Sentences with phrase «wwf global forest»

This includes work for the BHP Billiton Foundation on the vast Ten Deserts Project — helping Indigenous Australians restore globally significant deserts — and the Great Barrier Reef, and issuing a global forests bond for BHP and a sovereign green bond for Fiji.

We worry that global forests are disappearing.

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

WWF Global Forest and Trade Network North American Annual Meeting June 12 - 14, 2017 - Greensboro, North Carolina, United States Richard Donovan, Andrew Goldberg and Samantha St. Pierre are representing the Rainforest Alliance at the annual meeting.

In 2005 the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, which monitors the state of the world's forests every few years, reported that 13 million hectares of global forests are lost annually, including 6 million hectares of what are described as primary forests - some of the most biologically diverse ecological systems in the world.

After decades of decline, global forests are rebounding, according to a comprehensive study released in May.

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.

Global Forest Watch expects to expand to 21 countries over the next 5 years.

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

Global Forest Watch (GFW), announced yesterday, combines satellite technology with old - fashioned sleuthing to create detailed maps of forests.

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.

Steve Howard, head of the Global Forest Initiative at the Worldwide Fund for Nature, says that governments should increase protection for forests and promote timber certification schemes.

These disparities have led to major doubts about the reliability of global forest area estimates, and to questions about the real contribution made by forests to the global carbon cycle.

This increases current estimates of global forest cover by at least 9 %.

A new estimate of dryland forests suggests that the global forest cover is at least 9 % higher than previously thought.

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.

Global Forest Watch shows palm oil concessions encroach upon Odzala Kokoua National Park in Congo.

This was higher than at any time over the past two years, according to NASA satellite data, analysed by Global Forest Watch.

A Cameroonian company, Safacam, is developing plantations that appear to overlap with two reserves, according to Global Forest Watch.

«In addition to the direct loss of forest, there was a widespread shift of the remaining global forest to a more fragmented condition,» explains Kurt Riitters, a research ecologist and team leader with the U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center and the lead author of a study describing the phenomenon, published in the January 2016 issue of Landscape Ecology.

The rate at which interior forest area was lost was more than three times the rate of global forest area loss.

In The Global Forest, Diana Beresford - Kroeger takes this one step further and argues that trees are the very foundation that all life is reliant upon.

Global Forest Watch (GFW) was developed by dozens of institutions with the help of Google Inc's Earth Engine.

Plants speed up their respiratory metabolism as temperatures rise, leading to a long - held concern that as climate warms the elevated carbon release from a ramped - up metabolism could flip global forests from a long - term carbon sink to a carbon source, further accelerating climate change.

South American rainforests account for nearly half of global forest loss.

Cory Cleveland, a UM professor of terrestrial ecosystem ecology, said that previous research in the wet tropics — where much of global forest productivity occurs — indicates that the increased rainfall that may occur with climate change would cause declines in plant growth.

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.

NOAH (Friends of the Earth Denmark), Biofuelwatch, Econexus, Global Forest Coalition, World Rainforest Movement, Rettet den Regenwald e.V., and Corporate Europe Observatory

WRI's Global Forest Watch initiative uses the most advanced satellite data and crowd - sourced information to track deforestation throughout the world in near - real - time.

According to WRI research, 30 percent of global forest cover has been cleared, while another 20 percent has been degraded.

Hammer also co-founded a platform called Global Forest Watch, which uses satellite images to detect deforestation.

Recently (Oct 7, 2015) I have been reading «The Global Forest: Forty Ways Trees Can Save Us `, by Diana Beresford - Kroeger.

Global Forest Watch offers the latest data, technology and tools that empower people everywhere to better protect forests.

Isis Alvarez, from Colombia and representing the Global Forest Coalition in the WGC, found encouragement for the future outside the walls of the UNFCCC meeting.

And it's easier to focus on fossil fuel smokestacks than figuring out how to manage global forests.

According to Global Forest Watch, the country lost 16.88 million hectares of rainforest between 2001 and 2013, a chunk of forest nearly the size of France.

The World Wide Fund for Nature established the Global Forest and Trade Network 20 years ago to increase and ensure sustainability in the global timber trade.

Be that by restoring global forests as net sinks or restoring the agricultural / pastoral land itself back to a net sink again.

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.

Were global forests to be planted in a bid to absorb this extra carbon, they would take up more than 42 million sq km or 28 % of the planet's land surface.

Unless all global forests are included in a REDD policy, leakage can not be eliminated; however, it can be minimized through careful project design.

According to the Global Forest Watch, Malaysia has the world's highest deforestation rate from 2000 - 2012, having lost over 14 percent of its forest during a dozen years.

With the effects of climate change already being felt from New York City to New Delhi, the fight to keep global forest carbon stocks intact, to improve forest management, and to reforest degraded land is more vital than ever.

But here we are in 2014 with Global Forest Watch at our fingertips an exciting tool that also highlights the complex, global nature of the fight to keep forests intact in a climate - changing world.

... they caution that society should fully quantify direct and indirect GHG emissions associated with energy alternatives and associated consequences prior to making policy commitments that have long - term effects on global forests; for they ominously warn «there is a substantial risk of sacrificing forest integrity and sustainability for maintaining or even increasing energy production with no guarantee to mitigate climate change.»»

But trends now point to a coming regrowth of global forests.

This will bring the global forest community together on a «Sprint to 2020», to help eliminate commodity - driven deforestation.

Forest Trends, a non-profit organization that tracks global forest developments, recommends that the Myanmar Government adopt firm policies to reform the forest sector and scale up the national reforestation policy.