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Ecosystems clean water and air, regenerate soils, provide us with food and materials, and more. SEI works at the intersection between human needs and healthy ecosystems to protect human well-being over the long term.

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No green future without securing indigenous peoples’ rights

The government's inability to secure Sámi rights threatens the climate transition in Sweden.

Feature
Governance
Land
30 July 2021
Sweden

Healthy vegetation sits alongside a field scorched by fire in the Amazon rainforest in Rondônia, Brazil.

Tracking the impacts of El Niño drought and fire in human-modified Amazonian forests

A study in PNAS finds that drought and fires led to the death of 2.5 billion plants in a region that represents 1.2% of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.

Journal articles
Climate
Land
20 July 2021
Brazil

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No green future without securing indigenous peoples’ rights

Tracking the impacts of El Niño drought and fire in human-modified Amazonian forests

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Global Resource Initiative: Final recommendations report

Restoration of heather-dominated blanket bog vegetation on grouse moors for biodiversity, carbon storage, greenhouse gas emissions and water regulation: comparing burning to alternative mowing and uncut management

Mapping three decades of changes in the Brazilian savanna native vegetation using Landsat data processed in the Google Earth Engine platform

Rights-based claims in the extractive sector

Why land restoration is key to sustainable prosperity and how to set it on track

How to halt the global decline of lands

Comparing the impact of future cropland expansion on global biodiversity and carbon storage across models and scenarios

Effectiveness of ecotechnologies in agriculture for the recovery and reuse of carbon and nutrients in the Baltic and boreo-temperate regions: a systematic map

Ecological interdependencies and resource competition: the role of information and communication in promoting effective collaboration in complex management situations

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Climate Smart Women Connect: Climate and Gender Justice for Indigenous Women in Asia

From the savannah to the supermarket – new study links consumption to specific biodiversity impacts in the Cerrado

Linking global drivers of agricultural trade to on-the-ground impacts on biodiversity

Consumer markets and companies linked to habitat loss for rare species in Brazil’s savannah: new paper

Climate change and land