Sentences with phrase «against deforestation»

It is from here that he wages his battle against the deforestation of his homeland.

The commitment of local communities is the best hope for reducing poverty and the greatest defense against this deforestation.

Unless we think beyond traditional forestry, we may win a few battles but lose the war against deforestation and forest degradation.

The Central Africa Forest Initiative (CAFI) aims at fighting against deforestation by protecting the Congo Basin forest cover, the second largest tropical rainforest in the world.

Another good news update in the battle against deforestation in the Amazon: Greenpeace is hailing the announcement by four of the world's largest players in the cattle industry that they have committed to ban purchases of

Her work became established worldwide as an outcry against deforestation and devastation, calling for environmental awareness, as well as a forensic document for massive landscape changes in the Anthropocene Epoch.

The opening night of the GreenShows — the place to be for greenies during New York Fashion Week — provided a platform for Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Tiffany & Co., and model and activist Summer Rayne Oakes to promote action against deforestation — primarily driven by top fashion brands» custom packaging and shopping bags — in Indonesia's rainforests.

By defending their homeland and legally establishing customary ownership of their forests, Nicaragua's Indigenous Peoples can provide a strong bulwark against deforestation and climate change.

Some are collaborating to unite the largest industries in China against deforestation, in efforts such as the China Meat Association and China Soybean Industry Association.

We are socio - environmental organizations and movements, male and female workers in family and peasant agriculture, agroextractivists, members of Quilombola (descendants of runaway slaves) communities, women's organizations, urban grassroots organizations, fishermen and women, students, traditional peoples and communities, and native peoples sharing the struggle against deforestation and for environmental justice in the Amazon and in Brazil at large.

He points to examples elsewhere where courts have successfully changed policy on environmental issues, such as cases against deforestation in the Philippines and a supreme court ruling in India that paved the way for Delhi's buses to switch from diesel to compressed natural gas (CNG) to cut air pollution.

Indonesia considers environmental and climate concerns to be nothing more than economic discrimination, and civil society campaigns against deforestation and industrial plantations to be unfair attacks.

Following the historic election of Brazil's first working - class president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Marina Silva was named the environment minister of South America's largest country, thrusting this former rubber tapper, who was virtually illiterate until her teens, on to the front line of Brazil's battle against deforestation - and of the global fight against climate change.

An ardent defender of the environment, she linked her fight against deforestation, which began in the 1970s, to the fight for democracy and justice, to the defense of human rights and the promotion of equality between men and women.

The place to be for greenies during New York Fashion Week — the GreenShows opened with Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Tiffany & Co., and model and activist Summer Rayne Oakes to promoting a campaign against deforestation — primarily driven by top fashion brands» custom packaging and shopping bags — in Indonesia's rainforests.