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<span class="subtitle" data-astro-cid-ji7necr6>Mobilizing Science-based Action for Critical Tropical Forest Biomes</span></h1> </div> </div> </section> <section class="grid topic__intro" data-astro-cid-n7ridogy> <div class="topic__body" data-pagefind-body data-astro-cid-n7ridogy> <p>Over <a href="https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/99d1c31d-9a67-58a5-ae21-c16b787aaa82">1.6 billion people depend on forests for food or fuel</a>, and approximately 70 million people worldwide - including many Indigenous communities - call forests home. Yet, forest biomes around the world are facing critical tipping points as a result of deforestation, degradation, and criminality.</p><p>The SDSN works to ensure science-based policymaking and solutions design for critical forest biomes across the world鈥攊ncluding the Amazon, the Congo Basin, Borneo, and Southeast Asia鈥攂y highlighting science and data-based recommendations and encouraging technological innovation, combined with Indigenous and local knowledge, to guide decision-making and conservation efforts.</p> </div> </section> <div class="grid" data-astro-cid-n2gecrmi> <div class="programs grid__feature" data-astro-cid-n2gecrmi> <div class="program__card" data-astro-cid-n2gecrmi> <div class="program__media" data-astro-cid-n2gecrmi> <img src="https://cdn.sanity.io/images/2vr51r08/production/9b22d3b7a6a83c96c98e682fdf9493dd4d1b487c-5464x3640.jpg?rect=912,0,3640,3640&w=325&h=325&auto=format" alt="" height="325" width="325" loading="lazy" node="[object Object]" height="325" width="325" 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