Water // 22.03.22
AidEnvironment builds dams with communities in Ethiopia #WorldWaterDay
This year’s #WorldWaterDay theme ‘Groundwater: Making the Invisible Visible’ – a great opportunity to highlight the potential of this resource!
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Deforestation // 17.03.22
AidEnvironment joins private sector roundtable with NICFI’s satellite data program
The Norway’s International Climate & Forests Initiative (NICFI) Satellite Data Program provides high-resolution satellite imagery of the global tropics to help reduce and reverse tropical forest loss. A key goal of the program is to help advance solutions that reduce pressure on forests from global markets. The virtual roundtable event focused on the post- Glasgow Declaration context, and the role […]
Deforestation // 04.03.22
African oil palm expansion slows, but reputation risks remain
Read our recently published Chain Reaction Research report on palm oil developments in Africa.
Deforestation // 22.02.22
AidEnvironment launches new supply chain transparency report featuring largest commodity companies
On 22 February 2022, AidEnvironment published a Real-time Deforestation Monitoring (RDM) report that sheds light on 21,265 hectares of deforestation and fire events linked to soy traders and meatpackers in the Cerrado biome in Brazil. RDM reports aim to: create awareness on recent deforestation and fire events linked to global commodities’ supply chains; engage commodity producers and traders on real-time deforestation […]
Deforestation // 04.02.22
Four Indonesian pulp and paper companies responsible for 11,000 hectares of forest loss in 2021
Just four pulp and paper companies in Indonesia were responsible for 11,000 hectares of forest clearing during 2021, analysis by AidEnvironment shows. The figure is similar to Indonesia’s 2020’s deforestation figures, when five companies were responsible for 13,000 hectares of forest loss. The four groups clearing the most forest in 2021 were Alas Kusuma, Nusantara Fiber, Moorim Group and PT Hutan Produksi Lestari. Nusantara Fiber and […]
Deforestation // 28.01.22
Deforestation: is there too much focus on palm oil?
While palm oil companies are considered ahead of other sectors in no-deforestation implementation, AidEnvironment uncovered that non-palm deforestation persists in sustainable palm oil supply chains.
Deforestation // 17.12.21
Banking on palm oil in Southeast Asia
A new report by Aidenvironment’s partner Gulzhan Musaeva examines the exploitation of land resources by the palm oil sector and the role of banking institutions in this process. The report focuses on the two leading producing nations of Southeast Asia, Indonesia and Malaysia, and neighbouring Singapore. The biggest local financiers — whose exposure to forest-risk sectors is among the highest in the world — […]
Deforestation // 16.12.21
Uncovering links between deforestation and massive flooding in West Kalimantan
On 29th November 2021, the Teraju Foundation in cooperation with Aidenvironment organised an online panel program that posed the question: “How is massive flooding in West Kalimantan linked to deforestation?” The event was a response to the much-needed dialogue on the cause, impact and prospective solutions to the massive flood in West Kalimantan that occurred in early November 2021. The flood […]
Sector // 16.12.21
Putting food systems thinking into practice
Wageningen University & Research recently published an article on Global Food Security which made use of Aidenvironment’s sector transformation framework. The research shares lessons learned from applying an integrated analytical framework for putting food systems thinking into practice. The research addressed the need for practitioners to better capture the abstract concept of the food system and understand how the transformation process that they […]