Holiday reading special

The year’s top features, analysis, videos and more

Throughout the year that produced the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate, CIFOR’s research continued to demonstrate how forests contribute across all areas of sustainable development.

Read on for the top picks from Forests News. See the full list of 2015 highlights from CIFOR here.

Sustainable Development Goals? Think forests.

Throughout the year that produced the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate, CIFOR’s research continued to demonstrate how forests contribute across all areas of sustainable development, from climate change mitigation and adaptation, to livelihoods and food security, biodiversity conservation, energy, sustainable agriculture … and the list goes on.

Revisit these research highlights from CIFOR, with the editors’ picks for 2015.

HIGHLIGHTED PUBLICATIONS

The potential of Indonesian mangrove forests for global climate change mitigation

Mangrove deforestation in Indonesia is only 6 percent of its total forest loss, but the country’s 2.9 million hectares of mangroves are such globally significant sinks of carbon that halting deforestation would reduce Indonesia’s total emissions from land use by 10–31 percent. This study concludes that conservation of carbon-rich mangroves in Indonesia should be a high-priority part of strategies to mitigate climate change.

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