Sentences with phrase «global forest resources»

Its work includes the publication of the Global Forest Resources Assessment as a contribution to knowledge on the state of the world's forests.

Estimates made for Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010 (FRA 2015) show that the world's forests and other wooded lands store more than 485 gigatonnes (1 Gt = 1 billion tonnes) of carbon, 260 Gt in the biomass (53 percent), 37 Gt in dead wood and litter (8 percent) and 189 Gt in soil (39 percent).

Data: Climate Analysis Indicators Tool 2.0, World Resources Institute; Earth Observatory, NASA; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Forest Legality Alliance; Global Canopy Programme; Global Forest Resources Assessment, 2010; Global Forest Watch; Greenpeace; Hansen et al., Science, 15 November 2013; Natural Resources Canada; United States Department of Agriculture; United States Forest Service; World Wildlife Fund.

Ibid.; FAO, Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005 (Rome: 2006), p. 193; WFP, «Haiti,» at www.wfp.org/countries, viewed 10 May 2012.

Rates of Tropical Deforestation Several international groups produce routine estimates of tropical deforestation, most notably the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, which has been producing a global forest resources assessment every five to ten years since the late 1940s.

Globally, deforestation has slowed over the last 10 years, but «wood fuel accounted for about half of the removed wood,» according to the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010, put out by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization earlier this year.

He was a member and past - Chair of the UN-FAO Advisory Group for the Global Forest Resource Assessment.

Not exact matches

Nearly 50 years later, problems like rising global temperatures, melting Arctic sea ice, and the demographics putting pressure on food production and resources like forests, can make you want to scream or bury your head in the sand.

In his previous role as director of the World Resources Institute's Global Forest Programs, he gave technical input into the SDGs in relation to the world's forests.

World Resources Institute - Global Forest Watch Commodities Platform Includes RSPO Concession Maps

«The scarcity of field measurements presents a major roadblock in creating high resolution global maps of plant traits,» said Ethan Butler, co-lead author and postdoctoral associate in the Department of Forest Resources at UMN's College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS).

According to new data from the World Resources Institute's Global Forest Watch initiative, Russia and Canada saw «massive» forest losses inForest Watch initiative, Russia and Canada saw «massive» forest losses inforest losses in 2013.

Resources for the Future will introduce its innovative global Forest Carbon Index on Thursday.

In my paneled session on resource scarcity, I end my 3 - minute «pitch» hoping for not much more than small strides toward putting the problem of global forest sustainability — the pure science of which we all seem to agree is largely done — into the hearts and hands of some of these mind - blowingly successful businessmen and social entrepreneurs.

Satellite images provided by Global Forest Watch, a monitoring service overseen by the World Resources Institute, also found that the Atama concessions overlap with Ntokou - Pikounda.

«Monitoring gross changes in forest cover — both losses and gains — is now not a technical challenge because there are many satellite data providers to choose from, robust methods for imagery interpretation, and increased computing power; what is needed is the global commitment to allocate the resources to get the job done,» says Brown.

Here's a «Your Dot» contribution on forests as resources and reserves from James Fahn, the executive director of the Earth Journalism Network, a growing global network of communicators covering the environment.

SFI is working toward a future where the global forest community has addressed deforestation and illegal logging and given people a sense of pride in purchasing forest products derived from a responsibly managed renewable resource.

A 2016 report from the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), Woods Hole Research Center and the World Resources Institute reported that indigenous peoples and local communities hold at least 54,546 million metric tons of carbon in the tropical forests they live in globally — just under a quarter of the total carbon found above ground in the global tropics.

The Rights and Resources Initiative is a global coalition to advance forest tenure, policy and market reforms.

The forest loss is unusual: according to World Resource Institute's Global Forest Watch, the two protected areas lost a negligible amount of tree cover between 2001 and the end offorest loss is unusual: according to World Resource Institute's Global Forest Watch, the two protected areas lost a negligible amount of tree cover between 2001 and the end ofForest Watch, the two protected areas lost a negligible amount of tree cover between 2001 and the end of 2013.

For more information on Liberia, see other Global Witness reports and briefing documents, available at www.globalwitness.org (3) «Logging Off» September 2002, Page 11, Taylor made — The Pivotal role of Liberia's Forests in Regional Conflict», September 2001, Page 15 (4) For more information on Global Witness's work on Liberia see: «An Architecture of Instability: How the critical link between natural resources and conflict remains unbroken.

They now have the tools to make good on this commitment — a unique partnership of World Resources Institute, Google, and more than 40 other partners have developed Global Forest Watch, an on - line platform providing near real - time mapping of forests around the world.

``... a highly readable and authoritative account of the problems we face from global warming to shrinking water resources, fisheries, forests, etc..

Joint Submission by the Center for Carbon Removal, Conservation International, Environmental Defense Fund, Forest Trends, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, The Nature Conservancy, Rainforest Alliance, Wildlife Conservation Society, and the Woods Hole Research Center, regarding views on APA Item 6: Matters relating to the global stocktake referred to in Article 14 of the Paris Agreement: (a) identification of the sources of input for the global stocktake; and (b) development of the modalities of the global stocktake, in particular the role of the land sector and its potential for enhanced action, including Intact Forest Landscapes

The recently - elected parliament of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the new government, should make wide - ranging changes to how mineral, oil and forest resources are managed, said Global Witness in a new briefing published today.

A time - lapsed map released today by the World Resources Institute using satellite imagery from Global Forest Watch shows how much forest is being lost in Northern Alberta to make way for major industrial operations, mainly to extract oil from the tar sands, also referred to as the oilForest Watch shows how much forest is being lost in Northern Alberta to make way for major industrial operations, mainly to extract oil from the tar sands, also referred to as the oilforest is being lost in Northern Alberta to make way for major industrial operations, mainly to extract oil from the tar sands, also referred to as the oilsands.

At the same time, high prices for metals, fossil fuels, and other industrial resources drove a global search for exploitable reserves, many of which lie in tropical forest countries.

The country set up a REDD + working group in 2009 to participate in global efforts to develop a scheme that compensates developing countries as an incentive to change the way forest resources are used, hopefully curbing carbon emissions.

We explore the problematic intersection between these dynamic processes, their impacts on forests in Lao PDR and Cambodia, and implications for global efforts to manage forest resources and reduce emissions.

Susan Minnemeyer, An Analysis of Access Into Central Africa's Rainforests (Washington, DC: Global Forest Watch and World Resources Institute, 2002).

Patrick has worked on Global Witness's campaigns on conflict resources, notably former Liberian President Charles Taylor's «arms for timber» trade, the minerals trade in Eastern DRC and more recently the Central African Republic, as well as providing strategic direction for Global Witness's work on forest issues, especially challenging industrial scale logging and land grabbing in the tropics.

Some data sets displayed on Global Forest Watch include land and resource rights governed by customary tenure systems but that are not recognized by national laws.

Rachel Carson, who was a quick learner, would be ahead of us in understanding the devastating effects everywhere of still - rocketing population growth combined with consumption of national resources, the thinning of the ozone layer, global warning, the collapse of marine fisheries, and, less directly through foreign trade, the decimation of tropical forests and mass extinction of species.

View Global Forest Watch's ArcGIS Online page to browse for downloadable data, maps, and spatial data resources.

Data: Global Forest Watch; Hansen et al., Science, 15 November 2013; Natural Resources Canada; United States Department of Agriculture; United States Forest Service.

Since forests support not just ecosystems and species that are beautiful for their own sakes and valuable both as resources and as tourist attractions, but also deliver «services» in the form of water management and global air - conditioning, human settlements will soon feel their loss.

David Young, a forest campaigner at Global Witness said, «Forests are different from other resources because people live in them and are completely reliant on them.

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