Sentences with phrase «contributed by deforestation»

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The report also notes that agriculture, along with other factors such as deforestation, contributes to soil erosion, and predicts that if erosion continues unabated yields of some crops could plummet by 17 - 30 % by 2020.

A November 26,2003 New York Times editorial contributed to the spread of the deforestation legend by repeating Mason's statement verbatim and without attribution.

Is it possible to distinguish the CO2 contributed by the thawing of Arctic permafrost from what is attributed to the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation?

-- Twenty - four leading global producers of palm oil as well as commodities traders committed to contribute to the goal of zero net deforestation by 2020 and to work with Governments, private sector partners and indigenous peoples to ensure a sustainable supply chain.

In order to reverse forest loss, Colombia is implementing a series of initiatives to reduce deforestation and stop the huge deforestation hotspots in the country as part of good governance of forest resources and to simultaneously contribute to climate change mitigation by reducing GHG emissions related to this activity.

7 July 2009 If there's any place on the planet that needs to understand the relative advantages of earning money by destroying the rainforest and by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), it's the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, where soybean production has turned the state's capital, Cuiaba, into a boom town — and contributed to deforestation on a grand scale.

What's more, palm oil is now the single largest factor contributing to deforestation in Indonesia, and new research by Friends of the Earth shows that palm oil makes up 20 % of all European biodiesel.

«We've estimated that deforestation due to burning by humans is contributing about one - fifth of the human - caused greenhouse effect — and that percentage could become larger.»

Speaking at the Avoided Deforestation Partners event in Copenhagen, Vilsack said the U.S. would contribute $ 1 billion over three years to a $ 3.5 billion package pledged by Australia, France, Japan, Norway, and the United Kingdom to jump - start a program — known as REDD + — to slow and eventually reverse deforestation inDeforestation Partners event in Copenhagen, Vilsack said the U.S. would contribute $ 1 billion over three years to a $ 3.5 billion package pledged by Australia, France, Japan, Norway, and the United Kingdom to jump - start a program — known as REDD + — to slow and eventually reverse deforestation indeforestation in the tropics.

Many companies that engage in sectors contributing to deforestation and climate change have realized the impact and footprint made by their commodities and supply chains.