Our Shared Value Platform measures the cross-cutting value for each outcome produced
by ecosystem restoration, and reports on those outcomes in monetary terms.
Not exact matches
After the initial
restoration work is complete, it should be followed
by a program of monitoring and management to assure that it meets its
ecosystem objectives.
The site is also the subject of an anticipated $ 7.7 million Great Lakes Fishery and
Ecosystem Restoration project, focusing on the shoreline and spearheaded
by the Army Corps of Engineers, which expects to fund $ 5 million of the work along with nearly $ 2.7 million from the Park District, officials said.
Our efforts are supported
by the USEPA's Great Lakes
Restoration Initiative (GLRI), the US Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes Fishery and
Ecosystem Restoration (GLFER) program and the IDNR's Illinois Coastal Management Program (ICMP).
The project was funded
by the Great Lakes
Restoration Initiative's SOAR (Synthesis, Observations and Response) Project, the U-M Water Center, the Cooperative Institute for Limnology and
Ecosystems Research and NOAA.
Few funds generated
by the Deepwater Horizon disaster have been allocated as yet to return the Gulf of Mexico's marshes and
ecosystems to a healthier state, leading to «random acts of
restoration»
The findings will be used in part
by the Nature Conservancy to help direct federal funding toward
ecosystem restoration and conservation projects that protect the most people and property, Arkema said.
What's more, when governments and nonprofit organizations try to bring back grasslands, forests, and other
ecosystems destroyed
by agriculture and other human uses, they are often disappointed:
Restoration can take decades.
Her research interests include (1) how pollinators and the pollination services they provide are affected
by global change, (2) the relationship between biodiversity and
ecosystem services, (3) plant - pollinator networks, and (4) pollinator conservation and
restoration.
14.2
by 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal
ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including
by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their
restoration, to achieve healthy and productive oceans
With most of the Channel Islands now managed
by federal agencies or conservation groups, the
restoration of the island
ecosystems has made significant progress.
5:10 p.m. Updated below A spirited discussion has built on Dot Earth and elsewhere in response to the potent weekend Op - Ed article
by Roger Bradbury of Australian National University challenging hopeful visions of coral reef
restoration and calling them «zombie
ecosystems» — the living dead — in a human - dominated world.
Freshwater wetlands are among Earth's most productive
ecosystems, and the
restoration of these environments — especially in temperate and subtropical latitudes — has the potential to offset greenhouse gas emissions
by sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide.
Episode 4:
Restoration — how the earth's natural
ecosystems will be affected
by climate change and how we can use nature to reverse the trend
And policymakers have potentially the greatest opportunity to add tremendous value for society
by investing in basic science, applied R&D, and long - term markets to support and advance CDR systems, from potentially creating an «ARPA - C», to further incentivizing and mandating the monitoring, reporting and verification of different bio-carbon
ecosystem restoration approaches, from «carbon farming» to «forestry.»
By 2020,
ecosystem resilience and the contribution of biodiversity to carbon stocks has been enhanced, through conservation and
restoration, including
restoration of at least 15 per cent of degraded
ecosystems, thereby contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation and to combating desertification which has a benefit of $ 7 for every dollar spent.
By purchasing BEF WRCs ® you are directly contributing to the
restoration of recreational and ecological vitality in critical freshwater
ecosystems.
The
restoration of the Mississippi River Delta and the storage of blue carbon (the carbon captured
by coastal
ecosystems) is of national significance.
Jan developed recommendations to the Puget Sound Partnership on the use of innovative financial mechanisms for the recovery of the Puget Sound
ecosystem, worked with the Puget Sound
Restoration Fund to establish a payments for services pilot for nitrogen removal
by shellfish in Puget Sound, assisted BC Hydro develop performance measures for their long term environmental goal, and led studies evaluating impacts of flow alteration on aquatic
ecosystems for King County.
In October 2013, PT.RMU's application for an
Ecosystem Restoration Concession was approved
by the Minister of Forestry, who granted the rights to 108,255 ha in Katingan for the next 60 years.
«With an alliance of environmental NGOs, universities and private businesses, we're developing the capacity to significantly accelerate funding from markets supporting «Payments for Ecological Services», including carbon credits, wetlands banking, biodiversity banking, etc, and to direct that funding to the best
ecosystem restoration projects as determined
by solid science», he explains.
The public must know, the
ecosystems restoration area is an area that was previously reserved as village forests
by the Ministry of Forestry,» Moeslim said.
«[The
ecosystem restoration program
by APRIL] is a form of greenwashing.