefs
  • fisheries
  • marine
  • oceans
Reef diver off Chagos Islands in Indian Ocean. Photo by Mark Spalding/Flickr
  • adaptation
  • climate
  • climate change
  • coral reefs
  • fisheries
  • marine
  • oceans
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WRI Indonesia’s team in a tree planting offset project in West Java, March 2019. Photo credit: WRI Indonesia
  • sustainability initiative
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Flight Decisions Matter for Climate Change

  • Cities & Transport
  • sustainability initiative
For years, airlines have experimented with biofuels, aiming to reduce both carbon emissions and their reliance on fossil fuels. It’s been a turbulent journey buffeted by inconsistent investment and the periodic lure of cheap oil. (Bloomberg/The Jakarta Post/File)
  • Cities & Transport
  • sustainability initiative
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6 Recent Signs of Hope for the Ocean

  • biodiversity
  • coral reefs
  • oceans
Coral reef at Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by US Fish and Wildlife Service/Flickr
  • biodiversity
  • coral reefs
  • oceans
Data

Share of Total Food Available that is Lost or Wasted

  • creating a sustainable food future
  • food loss
  • food waste
  • creating a sustainable food future
  • food loss
  • food waste

Local Communities Restore Two of Indonesia's Most Threatened National Parks

  • forest
  • forest restoration
  • landscape restoration
Satrio Adi Wicaksono (WRI), Wiratno (Director General for Natural Resources and Ecosystem Conservation), and Khouni Lomban Rawung (Ambassador for Celebes crested macaque conservation), at the National Conservation Day Celebration. Credit: WRI Indonesia
  • forest
  • forest restoration
  • landscape restoration
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Beef production has an outsized climate impact compared to other foods. Photo by SDA Natural Resources Conservation Service/Wikimedia Commons
  • creating a sustainable food future
  • food
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Unlocking Climate Action: When Nations, States and Cities Reinforce Each Other, Everybody Wins

  • climate policy
  • forest restoration
  • landscape restoration
Biking in Copenhagen. Flickr/Mikael Colville Andersen
  • climate policy
  • forest restoration
  • landscape restoration
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Making Food Production and Land Use More Sustainable Could Yield $2.3 Trillion in Economic Benefits

  • deforestation
  • degraded land
  • economic valuation
  • food
  • forest products
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • landscape restoration
Harvesting oil palm in Indonesia. Photo by Aul Rah/Flickr
  • deforestation
  • degraded land
  • economic valuation
  • food
  • forest products
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • landscape restoration
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Aligning Ambitions: The Case for Including Restoration Targets in Climate Goals

  • climate change
  • deforestation
  • forest restoration
  • forests
  • landscape restoration
Tree-planting in the Lake Abaya watershed of Southern Ethiopia (Photo by Aaron Minnick/WRI)
  • climate change
  • deforestation
  • forest restoration
  • forests
  • landscape restoration
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On Being a Researcher: A Struggle to Differentiate Between Assumption and Reality

  • landscape restoration
  • peatland
  • Life at WRI Indonesia
  • landscape restoration
  • peatland
  • Life at WRI Indonesia

We’ve Woken Up to Plastic Waste. Is Food Waste Next?

  • creating a sustainable food future
  • food
  • food loss
  • food security
  • food waste
Rotten fruits.
  • creating a sustainable food future
  • food
  • food loss
  • food security
  • food waste
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This Flavor-Packed Burger Saves As Many Emissions As Taking 2 Million Cars Off the Road

  • agriculture
  • creating a sustainable food future
  • food
  • food security
  • agriculture
  • creating a sustainable food future
  • food
  • food security

Green vs. Gray Infrastructure: When Nature Is Better than Concrete

  • Forests & Land Use
  • Climate
  • ecosystem services
  • forest
  • forest restoration
  • green infrastructure
  • Rio+20
  • sustainable development goals
  • water
  • Forests & Land Use
  • Climate
  • ecosystem services
  • forest
  • forest restoration
  • green infrastructure
  • Rio+20
  • sustainable development goals
  • water

Good Data could Save Two Million Hectares of Degraded Conservation Areas

  • Climate
  • data
  • degraded land
  • forests
  • landscape restoration
  • restorasi hutan
  • Climate
  • data
  • degraded land
  • forests
  • landscape restoration
  • restorasi hutan

Conserving Forests Could Cut Carbon Emissions As Much As Getting Rid of Every Car on Earth

  • Forests & Land Use
  • Climate
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • deforestation
  • emissions
  • forest restoration
  • forests
  • greenhouse gas emissions
  • landscape restoration
  • peat
  • peatland
  • Forests & Land Use
  • Climate
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • deforestation
  • emissions
  • forest restoration
  • forests
  • greenhouse gas emissions
  • landscape restoration
  • peat
  • peatland

From Tree-Planting Drones to Shade-Grown Tea: Businesses Are Making Money by Reforesting the Planet

  • Climate
  • business
  • climate
  • finance
  • forest restoration
  • forests
  • investment
  • landscape restoration
  • Climate
  • business
  • climate
  • finance
  • forest restoration
  • forests
  • investment
  • landscape restoration