Indonesia’s National Development Agency (BAPPENAS) and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) have launched videos to explain their strategies to encourage the systematic implementation of growth that is environmentally-friendly and socially-responsible across the Southeast Asian country.

Despite a high-level pledge to combat deforestation and a nationwide moratorium on new logging and plantation concessions, deforestation has continued to rise in Indonesia, according to a new study published in Nature Climate Change.

How do High Conservation Value (HCV) approaches and High Carbon Stock (HCS) assessments for mitigating impacts differ? Gary Paoli suggests they are complementary and should be combined into a single assessment tool.