Sentences with phrase «ecosystem level actions»

That those two ecosystem level actions were implemented in conjunction with island fox recovery actions was fortuitous.

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The success of those ecosystem - level actions was facilitated by the islands» isolation and their limited, more defined ecosystems: once pigs were removed from the islands, there was little chance of them returning.

The proposed goals include promoting actions at all levels to address climate change, attaining conservation and sustainable use of marine resources, oceans and seas, and protecting and restoring terrestrial ecosystems and halting all biodiversity loss.

With global GHG emissions and concentrations continuing to increase; with climate change intensifying changes in ecosystems, ice sheet deterioration, and sea level rise; and with fossil fuels providing more than 80 % of the world's energy, the likelihood seems low that cooperative actions will prevent increasingly disruptive climate change over the next several decades.

Many negotiators tell Ecosystem Marketplace that REDD itself is no longer a contentious issue, but that things get hairy when they try to digest the decision made in Bali to expand the land - use debate from REDD alone into broader issues of «conservation, sustainable management of forests, changes in forest cover and associated carbon stocks and greenhouse gas emissions and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks to enhance action on mitigation of climate change and to the consideration of reference levels.»

Integrating different local and national levels of action has come to be referred to as «nesting» and is important for a number of reasons, all of which are laid out in a new report from Forest Trends (publisher of Ecosystem Marketplace) and Climate Focus entitled Nested Approaches to REDD + An Overview of Issues and Options.