Sentences with phrase «debate on deforestation»

How this discovery will now shift the controversial debate on deforestation remains to be seen.

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The announcement follows increasing debate on what single «No Deforestation» and «No Exploitation» standard will be adopted by the EU following the successful passage of the palm oil resolution in April 2017.

Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the issue has been debated for many years, and the groups» coming together marks a «very major significant step» in reaching consensus on an approach to avoiding deforestation.

DEFORESTATION is spiking in part of the Brazilian Amazon as the country debates changes to its rules on forest conservation.

The United States and India have little in the way of deforestation that can be avoided, and argue that recognizing only credits from REDD would punish countries that had been reforesting or protecting their forests (for more on the debate over baselining, see Carbon and Avoided Deforestation: the Road to Bali or Climate Change and Forestry: a deforestation that can be avoided, and argue that recognizing only credits from REDD would punish countries that had been reforesting or protecting their forests (for more on the debate over baselining, see Carbon and Avoided Deforestation: the Road to Bali or Climate Change and Forestry: a Deforestation: the Road to Bali or Climate Change and Forestry: a REDD Primer).

Now research shows that paying private forest owners in Uganda reduced deforestation, adding to the debate on the use of monetary incentives in forest conservation.

The debates on REDD are focusing on conversation versus market incentives via credits to avoid deforestation.

But large uncertainties and postulations underlie the debate about the indirect land - use effects of biofuels on tropical deforestation, the critical implication being that use of U.S. farmland for energy crops necessarily causes new land - clearing elsewhere.

Now the researchers plan to apply the methodology to other nations to build up a global evidence base for protected area effectiveness, to «move beyond looking at protected areas as a monolithic concept and clarify how different kinds of protected areas, and different ways of locating them in the landscape, affect deforestation and local human welfare», and to measure the impacts of protected areas on humans that live in neighbouring communities, an issue that is «subject to contentious international debate but for which there is little credible evidence to support the opposing views».