Nature-based solutions that use a counterfactual scenario depend heavily on the methodology used to determine the business as usual (BAU) case, i.e., the “baseline.” Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) projects traditio
In 2016, rebels from Colombia's largest insurgent group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, struck a deal with thenational governmentthat ended half a century of armed conflict. During the conflict, the revolutionary forces controlled parts of many protected areas—ecologically sig...
of Congo, home to the second-largesttropical forestin the world, that threatens the country’s forest. In the BrazilianAmazon, between 2005 and 2015, mining significantly increased forest loss up to 70 km beyond mining lease boundaries causing 11,670 square km ofdeforestation(Sonter et al., ...
Between 2002 and 2006, an area of the Amazon Rainforest equivalent in size to the State of South Carolina was completely deforested for the purposes of raising cattle and woodlogging. WikiMatrix Notes the further consideration, under the Bali roadmap, of policy approaches and positive incentives...