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Cool Earth partnerships are all set up to stop one thing: the deforestation threatening the Amazon and all the rest of the world’s rainforest

Thanks to our supporters, Cool Earth can address the causes of deforestation rather than the symptoms: the poverty, the lack…

Healthy Family, Healthy Forest

Representatives of six African nations, alongside countries from the EU, the World Bank, and specialised UN agencies, have announced an…

An international effort to save forest in the Congo

The Paris Climate Change Agreement has been reported as a breakthrough in tackling climate change. But China is not committed…

Protecting tropical forests is the only answer to the climate challenge

Cool Earth’s partnerships with indigenous villages have proved that community led conservation works in Peru, The Congo, and Papua New…

Cool Earth and the Commonwealth

The monster El Nino in the Pacific is inflicting a severe drought on Papua New Guinea and elsewhere in the Pacific and…

El Nino and the rainforest

One of the world’s leading climate scientists has said today that the permafrost, the frozen earth that hides under 25%…

Permafrost is warming at an ‘unbelievable’ rate

Last week, the 193 member states of the United Nations met to discuss 17 goals for sustainable development, to be…

Cool Earth and the Sustainable Development Goals

5.2 million hectares of land in Papua New Guinea has been handed over to loggers. In 1996 the government developed…

The illegal land grab in Papua New Guinea

Poverty, corruption, and global consumption are creating a perfect storm in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea.

The Perfect Conditions for Deforestation

Without immediate action, 170 million hectares of at-risk forest will be destroyed in the next 15 years.

Deforestation Fronts: Fighting to save our Remaining Rainforest