Sentences with phrase «avoiding emissions from deforestation»

Companies that employ this strategy may benefit from payments under REDD, a proposed climate change mitigation mechanism that would pay developing countries for avoiding emissions from deforestation.

(11/09/2009) Norway will provide up to $ 250 million to Guyana as part of the South American country's effort to avoid emissions from deforestation.

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Furthermore, PES is going to play an even bigger role as the international community debates schemes to pay countries for the carbon stored by avoiding deforestation, an approach taken by the U.N. Development Programme called REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developindeforestation, an approach taken by the U.N. Development Programme called REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in DevelopinDeforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries).

For a long time, scientists and economists have hoped to avoid a situation in which the world CO2 emissions [from fossil fuel combustion and deforestation] passes 10 billion metric tons of carbon a year.

I've written quite a bit about whether markets in carbon credits earned by cutting, avoiding or absorbing such emissions — whether from avoided deforestation, tree planting, or leaving oil in the ground — are credible, sensible or doable.

Those payments, however, could be aggregated to fund larger - scale education campaigns, with the payments based in part of estimated emission - reductions from farms or even from avoided deforestation.

Rainforest Rescue of Germany and Ecological Internet have launched a campaign leading to Copenhagen's climate talks in December to ensure carbon based funding for forest protection — called avoided deforestation, or Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)-- remains ecologically and socially rigorous, or does not prdeforestation, or Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)-- remains ecologically and socially rigorous, or does not prDeforestation and Degradation (REDD)-- remains ecologically and socially rigorous, or does not proceed at all.

«(E) development of measurement, monitoring, and verification capacities to enable a country to quantify supplemental emissions reductions and to generate for sale offset credits from reduced or avoided deforestation;

-- The term «supplemental emissions reductions» means greenhouse gas emissions reductions achieved from reduced or avoided deforestation under this part.

Two countries, Indonesia and Brazil, account for more than half of all deforestation and thus have the highest potential for avoiding emissions from clearing forests.

A financial mechanism for including «avoided deforestation», known as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) is up for discussion at the next round of Kyoto talks, in Copenhdeforestation», known as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) is up for discussion at the next round of Kyoto talks, in CopenhDeforestation and Degradation) is up for discussion at the next round of Kyoto talks, in Copenhagen in 2009.

The group, along with other campaigners, argued at the time that «avoided deforestation» would allow developed countries to meet emission reduction requirements without cutting emissions from industrial sources, including power generation, construction, agriculture, and transportation.

Due to this surplus, no land clearing is necessary, resulting in impressive emissions reduction from avoided deforestation.

A system of credits for avoided deforestation, known as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation), will be up for discussion at the next round of Kyoto talks in Copenhdeforestation, known as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation), will be up for discussion at the next round of Kyoto talks in CopenhDeforestation and Degradation), will be up for discussion at the next round of Kyoto talks in Copenhagen in 2009.

The new program - called REDD Plus, for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation - will encourage rich nations to voluntarily finance forest - protecting projects while coordinating that aid to avoid waste and ensure transparency.