Sentences with phrase «driven by deforestation»

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The region's critical deforestation crisis is driven by population growth, unscrupulous timber extraction, and agricultural conversion — resulting in the loss of 9.3 percent of its forest cover from 2001 - 2009 alone.

Through the Consumer Goods Forum, the CDP / We Mean Business Coalition, and the public - private Tropical Forest Alliance 2020, hundreds of major companies have committed to eliminating commodity - driven deforestation from their supply chains by 2020, including companies that account for 90 percent of the global trade in palm oil.

Although overall deforestation rates in the region are still lower than they are in parts of the Amazon and Southeast Asia, deforestation has accelerated over the past few years, driven mainly by the establishment of large - scale agricultural and mining operations.

They also spoke of the challenges presented by their community's heavy reliance on rice, which drives deforestation.

Yet, every day, they're being destroyed by rampant deforestation — and the wildlife who depend on them are being driven to extinction.

Many of those losses were apparently driven by the demand for logging, oil palm, mining, paper, and associated deforestation.

In a report commissioned by US think - tank Center for Global Development (CGD) Martin Persson and colleagues in Linköping, Sweden, and Vienna, Austria, have investigated to which extent international trade in agricultural and silvicultural products drives deforestation in seven case countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea.

Most if not all deforestation is ultimately driven by our consumption, so avoiding products and companies responsible for deforestation is the logical first step.

The new study, published in Nature Communications, explores how this enormous carbon store is being affected by both deforestation and drought - driven wildfires.

Roads spread destruction and deforestation in the Amazon, now Peru, driven by neoliberal imperatives, plans a highway for one of the regions most sensitive forests

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Among their suggestions were the following: expand conservation tillage to 100 percent of cropland, stop all deforestation, drive two billion cars on ethanol, increase wind power 80-fold to make hydrogen for cars, replace 1,400 large coal - fired power plants with gas - fired ones, and cut electricity use in buildings by 25 percent.

The opening night of the GreenShows — the place to be for greenies during New York Fashion Week — provided a platform for Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Tiffany & Co., and model and activist Summer Rayne Oakes to promote action against deforestation — primarily driven by top fashion brands» custom packaging and shopping bags — in Indonesia's rainforests.

Wang and colleagues believe they have assembled by far the most direct evidence that local atmospheric circulations driven by the inhomogeneous land cover due to deforestation in the Amazon basin are responsible for the distributions of clouds.

Deforestation in developing countries is frequently driven by agriculture, logging, and road expansion.

In fact, a report released by Forest Trends this year found that almost three - quarters of deforestation between 2000 and 2012 was caused by commercial agriculture, a significant shift from the timber industry that drove the majority of deforestation in the 20th century.

It does so by directly tackling the poverty - driven causes of deforestation.

The tropical deforestation in Asia is driven primarily by the fast - growing demand for timber.

It turns out that the bulk of tropical deforestation is currently driven by just four commodities: beef cattle, soybeans, palm oil, and wood products.

It also has Indonesia's highest deforestation rate, substantially driven by the operations of global paper giants Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) and Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Limited (APRIL).

We are in the midst of the greatest global effort in history to end tropical deforestation, driven largely by the importance of tropical forests for tackling climate change.

Illegal and legal deforestation, driven by cattle ranching, soy production for livestock feed and logging for timber and charcoal, continues to be a significant problem in Brazil today.

(01/17/2008) U.S. incentives for biofuel production are promoting deforestation in southeast Asia and the Amazon by driving up crop prices and displacing energy feedstock production, say researchers.

Despite this economic turndown leading to a fall in energy use, Brazil's emissions rose by 9 % in 2016, driven largely by a spike in illegal deforestation.

Brazil's GHG emissions increased by 9 % in 2016, according to NGO Observatorio do Clima, driven by an increase in Amazon deforestation.

While only a fraction of this cultivation currently occurs in the Amazon rainforest, production in neighboring areas like the cerrado grassland helps drive deforestation by displacing small farmers and cattle producers, who then clear rainforest land for subsistence agriculture and pasture.

22 Tropical deforestation in Asia is driven primarily by the fast - growing demand for timber and, increasingly, by the soaring use of palm oil for fuel.

Forest fires are no longer driven mainly by deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, with climate change induced drought now taking a major role.

A biologist by training, Putra has dedicated himself to removing the illegal palm oil plantations that are driving deforestation around his home.

«As a result, global goals of zero commodity - driven deforestation by 2020 will be missed.»

These lands were falling victim to rampant deforestation driven by unrestricted charcoal trade.

In its most comprehensive study so far, the nation's leading scientific body declared on Wednesday that climate change is a reality and is driven mostly by human activity, chiefly the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.

By proposing a shared set of priorities, the Commodity and Forests Agenda 2020 aims to improve collaboration and coordination among stakeholders to address commodity - driven deforestation.

The Commodities and Forests Agenda 2020: Ten Priorities to Remove Tropical Deforestation from Commodity Supply Chains, prepared by Climate Focus and published by Tropical Forest Alliance 2020, is intended to serve as a framework for action at the global and regional level in order to accelerate progress in addressing commodity - driven dDeforestation from Commodity Supply Chains, prepared by Climate Focus and published by Tropical Forest Alliance 2020, is intended to serve as a framework for action at the global and regional level in order to accelerate progress in addressing commodity - driven deforestationdeforestation.

«British supermarkets are driving rapid destruction of the Amazon rainforest by using meat from farms responsible for illegal deforestation», says Adam.

Innovation Forum Publishing has been hosting «PowerPoint free,» debate - driven meetings addressing deforestation in supply chains since 2014, attended by leading businesses and NGOs.

One example is improving yield on lands already deforested to produce crops, thereby preventing additional deforestation driven by increasing demand for arable land.

Liberia has a deforestation problem, largely driven by industrial plantation development.

In this case, a «perfect storm of environmental destruction» from deforestation, logging, wildfire, and climate change, which is driven by global demand for food, biofuels, minerals, and hydrocarbons.

«Zooming In» presents new analysis by Forest Trends» Supply Change Initiative and Ceres about how companies that are committed to addressing commodity - driven deforestation are tracing supplies to their origin — be it factory, farm, field, or forest — so they can determine the impact their supply chains have on forests.

Yet, every day, they're being destroyed by rampant deforestation — and the wildlife who depend on them are being driven to extinction.

Driven by burning of fossil fuels and deforestation, carbon dioxide concentrations have also soared to unprecedented levels.

Meat consumption also drives emissions by being the main reason for tropical deforestation.

The campaign, led by the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), says that food giants are failing to ensure the palm oil they source does not drive deforestation or worsen social conflict.