Sentences with phrase «climate emissions from deforestation»

When taking a birds - eye view of the three major tropical rainforests in the world, Southeast Asia's rainforests, and those found in Indonesia in particular, are ground zero for biodiversity loss, exploitation of forest peoples, and climate emissions from deforestation.

Not exact matches

So far, climate change policies on the tropics have effectively been focusing on reducing carbon emissions from deforestation only, not accounting for emissions coming from forest degradation.

Oceans play a key role in mitigating climate change, in part because they absorb about 25 % of global carbon - dioxide emissions from fossil - fuel burning and deforestation, he said.

Brazil is likely to use the results to seek a bigger role in climate negotiations, especially as regards Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD).

Implementing key policies and investments in those three systems — from phasing out fossil fuels to stopping deforestation to ramping up energy efficiency — could deliver at least half of the emissions cuts needed by 2030 to lower the risk of dangerous climate change, said Jeremy Oppenheim, the report's program director.

The researchers further recommend that, given that many human influences are driving both climate change and biodiversity loss, conservationists should aim for win - win solutions such as the United Nations program REDD + (an extension of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation programme)-- an initiative that protects forests while also creating benefits for local communities and biodiversity.

Last December's Paris agreement on climate change introduced national commitments from 2020 to limit emissions from power generation, land transport and deforestation.

Last December's Paris deal on climate change agreed national limits on emissions from power generation, land transport and deforestation from 2020.

«(A) the technical capacity to monitor, measure, report, and verify forest carbon fluxes for all significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation with an acceptable level of uncertainty, as determined taking into account relevant internationally accepted methodologies, such as those established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;

«(1) as part of a global effort to mitigate climate change, it is in the national interest of the United States to assist developing countries to reduce and ultimately halt emissions from deforestation;

Around 15 % of the global carbon dioxide emissions that cause climate change come from deforestation, and much of that occurs in the Amazon.

In a recent comment article in Nature, leading climate scientists identified achieving zero emissions from land - use changes and deforestation as one of six milestones that must be met within the next three years if we are to meet the goals set out in the Paris Agreement.

Nearly 15 % of the global carbon dioxide emissions that cause climate change come from deforestation, much of which occurs in the Brazilian Amazon.

Comprehensive efforts to constrain the impacts of climate change will require significant global cooperation to reduce GHG emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.

The Senior ECPA Fellows Program seeks to facilitate the transfer of knowledge between the U.S. and Latin America in innovative solutions and technologies related to the areas of clean energy, sustainable urban development, climate change adaptation, and reducing emission from deforestation.

Rather, conserving Amazonian forests both reduces the carbon dioxide flux from deforestation, which contributes up to a fifth of global emissions, and also increases the resilience of the forest to climate change.

The destruction of tropical forests around the world is one of the largest sources of emissions contributing to climate change, and deforestation rates in Peru doubled in 2012 from the previous year, accounting for nearly half its annual greenhouse gas emissions.

The idea of paying people in the developing world to preserve their forests (known in climate jargon as a global framework to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, or REDD) represents a paradigm shift.

The elements that I believe are key to a successful agreement in Copenhagen include: • Strong targets and timetables from industrialized countries and differentiated but binding commitments from developing countries that put the entire world under a system with one commitment: to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants that cause the climate crisis; • The inclusion of deforestation, which alone accounts for twenty percent of the emissions that cause global warming; • The addition of sinks including those from soils, principally from farmlands and grazing lands with appropriate methodologies and accounting.

Peer reviewed report provides the most comprehensive picture of deforestation's toll on critical climate change safeguard; reveals hard - to - measure forest degradation is responsible for nearly 70 percent of emissions from tropical forests.

The «habitat loss» that is killing primates is mostly from tropical deforestation, which also causes 20 percent of the total carbon dioxide emissions contributing to climate change.

The Bali decision sent a signal that the international climate change framework will take on the problem of emissions from deforestation, but the financing mechanism is far from decided.

Currently, the international climate change community is considering how to create incentives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation — or «REDD».

It is one of the main international climate initiatives set up to fund developing country schemes for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD).

One of the most contentious issues in the debate over how to tackle climate change is the role of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) in market - based mitigation strategies.

(05/14/2012) Carbon emissions from deforestation vary greatly depending on whether timber stocks are turned into finished wood products, converted into bioenergy feedstocks, or burned outright, reports a new study published in Nature Climate Change.

The accurate monitoring and reporting of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is essential for countries participating in climate mitigation schemes, such as reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD +)-- a scheme that pays developing countries for the carbon stored in trees and soils.

«With the exception of some international initiatives to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD +), development agencies, governments, and others have failed to give enough weight to the connection between strengthening community forest rights and mitigating climate change,» it says.

It would support climate adaptation, reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and clean technology.

This analytical report aims to demonstrate and illustrate how integrating gender equality principles into REDD + (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries) results in improved sustainability of climate and development outcomes.

Two days later, delegates from these disparate and often contentious groups were hammering out the fine points of the two - page document, which urges Brazil's federal government to reverse its opposition to direct payments from abroad to people and entities that reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), and to involve more stakeholders in the process of forming climate - change policy.

The sub-programme has four key goals: adapting to climate change, mitigating climate change, reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), and enhancing knowledge and communication.

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.

Every standard that harnesses carbon finance to save endangered rainforest and Reduce greenhouse gas Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) is built on these Guidelines, and any agreement forged under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) must adhere to them.

«For the purposes of decreasing the likelihood of catastrophic climate change, preserving tropical forests, building capacity to generate offset credits, and facilitating international action on global warming, the Administrator shall set aside the percentage specified in section 781 of the quantity of emission allowances established under section 721 (a) for each year, to be used to achieve a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in developing countries in accordance with part E.

«(7) any program or mechanism established under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change related to greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation.

Meanwhile, negotiations starting today on SBSTA (Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice) text prepared in June threatens to roll back elements of the subsequent six months of negotiation work on REDD, the part of the proposed new climate treaty intended to reduce the 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and degradation of tropical forests.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is currently investigating ways of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) in developing countries.

«(A) the technical capacity to monitor, measure, report, and verify forest carbon fluxes for all significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation with an acceptable level of uncertainty, as determined taking into account relevant internationally accepted methodologies, such as those established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;

«(1) as part of a global effort to mitigate climate change, it is in the national interest of the United States to assist developing countries to reduce and ultimately halt emissions from deforestation;

Safe water solutions can reduce the number of people boiling water, helping tackle climate change by cutting carbon emissions and protecting forests from deforestation.

Many speakers at COP20 spoke of how deforestation remains a massive driver of climate change with up to 20 % of global emissions coming from deforestation.

Nevertheless the study identifies forests that may be best suited (low population density, unsuitable climate and soils) for «Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation» (REDD) initiatives which compensate countries for preserving forest lands in exchange for carbon credits.

Reducing emissions from deforestation is crucial, both for climate change mitigation and simply because we need to preserve our remaining forests — but expecting carbon markets to do the job can, and does, lead to very problematic outcomes.

Writing in the journal Science, an international team of scientists argue that the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation (RED) initiative, launched in 2005 by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is scientifically and technologically sound, and that political and economic challenges facing the plan can be overcome.

The WMO says the combined causes of this historically unprecedented heat are both natural and human - induced: a strong El Niño − the periodic climate phenomenon in the Pacific − and anthropogenic warming resulting from the rising emissions of greenhouse gases, largely through the burning of fossil fuels, agriculture and deforestation.

A major development was the decision at the 2007 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) talks in Bali, Indonesia, to recognize forest conservation as a means for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, which accounts for roughly one - fifth of emissions — more than the entire transportation sector.

(06/02/2009) Accounting for roughly half of tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2005, Brazil is the most important supply - side player when it comes to developing a climate framework that includes reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD).

At CDP, we are seeing many companies already playing their part through setting emissions reduction targets in line with climate science, committing to using 100 % renewable electricity or working to remove commodity - driven deforestation from supply chains.

Runaway climate change would mean that governments would lose the ability to control future climate change that they would otherwise have through reducing greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion and deforestation.