forests Archives

Brazilian beef trade’s links to deforestation revealed by transparency tool

Press release / Demand for Brazilian beef led to the loss of 580 000 hectares of tropical rainforest a year between 2015 and 2017, as revealed by new data published on Trase.

18 September 2019 / About Food and agriculture

Climate change and land

Past event / Welcome to the seminar about the results of the special IPCC report assessment on climate change and land.

02 September 2019 / About Climate policy, Ecosystems and Land use

The Amazon attracts concern of the Arab world

Media coverage / Toby Gardner from SEI told Arab News that the recent Amazon fires were “extremely worrying".

24 August 2019 / About Climate policy and Ecosystems

Truck traveling in the middle of a soybean plantation in R6 or R7 stage

Tracking China’s soy footprint in Brazil

Media coverage

16 April 2019 / About Forests and Supply chains

Criteria for effective zero-deforestation commitments

Journal article / New criteria for judging the likely effectiveness of commitments to keep deforestation out of supply chains.

2 April 2019 / About Business, Forests and Supply chains

Photo of container ship in Hong Kong Harbour

Major new project to address trade challenge

Press release / A new multi-million project will aim to make trade a positive force for both marginalised people and nature conservation.

22 January 2019 / About Business, Ecosystems, Food and agriculture, Forests and Land use

Evaluation of simulated ozone effects in forest ecosystems against biomass damage estimates from fumigation experiments

Journal article / Get our recent paper on improving models to assess the impact of ozone pollution on European forests.

21 November 2018 / About Ecosystems, Forests and Pollution

Improving livelihoods, resilience and climate action

Past event / Welcome to this breakfast seminar with 2018 Right Livelihood Award Laureates Tony Rinaudo and Yacouba Sawadogo, moderated by SEI's Matthew Fielding.

23 November 2018 / About Food and agriculture, Forests, Land use, Mitigation and Wellbeing

Biodiversity and conservation in a time of rapid change

Feature / Climate and biodiversity scientist Professor Camille Parmesan gave the 2018 Gordon Goodman Memorial Lecture. Read more and watch highlights from the lecture.

23 October 2018 / About Climate policy, Ecosystems, Forests and Land use