Sentences with phrase «conservation agreements in»

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With the support of the Commonwealth's Biodiversity Fund, Ivan is putting in place new conservation covenants and agreements, removing stock from 400 hectares, and restricting stock access to a further 1,600 hectares.

One of the leading bodies in conservation and sustainable agriculture, the Rainforest Alliance entreats the Trump Administration to reconsider its stance on the Paris Agreement.

The skipjack population in this area is managed by the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), and in many areas, the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA), which have put in place conservation measures to help prevent overfishing.

As part of their efforts to reach a regional water - sharing agreement, Orland Park officials are also in conversations with nearby municipalities about their water conservation strategy.

Land trusts are typically community - based nonprofit groups that protect land by acquiring the land outright, or by entering into legal agreements called conservation restrictions, where landowners do not give up ownership, but instead agree to reduce the development potential of their land, generally in return for cash payment, tax advantages, or both.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has secured an agreement that holds companies Saint - Gobain and Honeywell responsible for the PFOA contamination in Hoosick Falls and surrounding area.

Governor Cuomo announced earlier this year an unprecedented agreement among 53 New York State agencies, municipal governments, property owners, lake associations, conservation groups, sporting groups and businesses to prevent the introduction and spread of aquatic invasive species in the Adirondack region.

All five elected officials were represented in the litigation against LG and in shaping the settlement agreement announced today by Bradley M. Campbell, a nationally known environmental leader and the President - designate of the Conservation Law Foundation.

Parties in the agreement include Riverkeeper, the State of New York, NYS Office of the Attorney General, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, NYS Department of Health, NYS Department of State, NYS Department of Public Service, Entergy Nuclear Indian Point 2, LLC, Entergy Nuclear Indian Point 3 LLC and Entergy Nuclear Operations.

Erica Ringewald, a spokeswoman for the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation, provided a written statement in response to questions about the termination of the agreement.

Among them: Competitive Power wanted the Department of Environmental Conservation's OK to let it purchase emission credits in New York for a plant it was building in New Jersey — a «reciprocity agreement.»

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has entered an agreement to hold company Taconic responsible for removing the chemical PFOA from water supplies in the Rensselaer County community of Petersburgh.

In the late 1990s, the KeySpan Company (now National Grid) removed the tanks, and, in 2001, it began remediation of the site as per a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Voluntary Cleanup AgreemenIn the late 1990s, the KeySpan Company (now National Grid) removed the tanks, and, in 2001, it began remediation of the site as per a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Voluntary Cleanup Agreemenin 2001, it began remediation of the site as per a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Voluntary Cleanup Agreement.

Until international agreements are in place to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Runge says there may be increasing conflict between conservation, economic development, and the cultural and nutritional needs of indigenous people.

Intensive community - based conservation awareness work has reduced the local hunting pressure in Myanmar, while the implementation of a trans - boundary agreement between China and Myanmar, signed in 2015, has significantly reduced illegal trans - boundary wildlife trade and illegal logging.

Other USDA - related offsets in the hurricane relief request include $ 230 million from the Conservation Stewardship Program, which is widely used by farmers and other landowners, and $ 551 million from potential future agreements under the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP).

In recent decades, however, seed conservation and sharing efforts have been hampered at times by concerns about biopiracy, as nations have negotiated numerous international treaties and agreements that regulate the collection, movement, and equitable use of seeds and other genetic resources.

The findings could inform conservation strategies, including goals set out in the Paris Agreement, in which many countries have committed to reforestation.

There are already international agreements in place that provide cash in exchange for forest conservation projects in developing countries.

Unilever was also a player in palm oil trader Wilmar's recent agreement to adopt a no - deforestation policy, which prohibits its suppliers from establishing plantations on lands with large amounts of carbon — like peat soils — or lands with a high conservation value (ClimateWire, Dec. 8, 2013).

In addition we also measure how many acres we influence — meaning we do not hold the agreement, but another enitity (e.g., provincial or federal governement, or industry (forest company) has demonstrated conservation action

Honolulu, Hawai'i — The Hawaii Fishermen's Alliance for Conservation and Tradition (HFACT) and the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC) have signed Hawai'i's first intra-industry Memorandum of Agreement dedicated to fishing issues in Hawai'i.

From boutique hotels, eco lodges, game reserves and luxury houseboats to adventure tourism as well as a bespoke tour operating division, the agreement reinforces AccorHotels as a leader in curated one - of - a-kind experiences and resonates with the group's conservation platform with Planet 21.

It is fabulous that the first conservation effort that came into force was in 1937 with the Convention for the Protection of Migratory Birds and Game Mammals - a bilateral agreement between Mexico and the United States of America.

On Thursday at the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona, Spain, WWF and Indonesian authorities announced a political agreement — signed September 18 in the Indonesian capital Jakarata between all 10 governors on the island and four federal ministers — to «agree to save and conserve the ecosystem of Sumatra Island.»

The last session happened to fall on Dec. 12, the day the Paris climate agreement was adopted, and we connected by Skype with participants including Bill McKibben, Bjorn Lomborg, Kelly Levin of the World Resources Institute and M. Sanjayan, the conservation biologist featured here in the past.

The agreement further provides for a community service payment of $ 50,000 to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to be used to promote the conservation, identification and propagation of protected tree species used in the musical instrument industry and the forests where those species are found.

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Zak Smith, a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council focused on marine mammal protection, pointed hopefully to a mention of the totoaba in an agreement last month on marine conservation goals between maritime officials from China and the United States:

'' This offers supporting evidence that the earth's spin rate is currently increasing, in agreement with Laws of Conservation of Angular Momentum due to a reduction in the earth's spin axis Moment of Inertia, that in turn suggests there is a mechanism in the current part of the Donn and Ewing climate cycle that is transferring equatorial ocean water to ice in polar regions.....

McGuinty ceded that his proposals to implement renewables were poorly planned and managed; renewable projects were taken over by deep pocketed oil companies that would foist them on people in notably contentious locations giving wind a bad name, high FITs that did not adjust to market forces over the long term, no comprehensive agreement with neighbours for better power sharing agreements, no power storage strategy, no coordinated conservation or efficiency plan that included distributed generation, CHP, microCHP, automated demand response management, and worst of all there was no options analysis of subsidies to various producers.

Inputs from Climate Advisers, Conservation International, Environmental Defense Fund, Forest Trends, International Emissions Trading Association and The Nature Conservancy regarding views on the guidance referred to in Article 6, paragraph 2 of the Paris Agreement

The fact that the two vastly different systems, namely the meteorological and the astronomical, are in good agreement according to the conservation of angular momentum gives us assurance that both these types of measurements must be accurate.

Rebuilding Trust in REDD + November 11, 15:45 - 16:45 — Fiji Pavilion Forest conservation, and specifically REDD +, is one of the key approaches recognized as having transformative potential for both adaptation and mitigation under the Paris Agreement.

The aviation industry may reach agreement later this year on plans to offset its emissions by investing in United Nations schemes for forest conservation.

Many believe that the momentum gained by including forests in a UN climate agreement will finally push countries to deliver the money needed for forest conservation, but deforestation is a complex socio - political and economic problem that can not be solved by cash alone.

Avoided Deforesattion Partners is pleased to have facilitated a milestone forest - climate policy agreement among prominent U.S. environmental, conservation and development groups in addition to power sector companies and other corporate interests.

In October 2017, Environment for the Americas, the Convention on Migratory Species and the Agreement on the Conservation of African - Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds announced a partnership to increase awareness of the plight of migratory birds around the world.

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

«Along with REDD + in the agreement, we heard a recommitment for government and the private sector to support forest conservation.»

Seven - Eleven Japan Co., Ltd. and Toyota Motor Corporation have concluded a basic agreement for studies on energy conservation and CO2 emissions reduction in convenience store distribution and operation.

In 2012 the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and DEP signed a groundbreaking agreement to reduce combined sewer overflows using a hybrid green and gray infrastructure approach.

The Trump Administration «s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, weaken environmental and conservation regulations at home, and signal an intent to cut protections for wildlife abroad raised fears that important conservation programs and grants that benefit rainforests will be reduced or eliminated when they come up for renewal in 2018.

Friday 28 October, Hobart, Australia: The Antarctic Ocean Alliance applauds the momentous agreement by Members of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) to safeguard 1.55 million km2 of the Ross Sea in the Southern Ocean.

The Pelly Amendment authorizes the president to impose trade sanctions against another country for «diminishing the effectiveness» of conservation agreements: In Iceland's case, the International Whaling Commission, which bans commercial whaling, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which prohibits international commercial trade in whale productIn Iceland's case, the International Whaling Commission, which bans commercial whaling, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which prohibits international commercial trade in whale productin Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which prohibits international commercial trade in whale productin whale products.

The fight over wolf management in Western states took another twist Saturday when a federal judge in Montana denied an agreement between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and 10 conservation groups that would have removed endangered species protections for wolves in Montana and Idaho.

Via BBC More on Animal Conservation Mass Grave Containing Rare Animals (Tigers, Lions, Leopards, etc) Discovered at Chinese Zoo Chinese Zoo Accused of Letting 11 Rare Siberian Tigers Starve to Death 170 Million Acres of Boreal Forest Saved in Major Historic Agreement!

Voluntary conservation agreements, federal financial and technical assistance and other partnership incentives can play a key role in this effort.

WCS has signed cooperation agreements with GoSS and the its Ministry of Environment, Wildlife Conservation, and Tourism to launch a conservation strategy to safeguard the region's wildlife and lands, which may now rank among the richesConservation, and Tourism to launch a conservation strategy to safeguard the region's wildlife and lands, which may now rank among the richesconservation strategy to safeguard the region's wildlife and lands, which may now rank among the richest in Africa.

Mongabay is reporting that Indonesia is availing itself of the program, having $ 30 million in debt forgiven in exchange for increased forest protection in Sumatra: This is the largest debt relief for conservation agreement ever reached, and the first time Indonesia has participated in the US program (in fact, they weren't even listed on the eligible countries last I checked...).