KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new pledge by world leaders to halt deforestation by 2030 is likely to fail unless quickly backed by more funding, transparent monitoring and tough ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's environment minister has dismissed as "inappropriate and unfair" a global plan to end deforestation by 2030, days after her country, home to a third of the world's ...

More than 100 world leaders representing over 85% of the planet's forests committed on Tuesday to ending and reversing deforestation and land degradation by 2030, in the first substantial deal ...

Billed as the final chance to save the planet, the latest UN Climate Change Conference – Cop26 in Glasgow, Scotland – was a momentous event. The aim of this gathering of world leaders, activists and ...

After President Joe Biden entered the US into a global pledge at COP26 to end and reverse deforestation, a top Democrat in the House introduced a bill Wednesday to put financial weight behind Biden's ...

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WWF welcomes the high-level engagement of world leaders at COP27 in the Forests and Climate Leaders Partnership, but warns that a ‘business as usual’ supply-chain roadmap would leave forests, natural ...

Chocolate heavyweights Nestlé, Mars and Ferrero have reportedly given their support to the EU’s upcoming ban on imported goods linked to deforestation. News agency Reuters said it had seen a paper ...