Sentences with phrase «battle against deforestation»

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

Efforts such as these to slow deforestation have delivered some of humanity's few gains in its otherwise lackadaisical battle so far against global warming.

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