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OpenForests & ARARA: The Digital MRV Blueprint for Amazon Restoration Finance

The Challenge: Restoring the Amazon The Amazon rainforest plays a critical role in global climate regulation, but it is under threat from deforestation, leading to devastating consequences such as droughts, fires, and climate instability. Smallholder farmers and Indigenous stewards are...

November 26, 2025

Launch of Carbon Ecosystem MVP Implementation in Querétaro, Mexico

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Launch of Carbon Ecosystem MVP Implementation in Querétaro, Mexico

New Initiative that Sets a Global Standard? and environmental organizations including Siemens, the Secretariat of Sustainable Development (SEDESU) of Querétaro, Estainium, Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda (GESG), OpenForests, and Callirius have moved from strategic planning to active implementation of the Carbon...

April 23, 2024

Alexander Watson’s Interview on WoBistDude

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Alexander Watson’s Interview on WoBistDude

Interview with Alexander Watson about inspiration, vision, and work This is a transcript of a video interview of WoBistDude with Alexander Watson who is one of the founders and CEO of OpenForests. They discuss the work that OpenForests does to...

February 7, 2020

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OpenForests Team Meeting in the Alps

Learning and working together in and with nature. Occasionally the entire OpenForests team gathers to work together, exchange, inspire, build strategy, and plan ahead. This time all nine of us met for one week in a small wooden hut in...

July 15, 2019

LANDac Annual International Conference | July 4 – 5, 2019 Muntgebouw Utrecht, the Netherlands

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LANDac Annual International Conference | July 4 – 5, 2019 Muntgebouw Utrecht, the Netherlands

Land governance in transition: How to support transformations that work for people and nature? OpenForests will join the LANDac Annual International Conference “Land governance in transition”. The conference offers a podium for researchers, practitioners and private sector representatives interested in...

June 13, 2019

Global Landscapes Forum, Bonn | June 22 – 23 2019

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Global Landscapes Forum, Bonn | June 22 – 23 2019

OpenForests will join the GLF again. We are looking forward to meeting you there! Write us a message to contact@openforests.com and let us know if you will be at GLF too! During the last GLF in December 2018, we launched...

May 2, 2019

Asia Pacific Forest Week, Korea | 17 – 21 June 2019

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Asia Pacific Forest Week, Korea | 17 – 21 June 2019

Meet OpenForests at the Asia Pacific Forest Week APFW 2019 will be one of the largest and most important forestry gatherings in the Asia-Pacific region in 2019. APFW 2019 will be the fourth Asia-Pacific Forestry Week following events held in...

April 24, 2019

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4th World Congress on Agroforestry

Meet OpenForests at the World Congress on Agroforestry, 20 – 22 May, Montpellier, France. About the congress The Montpellier Fourth World Congress on Agroforestry addresses a wide range of key agroforestry research issues, gather facts and figures from developing and...

April 24, 2019

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OpenForests: About, Vision, and Mission

We are often asked what is the core of our work and what are our goals and vision. In this short article, we want to give the answers. Who we are In 2011, Patrick Ribeiro, Alexander Watson, Stefan Haas have...

April 19, 2019

Publication in United Nations Knowledge Hub

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Publication in United Nations Knowledge Hub

To the publication Explorer Land. Share your story Successful communicators of landscape projects do not tell stories about their projects. They tell the stories through their projects. Every forest landscape project has a great story worth sharing with the world....

April 9, 2019

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OpenForests & ARARA: The Digital MRV Blueprint for Amazon Restoration Finance

Launch of Carbon Ecosystem MVP Implementation in Querétaro, Mexico

Alexander Watson’s Interview on WoBistDude

OpenForests Team Meeting in the Alps

LANDac Annual International Conference | July 4 – 5, 2019 Muntgebouw Utrecht, the Netherlands

Global Landscapes Forum, Bonn | June 22 – 23 2019

Asia Pacific Forest Week, Korea | 17 – 21 June 2019

4th World Congress on Agroforestry

OpenForests: About, Vision, and Mission

Publication in United Nations Knowledge Hub

2025: A year of Hard Truths – and Genuine Hope for Climate and Biodiversity

OpenForests & ARARA: The Digital MRV Blueprint for Amazon Restoration Finance

Tim Christophersen: We’re in a toxic relationship with Nature

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