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The International Council of Forest & Paper Associations (ICFPA) presented its biennial Sustainability Progress report at its CEOs Roundtable in Amsterdam on May 26. The 2023 report demonstrates progress in seven key areas of sustainability and highlights the role the forest sector can play in helping meet global climate goals.
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In 2019, Australian skies glowed crimson in one of the country’s worst recorded fire seasons. The infernos blackened some 190,000 square kilometers of land, killing dozens of people along with an estimated 1 billion animals and destroying thousands of structures.
On New Year’s Eve 2018, an arsonist started a fire in Betty’s Bay, a small town in South Africa’s Western Cape province.
On a summer day several years ago, Fabrice Lambert, a climatologist at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, met one of his colleagues in Quinta Normal, a 35-hectare public park in central Santiago.
In September each year, South Africa's Gauteng province turns purple.
If a tree falls in the forest, will another replace it?
Of the roughly 3 million square kilometers of forest lost worldwide from 2001 to 2015, a new analysis suggests that 27 percent of that loss was permanent — the result of land being converted for industrial agriculture to meet global demand for products such as soy, timber, beef and palm oil.
