forests

Voices from the Field: Source-to-Sea Stories from Around the World

Past event / Join this event at World Water Week to explore lessons learned from applying source-to-sea management in several contexts around the world.

Monitoring offshore environmental impacts of trade

Other publication / This brief explains why its important to monitor the offshore impacts of commodity trade and production, and recommends how G20 countries can help do it better.

Connected Conservation: rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world

Journal article / The paper offers a new conservation model and highlights the need to tackle distant wealth-related drivers of biodiversity loss, while empowering local stewards

Eudaimonia in the Amazon: relational values as a deep leverage point to curb tropical deforestation

Journal article / The study draws on over 70 in-depth interviews in two states of Brazil to understand what has motivated people not to join deforestation activities.

Assessing the value of biodiversity-specific footprinting metrics linked to South American soy trade

Journal article / A biodiversity footprint study of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina found little evidence that metrics accurately reflect deforestation and species loss.

SEI’s Rob Bailis talks to Global Dispatches podcast about new research on cleaner cooking for the climate

Media coverage / Perhaps counterintuitively, some fossil-based cooking fuels are better for climate and health than the biomass fuels used by 2.4 billion people, research shows.

No ‘one size fits all’ heather management method for protecting carbon-rich peatlands

Press release / A major study has provided answers on how to tackle the impacts of climate change and biodiversity losses on carbon-rich peatlands.

To clear or not to clear: unpacking soy farmers’ decision-making on deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado

Journal article / This study explores and analyzes Brazilian soy farmers' perspectives, attitudes, and behavior concerning land-use change.

Report exposes illegal deforestation in Brazilian soy supply chains

Feature / In Brazil, SEI and partners used Trase to show governments, companies and investors the previously unknown links between soy farming and illegal deforestation.