Sentences with phrase «developed global forest»

They now have the tools to make good on this commitment — a unique partnership of World Resources Institute, Google, and more than 40 other partners have developed Global Forest Watch, an on - line platform providing near real - time mapping of forests around the world.

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With the launch of SmartWood in 1989, the Rainforest Alliance developed the world's first global forestry certification program and the first to rely on market forces to conserve forests.

REDD will work in one of two ways: either with forest owners» earning credits that they can sell, as with Global Canopy, or by developed countries» contributing to a fund that would in turn pay developing countries to keep their forests intact.

The groups said the United States should make the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of forests in developing nations a central goal of federal climate legislation, as tropical deforestation and other land - use decisions account for about 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

A Cameroonian company, Safacam, is developing plantations that appear to overlap with two reserves, according to Global Forest Watch.

Global Forest Watch (GFW) was developed by dozens of institutions with the help of Google Inc's Earth Engine.

The idea of paying people in the developing world to preserve their forests (known in climate jargon as a global framework to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, or REDD) represents a paradigm shift.

By committing to targets for emissions cuts and financing for developing countries for mitigation, forest protection and adaptation, G8 countries can build trust and confidence and lead the way on global climate action - both for the MEF as well as for the UN negotiations which will culminate in Copenhagen in December.

NUSA DUA, Indonesia: Governments at the United Nations meeting on climate change agreed in principle Friday to a system that would compensate developing countries for protecting their rain forests, a deal that officials described as a nascent but innovative effort to mitigate deforestation and global warming.

Without the safeguard, REDD monies projected to help developing countries protect their remaining forests and reduce the 25 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation, forest degradation and peatland destruction could instead allow industrial - scale logging and replacement of tropical forests with pulp or palm oil plantations.

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In this respect the Commission has proposed to set up the Global Forest Carbon Mechanism that would be a performance - based system for financing reductions in deforestation levels in developing countries.

However, to combat the chronic under - valuing and under - funding of valuable global assets, such as tropical forests, we still need to create global markets that place a price on their beneficial ecosystem services as well as to find mechanisms for paying developing countries and local communities to maintain such assets.

Thus, REDD + has the potential to be the first truly global environmental payment scheme, and to overcome the chronic problem of inadequate forest conservation in developing countries.

The Commission even wrote up a REDD Readiness Preparation Proposal (R - PP) that was accepted by the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), a global non-profit partnership that helps developing countries ready themselves for REDD.

Voluntary commitments to eliminate or reduce deforestation are developing into a powerful framing of global activities to combat deforestation and forest degradation.

«For the purposes of decreasing the likelihood of catastrophic climate change, preserving tropical forests, building capacity to generate offset credits, and facilitating international action on global warming, the Administrator shall set aside the percentage specified in section 781 of the quantity of emission allowances established under section 721 (a) for each year, to be used to achieve a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in developing countries in accordance with part E.

If enforced, regulations that ban forest conversion could provide an effective way to reduce deforestation, but why should a developing country adopt those unilaterally unless somehow compensated for the global benefit provided?

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Early TRL projects focused on establishing long tree - ring records from temperature - sensitive boreal forest locations in North American for studies of global change, using dendrochronologically dated wood, to investigate the value of stable isotope ratios in cellulose as paleo - thermometers and developing the necessary computer software for processing the data.

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1 / CP.15 Outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long - term Cooperative Action under the Convention 2 / CP.15 Copenhagen Accord 3 / CP.15 Amendment to Annex I to the Convention 4 / CP.15 Methodological guidance for activities relating to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries 5 / CP.15 Work of the Consultative Group of Experts on National Communications from Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention 6 / CP.15 Fourth review of the financial mechanism 7 / CP.15 Additional guidance to the Global Environment Facility 8 / CP.15 Capacity - building under the Convention 9 / CP.15 Systematic climate observations 10 / CP.15 Updated training programme for greenhouse gas inventory review experts for the technical review of greenhouse gas inventories from Parties included in Annex I to the Convention 11 / CP.15 Administrative, financial and institutional matters 12 / CP.15 Programme budget for the biennium 2010 - 2011 13 / CP.15 Dates and venues of future sessions

Although a large, global body of literature on climate change and forest dynamics has been developed during the last five decades (3, 6, 9, 11 ⇓ ⇓ — 14), much of this literature provides insights on how trees respond to climate change without sufficient consideration of competition and other factors (43).

The country set up a REDD + working group in 2009 to participate in global efforts to develop a scheme that compensates developing countries as an incentive to change the way forest resources are used, hopefully curbing carbon emissions.

The Logging Roads initiative, launched by Moabi and Global Forest Watch, uses crowdsourcing and tools developed by OpenStreetMap and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) to identify and monitor the spread of logging roads in the Congo Basin.

Malaysia had the world's highest rate of forest loss between 2000 and 2012, according to a new global forest map developed in partnership with Google.

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The Global Biodiversity Outlook 4 (CBD 2014), while finding some improvements in temperate and developed parts of the world and the ongoing enlargement of the protected - area estate, also presented evidence of climate - induced effects on biodiversity; the increased spread of diseases and invasive biota; declines in species living in forests, reefs, and many other habitats; and the conversion of ecosystems supporting many kinds of life to ones with singular human uses.

«American Forests and IKEA have developed a growing environmental partnership based on Global ReLeaf tree planting over almost a decade.

The Forestry Department of FAO has considerable experience in, among others, building capacity in developing countries and in assessing the global status of forests.

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