International Conservation & Development

“We think Africans in rural areas should have the same quality of power as Africans in urban areas, and that should be the same quality power as everywhere else in the world,” Orosz says.

Vietnam has adopted a national Payment for Forest Environmental Services (PES) policy, which while primarily paying individual households for forest protection, has been flexible enough to allow for collective PES models to also arise.

Protected areas are essential to conserving biodiversity, yet changing climatic conditions challenge their efficacy. For example, novel and disappearing climates within the protected area network indicate that extant species may not have suitable climate in protected areas in the future.

Foreign Policy's second annual Climate Summit focuses on The Transition to Net Zero | Making Good on COP26 Commitments. Kimberly Marion Suiseeya will present on Fostering a Just Transition - Ensuring Marginalized Communities Have a Seat at the Table.

“Countries are bringing the ongoing battles of UNFCCC into this space,” said Doreen Stabinsky. “It is unavoidable, of course, and unfortunately could be really destructive to the credibility" of IPCC proceedings.

To continue to lift its population out of poverty, India should give its energy ministries a new mandate—moving the country away from coal and toward a more sustainable economy.

“I was initially pretty skeptical of the entire idea [of pivoting to fertilizer],” Kevin Kung says. “I didn’t think it was feasible. But the local team really proved me wrong and has validated the improved yield and the impact on farmers. For me, it’s been an inspiring journey.”

Community-based hydropower — such as pico, micro, and mini hydro — has provided socio-economic and environmental benefits to thousands of off-grid communities in the Asia Pacific, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, long before central grids have reached them. Dipti Vaghela was recently interviewed by International Rivers on key aspects of community-scale micro hydropower (MHP).