A new online portal for monitoring, reporting and verifying carbon emissions allows researchers and practitioners to better manage forest inventories, its creators say.
The often-claimed environmental and social benefits of forest certification remain to be empirically evaluated. Despite numerous publications on the impacts of tropical forest certification, virtually all are based on secondary sources of information a…
Trade treaties may be one tool for addressing illegal logging, but they are no substitute for effective forest-management policy in exporting countries, says Pablo Pacheco, a scientist with the Center for International Forestry Research.
