AFP Peatland fire in Suak Puntong Village, Nagan Raya in June 2023. The government was asked to conduct compliance audits on companies holding concessions permits in peat areas after a recent study from the Peat Monitoring NGO found millions of hectares of peatland were vulnerable to burning in this year’s dry season. Titled Beware of…
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One of the secrets for success is more and better investments in data and more data. Listen to David J. Hayes in an exclusive one-on-one interview with eyesonindonesia.David J. Hayes is an American attorney and legal scholar who serves in the Biden Administration as Special Assistant to the President for Climate Policy. Hayes has led the White House work on…
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What is the issue? Forests are a stabilising force for the climate. They regulate ecosystems, protect biodiversity, play an integral part in the carbon cycle, support livelihoods, and supply goods and services that can drive sustainable growth. Forests’ role in climate change is two-fold. They act as both a cause and a solution for greenhouse…
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by the Stanford Law School Lab David J. Hayes eyesonindonesia Amsterdam, July 14th 2023 — Forests provide a critically-important nature-based tool to combat the actual climate crisis. During the coming days and weeks eyesonindonesia is addressing the opportunities to deploy climate-smart forestry practices to remove additional quantities of climate-harming carbon from the atmosphere. The report…
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eyesonindonesia/stanford Amsterdam July 14, 2023—Forests across the globe but of course also across the good old U.S. of A. are major contributors to the fight against climate change, annually removing damaging excess carbon from the atmosphere equivalent to approximately 13 percent of overall U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. According to a new report published today by Stanford…
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To Restore A Destroyed Forest And Even The Animals Have Returned Ilona Baliūnaitė According to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, 129 million hectares of forest, an area almost equivalent in size to South Africa, have been lost from the Earth forever since 1990 due to deforestation. An area roughly the size of the…
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World temperatures are rising because of human activity, and climate change now threatens every aspect of human life. Left unchecked, humans and nature will experience catastrophic warming, with worsening droughts, rising sea levels and mass extinction of species. The world faces a huge challenge, but there are potential solutions. What is climate change? Climate is…
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Games Changes Global Agriculture by Kyle Kling Amsterdam, Aug 16th — With biotech manufacturing set to transform agriculture, investors who want to stay ahead should pay attention to this rapidly evolving space. By 2050, the world’s population is set to increase by more than 35 per cent and reach nine billion. To feed everyone and meet the…
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And its Nexus eyesonindonesia Amsterdam, July 20 2022 — According to the Food And Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), the water, energy and food security nexus, means that food as well as water and energy security are very much linked to one another. Meaning that the actions in any one particular area often can have effects…
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Farmland ownership in the Netherlands is merging preservation and profitability. Watch how farmers and environmentalists are working together to create more sustainable agriculture practices.
