New CDE project that aims to identify enabling mechanisms that Swiss policymakers could use to develop and implement a smallholder-friendlier version of the EUDR, a new EU regulation on deforestation-free supply chains.

Pasang Sherpa from Nepal knows from his own experience how important bridges are. He trained as a bridge builder with a Swiss organization and has since been improving lives not only in his home country, but also in Africa. Learn more about the unique friendship of two men that started with the building of bridges.

Die Klimaerwärmung wird verstärkt zu Trockenheit führen. Eine globale Studie mit BFH-Beteiligung untersuchte die Folgen von Dürren für Grasland. Das Ergebnis: Das Pflanzenwachstum nimmt stärker ab als erwartet. Lesen Sie mehr über die weltweiten Entwicklungen.

Reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) projects and programmes promise to deliver performance-based, cost-effective climate change mitigation. Fifteen years after its conception, we analysed the rigorous counterfactual-based evidence for environmental and welfare effects from such national and subnational initiatives, along with a Theory of Change.