Sentences with phrase «down on deforestation»

29 September 2015 Brazil has already slashed its greenhouse - gas emissions more than the entire European Union has, mostly by clamping down on deforestation.

Can vegetarianism cut down on deforestation?

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Deforestation adds more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than the sum total of all cars and trucks on the world's roads... and over 1 billion trees are cut down each year to produce disposable diapers.

By 2013, «recent deforestation» had occurred on just 4 % of the ranches supplying cows to the slaughterhouses, down from 36 % of ranches in 2009.

This move, which the president claims is intended to stop the deforestation of the country's landscape and cut down on the fuel consumption associated with printing, shipping, and delivering the newspapers, may actually be a calculated move to stop the opposition - rich media from reaching subscribers with news of Correa's activities.

More on Amazon deforestation at TreeHugger and Planet Green: Amazon Deforestation Slows Last Year, but 8,147 Square Kilometers Still Chopped Down Amazon: Brazil Considers Extending Permits to Enter the Jungle Help Save the Amazon's Indigenous People Amazon Condoms To Preserve Forests and Reduce Impodeforestation at TreeHugger and Planet Green: Amazon Deforestation Slows Last Year, but 8,147 Square Kilometers Still Chopped Down Amazon: Brazil Considers Extending Permits to Enter the Jungle Help Save the Amazon's Indigenous People Amazon Condoms To Preserve Forests and Reduce ImpoDeforestation Slows Last Year, but 8,147 Square Kilometers Still Chopped Down Amazon: Brazil Considers Extending Permits to Enter the Jungle Help Save the Amazon's Indigenous People Amazon Condoms To Preserve Forests and Reduce Imports in Brazil

The report presented to the United Nations conference suggests that deforestation in Brazil is down 14 percent on the previous year and that this is the lowest deforestation rate since reporting to the UN climate conferences started in 1988.

They thought tropical deforestation, plowing the prairie, cutting down the forest to build suburbs — all that stuff was, on the net, turning plant material into CO2.

Rainforests do contain valuable resources — and it would be good not to cut them all down (or to put pressure on them to be cut down through demanding goods that will initiate deforestation — e.g. palm oil) Good insulation and careful use of fuel is good from a monetary perspective — it keeps the pound in your pocket — put a jumper on if you are cold.

Besides emissions of greenhouse gases, humans are constantly changing their environment which does have an impact (e.g. turning a corn field into an asphalt parking lot or massive deforestation in the world's major tropical rainforests or laying down a carpet of black soot on ice sheets).

From a political perspective, these tax credits have three very powerful constituencies: 1) All taxpayers 2) Major companies looking to reduce their tax burden while doing something good for the environment 3) Landowners, farmers, ranchers, and the forest products industry (these groups will be eligible for tax credits for reforestation or agricultural changes on their own land; organizations such as the National Farmers Union, the American Forest and Paper Association, the National Alliance of Forest Owners, United Steelworkers, and many others have already been advocates for protection of tropical forests and cracking down on illegal logging as a way to level the playing field by ensuring products on the global market don't come from deforestation.)

A few months ago Brazil announced that rates of deforestation in the Amazon increased 3.8 % over the previous year and that it would be taking steps to crack down on illegal logging, land clearing (sometimes by burning) and illegal settlements.

To ensure they are effective, REDD schemes need to prioritise securing indigenous land tenure, clamp down on industrial offenders of illegal logging, and agree real reductions in deforestation — with penalties for failure that bite.