Sep 15, 2025 | Climate Science
Planting trees is widely recognised as an important form of climate mitigation. Indeed, healthy forests store more carbon than they release into the atmosphere by sequestering (storing) it in tree trunks, root systems, and the soil, and are thus a net carbon sink [1]....
Jun 25, 2025 | Climate Justice, Energy
Indonesia is home to the largest nickel reserves in the world. In 2023, 54% of global mined nickel production came from the country, and the figure is predicted to reach 80% by 2040 [1, 2]. Previously used primarily in alloys like stainless steel, the recent...
Mar 6, 2023 | Biodiversity
Tropical Rainforests and Climate Change Over the past 50 years, climate change has become an increasingly important issue and is recognized as a major threat to our future. Climate change is defined as a significant change in global and regional climate patterns...
Feb 13, 2023 | EU - Policies
Note from the Editors: On the 6th of December 2022, MEPs reached a preliminary agreement with the EU governments (during what is known as a “trialogue”) on this law. Parliament and Council still need to formally approve the agreement. Once published in the...
Apr 25, 2022 | EU - Current Affairs
Deforestation Regulation Rapporteur Christophe Hansen (EPP) began by thanking the commission for the proposal on halting deforestation and stressed the importance of forests in combating climate change, as they are the lungs of our planet. He also emphasized the...
