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What is El Niño? El Niño is a natural climate pattern that occurs every two to seven years, when unusually warm ocean temperatures in the Pacific disrupt weather systems worldwide. It typically brings prolonged drought to the Amazon, Southeast Asia...

How stronger monitoring systems are supporting efforts across the country to protect and restore carbon-rich peatland landscapes. Peatlands may look like forests or wetlands, but much of their climate value lies below the surface. Their waterlogged...

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) brought together forest countries, donors, and multilateral partners in Nairobi, from 19-21 May 2026, to take stock of REDD+ achievements and remaining gaps and to chart the path...

Indonesia is moving to strengthen one of the most critical — and technically complex — pieces of the emerging forest carbon economy: how project-level carbon activities fit within national climate accounting systems. Known as “nesting,” the issue has...

Between March 31 and April 1, UN-REDD convened more than 60 participants, government officials, practitioners, SMEs, investors, and facilitators, from Asia, Africa, and elsewhere in Hanoi, Vietnam to examine a question increasingly central to climate...

Release of turtles from the protection fenced areas by the community of Côte d’Ivoire. ©FAO / Maryia Kukharava In the south-west of Côte d’Ivoire, coastal and mangrove forests meet the Atlantic Ocean in the San Pedro region - one of Côte d’Ivoire’s...

Forest-based enterprises produce goods and deliver services derived from forest ecosystems and resources while promoting sustainable livelihoods and supporting the sustainable management and long-term ecological integrity of forests. As such, they...