La communauté de Rumah Jeffery, nichée au cœur de la forêt tropicale de Sarawak, en Malaisie vit grâce à la forêt mais ne possède pas de titre foncier bien qu'ils vivent à cet endroit aussi loin que l...

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The European Union should classify Malaysia’s state of Sarawak as high risk under its new anti-deforestation regulation.

Malaysia’s Sarawak state has failed to protect an Indigenous community from a timber company that logged without the community’s consent and seeks to remove them from their land.

L’État malaisien du Sarawak a failli à sa responsabilité de protéger une communauté autochtone contre les activités d’une compagnie forestière sur ses terres ancestrales.

Today, Human Rights Watch sent a letter to André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) President-designate, and Executive Director Ana Toni, outlining priorities ...

Western Australia’s child protection authorities are disproportionately removing children from Aboriginal families and placing them in out-of-home care.

Indonesia has experienced rapid primary forest loss, second only to Brazil in modern history. We examined the fates of Indonesian deforested areas,...

Amid growing concerns about its existing air pollution problem, Turkish authorities have approved the expansion of one of Türkiye’s biggest coal power plants. The decision to greenlight two additional...

An ambitious plan to re-engineer the carbon market could play havoc with net zero goals and raises questions about human rights.

Our organisations’ research showed that carbon projects can badly harm the communities they claim to benefit.

Our organisations’ research showed that carbon projects can badly harm the communities they claim to benefit.

La medida se publicó en el Boletín Oficial. “Se ha hecho un uso abusivo, subjetivo y discrecional del reconocimiento previsto por la ley en cuestión”, se afirmó en el texto

Police arrested the suspect who confessed he shot journalist Chhoeung Chheng due to a personal conflict, which the victim’s editor said was known as an illegal logger in the area. Chheng had written a...

The Council reached a provisional agreement with the European Parliament on a proposed targeted amendment of the EU deforestation regulation, postponing its date of application by 12 months.

Internews’ EJN is offering story grants of USD 1,500 - 2,000 to journalists to produce stories on transnational conservation crimes in the Amazon Region and the threats faced by Indigenous peoples and...

A major carbon offsetting project in Cambodia shows that such initiatives can harm Indigenous people when communities’ effective participation and consent are not ensured.

A major carbon offsetting project in Cambodia shows that such initiatives can harm Indigenous people when communities’ effective participation and consent are not ensured.

The European Union’s landmark anti-deforestation law should require businesses to respect traditional communities’ rights over their territories or risk failing to deliver on its objectives, more than...

Four European development banks have announced they will require a major palm oil company in the Democratic Republic of Congo to take steps to redress human rights abuses recently reported by Human Ri...

Yesterday, a court in Ecuador found Agustín Wachapá, a Shuar indigenous leader who opposes mining in the Ecuadorian Amazon, not guilty of inciting violence. The verdict ends a 17-month ordeal that Wac...

The EUDR requires stringent due diligence that sheds light on long supply chains that often obscure human rights violations. Voluntary pledges cannot substitute for this regulation. Luciana Téllez Chá...

Search and filter all the latest news, prices and analysis for carbon offset markets from Quantum Commodity Intelligence.

Carbon schemes are touted as a way to transfer billions in climate finance to the developing world – but people at the Kariba project in Zimbabwe say most of the profits never arrive