5/5 Grateful for the collaboration of an incredible team: @lianpinkoh , @aakash_lamba , @adrdwiputra, @yiwen1987 , and others (not on Twitter)!.#Agroforestry #ClimateAction #Sustainability #LandUsePolicy #ClimateChange #NaturalClimateSolutions #NatureBasedSolutions #NbS.

4/5 Tailoring agroforestry to local socio-ecological contexts is key to unlocking its full potential, helping Southeast Asia make significant progress toward its climate goals.

3/5 Using causal inference, we found that agroforestry led to a net reduction in deforestation—avoiding 250,319 ha/year or 58.8 Mt CO₂e annually in Southeast Asia.

2/5 Our study reveals that agroforestry not only boosts ecological and socio-economic outcomes, but it also offers substantial climate mitigation benefits at a landscape scale.

1/5 Excited to share our latest research paper in @naturesustainab on how agroforestry reduces deforestation in Southeast Asia! 🌳🌳 .

RT @geolidf: Out in @ScienceAdvances we show the competing controls of glaciers, precipitation, and vegetation on high-mountain fluvial sed….

RT @OneEarth_CP: Meet the Mangrove Restoration Tracker Tool from Gatt & colleagues: a global collaboration to track restoration efforts fro….

RT @xiangzLuo: We are looking for two 3yr postdocs to join us @NUSgeog! One will work on tropical vegetation monitoring using phenocam, sap….

Honoured to see our HFLD research featured by #Indigenous leaders Fermin Chimatani Tayori & Onel Masardule. They make a powerful case for HFLD areas in #CarbonMarkets - it's about equity & climate justice for #ForestConservation.

RT @QimingZheng2: Hot off the press. I wrote a short piece of book review (Book&Art) on the "Atlas of SDGSAT-1 Satellite Nighttime Light Im….

RT @Yasmine_Gatt: 🎉 Exciting news! My paper on the Mangrove Restoration Tracker Tool is published in One Earth🌍! Tool helps practitioners….

RT @PNASNews: Carbon financing systems prioritize protecting forests with historically high levels of deforestation—potentially overlooking….

Big thank you for @lianpinkoh's guidance and co-authors @tvadya @audreytrp Yanyan Cheng! . #ClimateAction #Conservation #CarbonFinance #Deforestation #CarbonCredits #carbonmarkets #CarbonScam #carbonoffsets.

Current carbon finance standards use historical deforestation rates as baselines. This means HFLDs may not receive enough incentives to be protected in the future, despite clear threats. We need to rethink how we protect these regions. 💡💸 [5/5].

Over the next 18 years, HFLDs could lose 2.16 million hectares of forest per year, leading to 585 ± 74 MtCO2e emissions annually. These forests, vital for the planet, are at real risk. 🌍🔥[4/5].

Looking to the future, it’s projected that most contemporary HFLDs will face higher deforestation rates from 2020-2038. In fact, 72 HFLDs are likely (>66% probability) to experience high deforestation. 😟 [3/5].

We tested this assumption. From 2002-2020, HFLDs (n=310) saw a 44% higher deforestation rate compared to their historical baselines. Even worse, 60 HFLDs experienced high deforestation rates (>0.501%), averaging 0.983 ± 0.649%—7.5x higher than their 10-year baseline. 🌲💥 [2/5].

Historically, HFLDs have had low deforestation rates. There is an assumption that these HFLDs do not need additional investment for protection because they have done such a good job at avoiding deforestation so far. But, is that assumption correct? 🤔 [1/5].

📄NEW STUDY from @NUS @NUSCNCS published in @PNASNews: High forest, low deforestation jurisdictions (HFLDs) hold some of the world's last intact forests, crucial for carbon storage & conservation. [0/5].

RT @imperial_pigeon: Our latest study in @CurrentBiology demonstrates that more effective management of recently-established #ProtectedArea….