Sentences with phrase «by rainforest action»

The campaign, led by the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), says that food giants are failing to ensure the palm oil they source does not drive deforestation or worsen social conflict.

According to a report by Rainforest Action Network, the area «is among the most biodiverse ecosystems ever documented by science.»

The work of 2014 Goldman Prize winner Rudi Putra is featured in a report released by Rainforest Action Network (RAN) earlier this week.

A study by Rainforest Action Network and International Rivers Network calculated that because Waxman - Markey would allow firms to meet their emissions reduction target by purchasing dubious «carbon offsets,» the bill would result in no emissions reductions before 2026 at the earliest.

Not exact matches

The second tactic derives from research done by Food & Water Watch and Rainforest Action Network to uncover the web of international financiers that support the Dakota Access pipeline.

The initiative was founded by Agropalma, DAABON, Greenpeace, WWF, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) in 2014 and remains the initiative that sets the highest benchmark for independently verified and truly responsible palm oil.

No director, officer, employee, or volunteer of the Rainforest Alliance who in good faith reports any action or suspected action taken by or within the Rainforest Alliance that he or she perceives to be illegal, fraudulent, or in violation of any adopted corporate policy shall suffer intimidation, harassment, discrimination or other retaliation or, in the case of employees, adverse employment consequences.

Should any director, officer, employee, or volunteer of the Rainforest Alliance have a concern regarding any action or suspected action taken by or within the Rainforest Alliance that is illegal, fraudulent, or in violation of any adopted corporate policy, that person should immediately submit a complaint (a «Complaint») to the General Counsel.

Avance Coffee Conference October 11 - 12, 2017 - Guatemala City, Guatemala Michelle Deugd, Rainforest Alliance Director of Agriculture, Landscapes and Livelihoods, will be a speaker on Climate Change: Reconciling Global and Local Actions at this conference hosted by the Specialty Coffee Association.

Led by a student «chairman'the team at St Andrews C.E High School for Boys in Worthing have been a shining light in Global Action Plan's sustainability programmes in recent times; as finalists and repeat participants in the Sky Rainforest Rescue Schools Challenge and equally impressive water savers in the Aqua Innovation schools programme.

When provide a little information about the value of rainforest plants as medicine (Seventy percent of the plants identified as having anti-cancer characteristics by the US National Cancer Institute are found only in the tropical rainforest) the rainforests intrinsic value becomes evident and the problems associate with logging and slash and burn agriculture change from a mere statistic read in an article into a visible, experienced, real problem that requires immediate action.

The organization sells cellphone and long distance service plans (you can get free Ben & Jerry ice cream by using their long distance plan) and credit cards, which seems kinda bad, but the good part is that they do it to harness actions that most people would do anyway to donate money to nonprofits (including Greenpeace, Oxfam America, Rainforest Action Network and tons more) that are selected in a yearly vote by their customers.

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 rainfoAction 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 rainfoaction against deforestation — primarily driven by top fashion brands» custom packaging and shopping bags — in Indonesia's rainforests.

Several fears about the new APP commitment were highlighted by Lafcadio Cortesi, a forest activist with the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), whose three - year pulp and paper campaign has led several prominent book publishers to drop APP as a supplier.

The project generated its first credits in June, 2013, after an audit by Imaflora (Instituto de Manejo e Certificação Florestal e Agrícola / Institute for the Management and Certification of Forests and Farms) and the Rainforest Alliance confirmed that protective actions taken by the Surui had been successful.

Patrick McCully, Climate and Energy Program Director of Rainforest Action Network, said, «RAN is pleased to keep its money at a bank that supports sustainable businesses and non-profits and shares our values, unlike the big banks who are fueling the climate crisis by pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into extreme fossil fuels every year.

This is according to analysis by a group of NGOs including the Rainforest Action Network and Sierra Club published in a report titled «Banking on Climate Change 2017,» and realeased last month.

The Financial Times recently reported, «Between January 2014 and September 2017, international banks channeled $ 630 [billion] to the top 120 companies planning to build new coal plants around the world, according to research by campaign groups, including the Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, and Friends of the Earth.»

Joint Submission by the Center for Carbon Removal, Conservation International, Environmental Defense Fund, Forest Trends, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, The Nature Conservancy, Rainforest Alliance, Wildlife Conservation Society, and the Woods Hole Research Center, regarding views on APA Item 6: Matters relating to the global stocktake referred to in Article 14 of the Paris Agreement: (a) identification of the sources of input for the global stocktake; and (b) development of the modalities of the global stocktake, in particular the role of the land sector and its potential for enhanced action, including Intact Forest Landscapes

Amanda Starbuck, the Climate Program Director at Rainforest Action Network, put it this way: «Many big corporations that sell commodities far removed from oil extraction are nonetheless enabling the nightmarish expansion of the tar sands by refusing to purge tar sands oil from their fuel supply chains.

The UN-backed Interim Forest Finance project, which is funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, said immediate action by governments is needed to spur demand for forest offset credits or else efforts to protect the world's rainforests will wither away.

Rainforest Action Network has likened the situations faced by laborers in Indonesia and Malaysia to «modern - day slavery.»

«Coal is Dirty and its affiliate site Coal is Clean are a joint project managed by DeSmog, Rainforest Action Network and Greenpeace USA.

Today's petition is signed by the Center for Biological Diversity, Food & Water Watch, Greenpeace U.S.A., Friends of the Earth U.S.,, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Public Citizen, SustainUS, WildEarth Guardians, Progressive Democrats of America, Rainforest Action Network, Amazon Watch, Corporate Accountability International, Waterkeeper Alliance, Environment America, and hundreds of other national, regional and local groups.

The Rainforest Action Network has announced that Gucci Group — including high fashion houses — Yves Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney and Balenciaga — has pledged to reduce the amount of paper it uses, eliminate fiber from high conservation value forests, and purchase only recycled products — or those certified by the Forest Stewardship Council — by December 2010.

The ad campaign will feature TV ads on CNN, MSNBC, and Comedy Central... The No Tar Sands Oil Campaign is sponsored by an overwhelming number of groups, including Corporate Ethics International, NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and Rainforest Action Network.

San Francisco About Blog Rainforest Action Network campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through education, grassroots organizing and non-violent direct aAction Network campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through education, grassroots organizing and non-violent direct actionaction.