Cattle, not coca, drive deforestation of the Amazon in Colombia theguardian.com/environment/20…

GGBC is hiring a new project coordinator! Excellent people and place to work - not to mention all the biodiversity connections one could wish for! 💚 Deadline March 15. Spread widely!

Some cool low carbon materials emerging “TimBam” - cross laminated timber-bamboo hybrid Source: Hector Archila linkedin.com/posts/hectorar…

Two 'discourses of climate delay' which are super prevalent right now 1⃣ "The solution is nuclear". The Swiss Govt is pushing this one, via Energy, Climate & Transport Minister Rösti (also a fossil fuel lobbyist and climate denier) & lobby groups are advertising with billboards.

#UBCForestry grad student Lucy Binfield draws on her experience working with bamboo for livelihood development in a recent study on how the use of native bamboo can aid in the environmental recovery of degrading gold mining lands in the Amazon LSE Latin America and Caribbean Centre: bit.ly/3W2AMTm

New forest research🌳Our nature paper finds that global wood harvests could cause 3.5-4.2 billion metric tons of CO2e emissions annually over the next 30 years - a figure that matches the emissions from deforestation due to agricultural expansion🌽

Sharing our World Resources Institute blog explaining the implications of these emissions. Harvesting wood has carbon costs that are often overlooked in research accounting and policy making. wri.org/insights/wood-…

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New report today, using model from recent Nature explains why using more wood in construction likely to increase emissions and requires huge increase in harvesting wood. wri.org/insights/mass-… - Hint, wood is not carbon neutral & only small amount gets into buildings.

Bottom line report (40 years): Ag grows 600 Mha (2x size of India); wood harvest 800 Mha (Cont. U.S.); urban exp. 80 Mha; emissions 11 gigatons per year! Lessons: Consume less land-stuff; produce more same land. DON'T add more wood demand & bioenergy. wri.org/events/2023/7/…

New publication out: Material Requirements of Decent Living Standards Materials are key for Decent Living. Eradicating global poverty will require a material footprint of 7 Pg/yr and 52 Pg stocks pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Great reporting from Andrés Bermúdez L. @bermudezlievano.bsky.social and El CLIP is a really good example of how shady carbon credits (and the carbon neutrality claims they back) can be. elclip.org/juez-suspende-… Headline below is in Spanish, but site has an English version of the article

A great innovation National Structural Code of the Philippines to change to allow Bamboo for social housing. It can lower the cost of housing by 30-40% compared to units built with standard concrete hollow blocks. bworldonline.com/property/2023/…

Escribí esto hace unos meses, cuando Netanyahu consolidó la coalición más radical de la historia de Israel. cambiocolombia.com/puntos-de-vist…

📣 Llega la Primera Edición del Gran Bingo Solidario 🎰🍀 📅 Domingo 3 de diciembre ⏰ 10:00 a.m. 📍 Km 4,5 vía la Calera. Barrio San Isidro Norte de Bogotá - Localidad Usaquén 🎟️ Aporte: 20k por cartón 🌱Más información aquí: fb.me/e/1wQX6GBhv🔥

📍¡La nueva edición de Vogotá Mapa Ⓥ 2024 está en camino y necesitamos tu ayuda desde ya! Buscamos personas que quieran unirse a nuestro colectivo independiente, autogestionado y sin ánimo de lucro. ¡Contáctanos! 🌱 [email protected] linktr.ee/vogotamapav

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El Minvivienda, a través de la asesora de Despacho Paola Gómez, fue invitado al conversatorio de saberes constructivos con guadua y tierra para el desarrollo sostenible de los territorios, que se llevó a cabo en el stand de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia en Agroexpo Colombia.