Deforestation

Mark Carney meets with Brazil's President Lula, as Canada becomes latest country to boost tropical forest protection funding

Study finds overseas area four times size of Wales is used to produce goods for UK that are at risk of being disrupted by deforestation and habitat destruction

Meant to pay countries for keeping forests standing, the fund has an interim charter, a board, a World Bank home… and insufficient funds

Result hailed as a major boost for Amazon protection and global climate action, as President fights back from first round defeat to claim historic fourth term

Hidden costs of nature-harming subsidies to governments and society up to 12 times larger than the subsidies themselves, study finds

Damning report urges banking sector to strengthen nature safeguarding policies and calls on governments to tighten regulations ahead of COP17 Summit

Right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro secures 47 per cent of the vote to President Lula's 45 per cent in the first round of Brazil’s Presidential Election

WWF warns parts of the Amazon previously considered resilient to climate impacts may now be under growing threat

Neither legal loopholes nor remote satellite algorithms will protect tropical ecosystems on their own, writes Priscillia Moulin from responsible sourcing specialist MosaiX

A report by Global Witness alleges hundreds of banks collectively loaned an estimated $31bn to deforestation-linked companies operating in Indonesia's palm oil sector