Sentences with phrase «data on deforestation»

Canadians will have to wait until after the 2015 federal election for data on deforestation by the country's oil and gas industry, The Hill...

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Researchers used remote sensing data from 2005 and 2010 to compare deforestation rates on 240 coffee plots.

Using daily imagery obtained via the MODIS (Moderate - Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) instruments on both NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, and combining that with data collected by the WFI (Wide - Field Imager) sensor on board the China — Brazil Earth Resources, or CBERS, satellite, INPE manages to issue every fortnight an assessment of areas at risk for deforestation.

New analysis of satellite data, reported today in Science, shows that deforestation on the island is hurtling on faster even than a pessimistic projection made by the World Bank 2 years ago.

A 2010 United Nations report said deforestation rates were decreasing, but it turns out that analysis was based in part on unreliable government data.

«To understand the impacts of deforestation and climate change, we need reliable long - term data on the fauna from around the world,» explained Dr. Aide.

When they plugged individual species data for vertebrates that depend on the tropical forest for food and shelter and deforestation patterns from 1970 to 2008 into their model, it projected that 80 — 90 % of extinctions caused by previous rainforest loss are yet to come.

University of Illinois's Daniel Miller, who studies international environmental politics, and two other researchers examined data from 2000 to 2013 on the rates of deforestation across 42 sub-Saharan countries.

In sum, it is an important tool, but the DETER data do not represent the total deforestation rates occurring on a monthly basis in the Brazilian Amazon.

Using a supplier sustainability platform and emissions reductions toolkit, Walmart encourages its suppliers to focus their efforts on what their data tells them are the most important areas: energy, agriculture, waste, packaging, deforestation and product use and design.

To take part in deforestation compensatory schemes and send data to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, nations need an accurate way to measure stored carbon.

The uncertainty, however, is troubling, as is the idea among some negotiators that the REDD puzzle was solved when the UNFCCC parties agreed on the REDD Rulebook the guidance on how to harvest available data on forests to create deforestation levels to be recognized by the UNFCCCœ at last year's Warsaw COP, Saines said.

Both of these studies appear to rely on cherrypicked data from regions with many peculiarities (a little less so in the latter case); it is a huge leap to isolate one particular causative factor out of many possible ones (such as urban development, drainage of swamps, deforestation, etc.) and attribute some climate factor change to that cause.

CDP runs a global disclosure system based on self - reported environmental data in three program areas: Climate Change, Water Management and Deforestation.

The 2 types of data are totally unrelated, and a 20 % uncertainty in the estimate of CO2 change due to Deforestation is unrelated to the error in measurement of CO2 increase in PPM over the years, which is highly accurate based on spectroscopy, and duplicated at many sites over the globe.

This «induced deforestation» hypothesis is based on questionable data and modeling assumptions about available land and yields, rather than on empirical evidence.

The research, conducted by a team of scientists from the University of Tasmania, University of Papua New Guinea, and the Carnegie Institution for Science, is based on analysis of satellite data using Carnegie Landsat Analysis System - lite (CLASlite), a freely available platform for measuring deforestation and forest degradation.

These data are also useful in the study of unusual weather phenomena such as El Niño, the long - term effects of deforestation on our rain forests, and changes in the sea - ice masses around the polar regions.