Latin American Stories, from Latin American Filmmakers: Solutions Inside Out, Season Two
What happens when skilled visual storytellers and inspiring nonprofits from the same regions come together to document positive change in their communities? As an ongoing collaboration between the Video Consortium and…
How Land Tenure Reform is a Critical Climate Solution
To address the climate crisis and reach sustainable development goals, Indigenous, community, and Afro-descendant land rights must be secure. While communities claim and manage roughly half of the world’s lands—including…
Secure Land Rights: A Sustainable Solution at the Intersection of Climate Change and COVID-19
COVID-19 and climate change are impacting all of us, but the dual disasters have a disproportionate impact on communities in emerging economies. These impacts are felt most acutely in rural…
Blue Carbon: A Pioneering Mangrove Conservation Project in Madagascar
In a remote corner of southwest Madagascar last month, local communities launched the world’s largest mangrove carbon conservation project, sequestering a huge amount of carbon and securing an ecosystem vital…
After the Amazon Fires, What's Next for Stopping Deforestation?
More than 26,000 fires have raged throughout Brazilian Amazon in August alone—the fastest rate of destruction since record keeping began. President Jair Bolsonaro campaigned with a promise to open the…
Saving Rainforests with Indigenous Rights-Based Conservation
Suzanne Pelletier is the Executive Director of the Rainforest Foundation US which partners with indigenous peoples in Central and South America to help them assert their rights and conserve their…
Bloodiest Year on Record (Again) for Environmental Defenders
It was nearly noon on an early December day when the shooting started. The small indigenous community near Lake Sebu in the Philippines had again come under attack. "The soldiers came…
Arresting Tropical Deforestation: Complementary Approaches in the Amazon
In addition to moving from an economy powered predominantly by fossil fuels to one powered by clean energy, an important piece of the climate change mitigation puzzle is arresting deforestation.…
Restoring Common Lands to Enhance Rural Resilience and Mitigate Climate Change
India’s commons—collectively owned land administered by the government—make up as much as 25 percent of the nation's territory. The government legally owns these lands, but lacks the reach, incentive, and…
Our Commitment to Urgent Climate Action
From water resource management and food production, to disease and conflict: climate change exacerbates underlying vulnerabilities. As the severity of these impacts increase over the coming decades, poor communities in…
Record Number of Land and Water Rights Defenders Killed in 2016
Global Witness released a damning report late last week that shows it has never been deadlier to stand up against corporations seizing land and destroying the environment, tallying 200 deaths over the…
Scaling Pathways: Three Case Studies on Impact Growth in Social Enterprise
What does it take to scale social impact? That’s one of the fundamental questions for social entrepreneurs anywhere. As they seek to create solutions to widespread, seemingly intractable problems, such…
Disastrous Effects of Gold Mining in the Amazon
Skoll Awardee Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) just launched a new website called Amazon Gold Rush: Gold Mining in Suriname. The site offers a rich, interactive user experience that tells the story…
Deforestation in the Amazon: Seeing Both the Forest and the Trees
Global forest loss is a complicated and multi-dimensional problem, and the signals of progress (or regression) can be confusing. On the one hand, a recent study by Global Forest Watch…
