Sentences with phrase «critical global forest»

As the global extinction rate is already catastrophic and increasing exponentially, forest dependent organisms can not endure this trend, nor will most lifeforms on earth cope with further loss of the critical global forest carbon sink.

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Beyond wildlife concerns, Canada's boreal forest, which stretches from coast to coast, comprises perhaps the world's largest terrestrial storehouse of carbon dioxide, so it is critical to keep it intact to help mitigate global warming.

Furthermore, when researchers analyzed patterns of remaining forest, they found a global loss of interior forest — core areas that, when intact, maintain critical habitat and ecological functions.

Instead of slowing global warming, forests could start to make it worse.Here, Carswell provides the answer to a critical question: Why should we care?

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

This sent a clear message that forest conservation is critical to achieving global climate goals.

Improving transparency of concessions data — the who, what, when and where of commercial activities that drive over 60 % of global deforestation — is critical to preventing forest loss.

Brown, who passed away in February, led arguments in the international negotiations to include forest management and protection as critical tools to combat global climate change.

For more information on Liberia, see other Global Witness reports and briefing documents, available at www.globalwitness.org (3) «Logging Off» September 2002, Page 11, Taylor made — The Pivotal role of Liberia's Forests in Regional Conflict», September 2001, Page 15 (4) For more information on Global Witness's work on Liberia see: «An Architecture of Instability: How the critical link between natural resources and conflict remains unbroken.

Using the power of their music, artists are building awareness of the major environmental, social, and economic impacts of illegal logging that is destroying forests critical to community livelihoods, endangered wildlife, and the stability of our global climate.

Building on decades of experience in the field, the report offers six lessons the authors believe are critical if REDD and REDD + (which includes REDD plus more controversial measures such as sustainable forest management) are going to generate offsets that truly represent emission reductions and that a global carbon regime will accept.

The loss of forests worldwide accounts for roughly 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and forests are critical to regulating the climate, both locally and globally.

Critical to the fall in deforestation was the global financial crisis, which dried up credit for forest - destroying activities and contributed to a crash in commodity prices, an underlying driver of deforestation.

Boreal forests and peat lands — which often include carbon - containing permafrost — play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and therefore in regulating climate change.7, 15

These forests, which cover approximately 250 million hectares — more than California and Texas combined — play a critical role in regulating the global climate.

These communities play a key role in the global challenge of fighting climate change by saving some of the world's most critical remaining forests from destruction.

Because forests play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, the international community is actively pursuing policies and programs to increase the amount of carbon stored in forests.

The Canadian boreal forests, which occupy about 30 % of the boreal forests worldwide and 77 % of Canada's total forested land, play a critical role in the albedo of Earth's surface5 and in its global carbon budget6.

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