Author: Mike Greenwood

Rio Cautário Project fire management team battles blaze in neighbouring indigenous territory

Fire in Rio Guaporé Indigenous Territory successfully extinguished, during a…

Protecting Central Borneo’s Rainforest and Wildlife

Borneo’s rainforests are a treasure trove of life. From towering…

Building Bridges: The human connection in conservation projects

Working in tropical forest conservation may sound to many as…

Orora Tech helping strengthen Permian Global’s Tropical Forest Fire Management

The integration of the OroraTech Wildfire solution into our continuous…

Improving carbon markets can help finance large-scale climate action; rejecting them outright means the potential is lost

(This article was originally published in The Edge Malaysia Improving…

Misinformation about carbon credits threatens climate change mitigation efforts

(This article was originally published in The Star https://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/letters/2024/07/18/misinformation-about-carbon-credits-threatens-climate-change-mitigation-efforts) Carbon…

Tropical Ecology and Conservation in South East Asia

Welcome to “The Permian Podcast” where we delve into the…

Why Everyone Should Become a Conservationist

In an age where the impact of human activity on…

Fighting fire, a tropical forest conservation imperative:The Katingan Mentaya Project Fire Management and Mitigation Report, 2024

The Katingan Mentaya Project Fire Management and Mitigation Report, 2024…

Managing Land for the Common Good

Interview   Mike: Hello and welcome to the Permian Podcast…

Tropical Ecology

  Mike: Welcome to the Permian Podcast, where we explore…

Permian Global launches open-source software to improve remote sensing analysis of biomass and land-use change

Permian Global has released its in-house developed software for processing…

The Kuamut Rainforest Conservation Project achieves its first Climate, Community and Biodiversity verification

The Kuamut Rainforest Conservation Project has had its first Monitoring…

Blue Carbon

The Permian Podcast Episode six with Marlien Nooren “Blue Carbon”…

Communities and Forest Conservation

The Permian Podcast Episode five with Yani Saloh “Communities and…

A technical response to the research article at the heart of the REDD+ projects controversy

Recent high-profile criticism of REDD+, which claims that more than…

Carbon Credit Vintages

Welcome to another episode of The Permian Podcast. Our guest…

Passive Acoustic Monitoring

Welcome to another episode of The Permian Podcast, where we…

Chasing Harmony: Conservation and Sustainable Development in Local Communities

In the face of increasing environmental challenges, the spotlight is…

Reflections on the record-breaking autumn temperatures

Last week, NOAA, the US climate authority the National Oceanic…

It is not only about the trees

Last year my good friend and colleague Juan Chang gave…

Nature-Based Solutions: Conservation and the Imperative of Monitoring for Climate Impact

The climate crisis is one of the most pressing challenges…

Remote Sensing and Conservation

Welcome back to another episode of “The Permian Podcast”  where…

Why do Indigenous People and Local Communities Play Such a Pivotal Role in Conservation Efforts?

Welcome to The Permian Podcast, where today we explore the…

How to communicate for climate action more effectively?

How to communicate for climate action more effectively? Effective communication…

Uniting for Conservation: Our Collective Responsibility for a Sustainable Future

In a world grappling with unprecedented challenges posed by biodiversity…

How the market is undervaluing older vintage nature-based credits

How the market is undervaluing older vintage nature-based credits And…

Behavior Change in the REDD+ Context: Paving the Path to Sustainable Conservation

Behavior Change in the REDD+ Context: Paving the Path to…

Katingan Mentaya Project, Indonesia’s largest REDD+ initiative, delivering on all 17 SDGs

The Katingan Mentaya Project, a 157,000 ha peatland conservation initiative…

Dr. Sunarto talks about Tiger conservation on the Human’s of Nature podcast

The Youth Geographic Society (YGA) is an upcoming global, student-led…

Demonstrating the value of biodiversity offsetting, especially connectivity between habitats, in two recent studies

Improving opportunities for biodiversity to thrive is one of the…

Co-Designing REDD+ Projects with Local and Indigenous Communities: The Power of FPIC and Its Impact on Lives

Co-Designing REDD+ Projects with Local and Indigenous Communities: The Power…

Resex Rio Cautário is selected for the Amazon Symposium 2030

On September 4th and 5th, the city of Santarém in…

Permian Global’s Yani Saloh speaks in Bilbao at the Innovate4Climate Conference

Innovate4Climate (I4C) is the World Bank Group’s annual global conference…

Why do some degraded tropical forests recover better than others?

Why do some degraded tropical forests recover better than others?…

The Voluntary Carbon Market: A conversation about REDD+ with Permian Global and Adam Nye (Argus)

Ed Rumsey, Managing Partner, and Juan Chang, Head of Technical Operations…

Protecting Forests is Protecting Humanity

On the 17th of September, 2022,  Juan Chang, Head of…

Juan Chang discusses Permian Global’s work from COP27

During COP27 from Egypt, Juan Chang, our Head of Technical…

Can carbon concessions replace logging concessions in Latin America?

  With carbon concessions, profit no longer comes from logging…

Permian Global’s Research Paper Demonstrates Why Longer Historical Analysis Makes Better Projections of Tropical Deforestation

Long-term deforestation trends can emerge as an accumulation of random…

Why John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight Episode on Offsets Was so Disappointing

John Oliver is a brilliant comedian, and his shows typically…

The Importance of Natural Forest Landscapes and How the Voluntary Carbon Market Plays a Vital Role

  Permian Global is a company that was founded out…

Nikkei Asia’s Half Truths and Innuendo Undermine Climate Progress

Courtesy of Verra (Author : Steve Zwick of Bionic Planet)…

Poor Journalism Is Undermining Efforts to Protect Nature and Fight Climate Change

Under the pretext of exposing badly run carbon projects, journalists…

Carbon Credits Are One of a Number of Solutions to Combat Global Warming

No one can be left in any doubt in 2021…

ICE to Host Carbon Credit Auctions for Permian Global, a Leading Developer of Large-Scale Tropical Forest Protection and Restoration Projects

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE), a leading global provider of data,…

How the Katingan Mentaya Project Is Helping to Fight the Climate Crisis

A new report from the United Nations lays out how…

Combatting Tropical Deforestation and Forest Degradation

History will remember 2020 as the year the world slowed…

Intact Forests of the Indo-Pacific – Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Intact Forests of the Indo-Pacific – Cornell Lab of Ornithology…

Permian Global welcomes Dr. Sunarto to the team as Wildlife and Landscape Ecologist

Permian Global is very pleased and excited to announce Dr.…

Protecting Tropical Forest in an Age of COVID-19

Beyond adjusting our lives to accommodate the pandemic, COVID-19 has…