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This International Women’s Day (INWD2023) we hear from the women across our partnerships on why including women in land and forest use decision making is so important. Gender equality and climate action are interdependent, meaning progress in one area is…

This International Women’s Day 2023 we hear from the women across our partnerships on why including women in land and forest use decision making is so important. Women make up half of the world’s population and are crucial stakeholders in…

This International Women’s Day we hear from the women across our partnerships on why including women in land and forest use decision making is so important. It comes as no surprise that women and girls bear the brunt of the…

Celebrating people coming together for rainforest conservation in Papua New Guinea (PNG).   Did you know that with rainforest loss comes loss of knowledge for communities all over the tropics? The opposite is also true. Loss of…

Working closely with Cool Earth throughout her PhD, University of Exeter student Léna Prouchet’s research looks at refining the design and implementation of agricultural projects supporting Indigenous peoples and their livelihoods as they strive to protect their rainforest territories.

When people living in the rainforest have cash, they have a choice. And for the Awajún, this enabled them to build a chocolate factory in the middle of the rainforest. For anyone in the chocolate making biz, transforming raw…

2022 was a year marked by extreme weather events. Europe saw its hottest summer ever with intense heat waves, droughts and wildfires. In fact, the last 8 years have been the warmest on record globally…

To purchase carbon credits with the suggestion that fossil fuel emissions are somehow offset is making the climate crisis worse. It’s a distraction that benefits business as usual and continues to marginalise people who rely on the rainforest for survival.

in Brazil and across the Amazon