Sentences with phrase «more on deforestation»

More on the Deforestation: New Cattle Pastures Far Bigger Problem Than Soy For Amazon Deforestation Cattle Pastures in Deforested Amazon Now the Size of Iceland Global Shoe Brands May Be Unwittingly Causing Deforestation in the Amazon

More on Deforestation: REDD Forest Protection Scheme Still Missing Key Safeguards as Barcelona Climate Talks Close Jane Goodall on Why She's REDD - Faced: Copenhagen's Big Market - Based Plan to Keep Forests Alive (Video) Developed World Timber Demand Threatens to Undermine REDD Forest Protection Program

More on Deforestation: Amazon Deforestation Increases Malaria Rate by 50 % 10 Countries With Highest Deforestation Rates in the World More Dirty Deforestation: 55 % of Indonesia's Logging Illegal + Cargill's Two Hidden Palm Oil Plantations Deforestation Victory!

More on Deforestation & Malaria: Tropical Deforestation Brings Economic Boom, Followed by Human & Ecological Bust Brazil's Deforestation Increasing Again As Economy Improves Pesticide - Soaked «Wallpaper» Cuts Malaria Exposure, Safer Than Spraying Weedwhacker More Efficient Than DDT When It Comes to Mosquitos

More on Deforestation: Amazon Deforestation Drops 46 % in One Year Deforestation Increased as World Prepared for COP15 Stopping Deforestation, Greening Agriculture Better Than Carbon Capture & Storage: UNEP

More on deforestation: Amazon Deforestation Drops 46 % In One Year Brazil Announces Plan to Slow Amazon Deforestation by 70 % World's Largest Meat Exporter Says No More Amazon Deforestation 10 Countries With the Highest Deforestation Rates in the World

More on Deforestation: More Dirty Deforestation: 55 % of Indonesia's Logging Illegal + Cargill's Two Hidden Palm Oil Plantations Indonesia Suspends Controversial Paper Company's License to Review Environmental Record Eco-Certified Paper Razing Sumatran Orangutan's Rainforest Homes, Displacing Indigenous Peoples

More on Deforestation in the Amazon Brazil Announces Plan to Slow Amazon Deforestation by 70 % How Brazil Cut Deforestation Rates to Record Lows Brazil's Beef & Leather Giants Unite Against Amazon Deforestation

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«Industrial meat and dairy has an outsized impact on the environment — it's a major contributor to deforestation, climate change and water pollution, and it harms our health,» said Dawn Bickett, Greenpeace International's global engagement lead for the Less Is More campaign.

«The challenges we work on are more urgent than ever: climate change, deforestation, systemic poverty and inequality are increasingly intertwined with the way we manage land and produce food and forest products.

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.

From logging, agricultural production and other economic activities, deforestation adds more atmospheric CO2 than the sum total of cars and trucks on the world's roads

«The findings for Niassa National Reserve are particularly encouraging in the African context because deforestation rates on the continent are five times higher than the global average, and many protected areas in Africa are losing a lot more forest.»

Tropical deforestation and climate change are expected to have serious negative effects on most tropical species, but few species have been studied for more than a few years, and they are usually studied in a single site.

«Human influence is so dominant now,» Baker asserts, «that whatever is going to go on in the tropics has much less to do with sea surface temperatures and the earth's orbital parameters and much more to do with deforestation, increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and global warming.»

They estimated the effects of deforestation on 5,000 species and modeled the impact of deforestation on some 10,000 more.

He points to mitigation efforts discussed at Copenhagen, such as REDD (reduced emissions from forest deforestation and forest degradation), which would encourage forest preservation, thereby both helping to put the brakes on carbon dioxide levels and providing more room for many species to move — a plan he calls a «win - win situation.»

The research, published in Nature Geoscience and led by researchers from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the University of Exeter, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, the University of Hawai'i and ETH Zürich, has for the first time shown that increased leaching of carbon from soil, mainly due to deforestation, sewage inputs and increased weathering, has resulted in less carbon being stored on land and more stored in rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries and coastal zones — environments that are together known as the «land - ocean aquatic continuum».

The study's coauthors lay out several policy approaches to making zero - deforestation initiatives more effective, equitable, tailored to local contexts and verifiable on an ongoing basis.

Clearly informed by IPCC and other scientific studies, considerable progress has been made on the key issues of adaptation, avoided deforestation, technology transfers and a more geographically and sectorally balanced Clean Development Mechanism.

In Brazil, which houses 30 percent of the remaining tropical rain forest on Earth, more than 50,000 square miles of rain forest were lost to deforestation between 2000 and 2005.

Even if we consider the impact of environmental degradation on humanity, deforestation has a more significant and immediate impact on local weather, water availability, water quality, and soil erosion than does global climate change from greenhouse gases.

The global thirst for coffee beans has also led us to the outer edges of the earth on a hunt for more farmland, making mass deforestation a huge concern in business.

For more resources visit thisisgeography.co.uk Lesson sequence: 1 - Rainforests introduction 2 - Causes of deforestation in Malaysia 3 - The impact of deforestation in Malaysia 4 - Managing tropical rainforests (ICT lesson) 5 - Sustainable management in tropical rainforests Ecosystems and hot deserts also on the This is Geography shop to be taught alongside this module.

For more resources visit thisisgeography.co.uk Lesson sequence: 1 - Introducing the living world - small scale ecosystems 2 - How change affects ecosystems 3 - Global ecosystems 4 - Rainforests introduction 5 - Causes of deforestation in Malaysia 6 - The impact of deforestation in Malaysia 7 - Managing tropical rainforests (ICT lesson) 8 - Sustainable management in tropical rainforests Hot deserts also on the This is Geography shop to be taught alongside this module.

She focuses on the theme of deforestation, specifically delving into the way it can divide people — the more the outsiders exploit and change the environment, the more indigenous people's ways are judged as lazy and unintelligent.

When it came time for Lulu author Morag Embleton to publish her book Old Knobbley the Oak Tree, she had a dilemma: how could she get her marvelous book to more readers without contributing to deforestation from the printing of her book on paper?

On a chartered boat and sometimes patrol boats, Rabinowitz winds deeper and deeper into the struggles of tigers, which are hemmed in ever more in India and Bangladesh by expanding populations and deforestation and imperiled by the rising Asian trade in tiger parts.

He is correct to put the finger on deforestation (or more correctly land - use change), however one can not brush aside the role of fire.

In the absence of being able to make that policy call at this time on dangerous interference, what we're doing as an interim measure is working bottom up to see how aggressive can we be in finding a pathway to low - carbon power generation from coal, because that accounts for more than 50 percent of emissions; how aggressive can we be in transitioning to a much greater diversity of fuel supply than petroleum, and vehicle technology, and that's 20 percent of emissions; and then what can we do much more rapidly to halt deforestation, which is 20 percent of emissions.

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

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More on Threats Facing the Amazon Half the Amazon Could be Lost by 2050, Says Study No More Amazon Deforestation for Soya, Says McDonald's Amazon River Water Being Stolen and Bottled Abroad

Via Earth Times More on Forests: Canuck Forests Reduce Emissions by 62 Per Cent Submerged Forests to be Harvested in Ghana, Touted As Way to Slow Tropical Deforestation Tropical Forests Better Left Intact As Carbon Sinks Than Converted to Biofuel Plantations

More on Brazil and the environment: Brazil Approves Clearing Forest for Belo Monte Dam Johan Eliasch Fights Back Millionaire Fine for Amazon Deforestation How Brazil Cut Deforestation Rates to Record Lows

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

Often when business action is discussed, we focus on commitments only, but even more significant are the efforts by business to engage in fundamental market transformation (such as a commitment to no net deforestation or zero carbon emissions by 2050).

Biomass (or bioenergy) carbon offset projects vary depending on whether they are methane avoidance projects, reducing deforestation, or avoiding fossil fuel use; some projects may deliver more than one of these.

Tropical deforestation is a major cause of climate change; and, unfortunately, Latin America is no stranger to this issue — more forests have been destroyed in this region than in any other since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted in 1992.

Detailed analyses of publicly available satellite photos show that Brazil has reduced deforestation in the Amazon enough over the past five years to lower heat - trapping emissions more than any other country on Earth.

Illegal deforestation takes on many forms around the world, and according to new research released today by Ecosystem Marketplace publisher Forest Trends it is more rampant than previously understood.

The observed global greening has occurred in spite of all the many real and imagined assaults on Earth's vegetation that have occurred over the past several decades, including wildfires, disease, pest outbreaks, deforestation, and climatic changes in temperature and precipitation, more than compensating for any of the negative effects these phenomena may have had on the global biosphere.

Global deforestation is responsible for about 15 percent of the world's carbon emissions, and clearing will go on until we make forests more valuable alive than dead.

Those recommendations are exhaustive, but the gist is that the UNFCCC needs to put more emphasis on the drivers of deforestation.

More than 200 companies have committed to set emissions - reduction targets based on what the science says is necessary to prevent the worst effects of climate change, nearly 600 are working toward deforestation - free supply chains, and 84 have committed to source 100 percent renewable energy.

In a press conference held on Tuesday, environment minister José Sarney Filho said the reduction showed Brazil had regained control over deforestation in the Amazon as a result of more effective enforcement of the law.

The code includes an amnesty programme for illegal deforestation that occurred before 2008 on «small properties» in a move environmentalists warned would make illegal deforestation more culturally acceptable.

A new paper argues that he «industrialization» of deforestation provides environmental lobby groups with identifiable targets that may be more responsive to pressure on environmental concerns than tens of millions of impoverished rural farmers.

A major development was the decision at the 2007 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) talks in Bali, Indonesia, to recognize forest conservation as a means for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, which accounts for roughly one - fifth of emissions — more than the entire transportation sector.