Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty reduction, food security, and to make the continent more resilient to climate change. They take up 23% of the continent. At 674 million ...

Despite contributing less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions, Africa is home to nine of the world’s most ...

From the vast Amazon to Siberia’s frozen taiga, Earth’s major forests hold the planet’s largest carbon reserves, silently storing billions of tons that regulate our global climate balance.

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s Amazon Summit closed Wednesday with a roadmap to protect tropical rainforests that was welcomed as an important step in countering climate change, but without the ...

What Africa is asking for is equitable access to the carbon market to enable countries to restore forest and ocean resources, ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo government has opened bids for oil and gas drilling across huge swathes of the country, ...

Tropical forests, vital allies in the fight against climate breakdown, are vanishing at an alarming rate. On Thursday, in a bid to help reverse this trend, Brazil launched a new initiative at a summit ...

The French-led initiative — backed by Germany, Norway, Belgium and Britain — is called “The Belem Call for the Forests of the ...

The campaign from Natura, Forbes and Africa Creative highlights the power of the Amazon’s $317B bioeconomy and that the standing forest is worth seven times more than the potential earnings from its ...

African Development Bank Group President Sidi Ould Tah has reaffirmed the institution's commitment to transforming "promises ...