How can banks and investors reduce their risks in the palm oil sector?

How can financial institutions encourage sustainable palm oil production?

These two questions are the starting point for The Palm Oil Financing Handbook,...

GOOD WOOD AND FOREST CONSERVATION

Many will find it strange that WWF, the global conservation organization, would promote timber and logging -- particularly in tropical forests. But the fact is that WWF does support forest...

Between 2000 and 2006, the area harvested for soy and palm oilglobally increased by almost 22 million hectares?an area twice thesize of Cuba. Today this expansion continues unabated, and in manyplaces is occurring at the expense...

This discussion paper is intended to provide an overview to potential policy approaches and positive

incentives for REDD in the post-2012 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In particular, the paper...

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in early 2004 produced a Programme of Work on Protected Areas, in which Parties to the convention are called to assess at least 30 per cent of their parks AND their networks of...

Through its Green Carbon Initiative, WWF is deeply involved in the process of developing a credible and comprehensive standard system for forest carbon projects. We are engaged in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change...

Bonn, May 22, 2008 ? Well planned and managed protected areas can play a key role in reducing poverty, with the relationship strengthened when well-being is measured as more than just income, according to a new analysis by WWF....

Bonn, May 20, 2008 ? Environmental degradation is a key factor turning extreme weather events into natural disasters, a new WWF report has found. WWF is urging governments to create suitable protected areas and to maintaining...

Conservation and development agencies, including WWF, IUCN and the World Bank, are increasingly focusing their efforts at a landscape level. In doing so, they face many challenges including identifying key values or...