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Red Alert: 3 Strategies for Reducing Toxic Ozone Pollution

  • air quality
  • pollution
  • air quality
  • pollution
Insights

3 Charts Explain One of the Most Overlooked Opportunities to Address Climate Change and Poverty

  • air quality
  • climate change
  • pollution
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals
Air conditioning units in Hong Kong. Flickr/Niall Kennedy
  • air quality
  • climate change
  • pollution
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals

What Are the Environmental Costs of Valentine’s Day Flowers?

  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • pollution
  • water stress
  • agriculture
  • climate change
  • pollution
  • water stress

Bad Air to Better Oceans: 6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2018

  • Forests & Land Use
  • Climate
  • air quality
  • climate change
  • forest restoration
  • international climate policy
  • oceans
  • oil and gas
  • Paris Agreement
  • pollution
  • UNFCCC
  • water risk
  • water stress
  • Forests & Land Use
  • Climate
  • air quality
  • climate change
  • forest restoration
  • international climate policy
  • oceans
  • oil and gas
  • Paris Agreement
  • pollution
  • UNFCCC
  • water risk
  • water stress

A One True Map, Not a No-one's Map

  • governance
  • maps
  • governance
  • maps

Destruction of Tropical Peatland Is an Overlooked Source of Emissions

  • agriculture
  • deforestation
  • degraded land
  • Indonesia
  • Mapping
  • maps
  • palm oil
Peat drainage canals, combined with fire, are used to make land more suitable for agriculture. Photo by Nancy Harris/Flickr
  • agriculture
  • deforestation
  • degraded land
  • Indonesia
  • Mapping
  • maps
  • palm oil
Insights

When Could the Paris Agreement Take Effect? Interactive Map Sheds Light

  • climate
  • climate data
  • COP21
  • international climate policy
  • Mapping
  • maps
  • Paris Agreement
  • UNFCCC
The Paris Agreement Tracker enables people to monitor countries’ progress toward ratifying the Paris Agreement, and allows users to create their own combinations for bringing it into force.
  • climate
  • climate data
  • COP21
  • international climate policy
  • Mapping
  • maps
  • Paris Agreement
  • UNFCCC

Linking Products to Places: The Initiatives Working to End Deforestation

  • agriculture
  • business
  • business opportunity
  • business risk
  • corporate sustainability
  • deforestation
  • forests
  • maps
  • palm oil
Harvesting logs in Malaysia. Photo by Wakx/Flickr
  • agriculture
  • business
  • business opportunity
  • business risk
  • corporate sustainability
  • deforestation
  • forests
  • maps
  • palm oil

What Indonesia Doesn’t Know About Peatlands Could Undermine its Climate Goals

  • climate change
  • deforestation
  • emissions
  • forests
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesian Peat Prize
  • maps
  • peat
  • peatland
  • wetlands
Peat swamp forests of the Katingan Peatland Reserve in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by James Anderson/WRI
  • climate change
  • deforestation
  • emissions
  • forests
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesian Peat Prize
  • maps
  • peat
  • peatland
  • wetlands
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Leveraging the Power of the Crowd to Identify Illegal Land and Forest Fires in Indonesia

  • forests
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires
  • maps
Forest fire in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by CIFOR/Flickr.
  • forests
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires
  • maps

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

  • Climate
  • climate
  • climate change
  • climate data
  • deforestation
  • 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
  • Climate
  • climate
  • climate change
  • climate data
  • deforestation
  • forest restoration
  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • maps

Fires Spread Across Indonesia as Parliament Approves Haze Treaty

  • air quality
  • emissions
  • fire
  • forests
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires
  • palm oil
  • pollution
  • timber
Forest fires in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo credit: Billy Gabriel/Flickr
  • air quality
  • emissions
  • fire
  • forests
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires
  • palm oil
  • pollution
  • timber

New Palm Oil Production Maps Mark a Milestone in Transparency

  • deforestation
  • forests
  • maps
  • palm oil
  • transparency
Most palm oil comes from Indonesia and Malaysia. Photo credit: Achmad Rabin Taim/Wikimedia Commons
  • deforestation
  • forests
  • maps
  • palm oil
  • transparency

9 Maps that Explain the World's Forests

  • deforestation
  • forests
  • maps
  • palm oil
Global Forest Watch is an online forest monitoring system created by the World Resources Institute and more than 40 partners. Photo credit: Marco Simola/CIFOR
  • deforestation
  • forests
  • maps
  • palm oil

New High-Resolution Forest Maps Reveal World Loses 50 Soccer Fields of Trees Per Minute

  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • maps
  • monitoring
  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • maps
  • monitoring

New Jakarta Declaration Aims to Strengthen Rights to Environmental Information in Asia

  • Access Initiative
  • access to information
  • access to justice
  • Asia
  • freedom of information
  • governance
  • human rights
  • pollution
The Jakarta Declaration aims to strengthen rights to environmental information in Indonesia, China, Japan, Mongolia, the Philippines, and Thailand. Photo credit: Luca Bruno/Flickr
  • Access Initiative
  • access to information
  • access to justice
  • Asia
  • freedom of information
  • governance
  • human rights
  • pollution