Sentences with phrase «ecosystem services to the world»

«Forests are like giant utilities providing ecosystem services to the world that we all benefit from but we don't pay for.»

If biotic pump theory proves true, it adds a new and vital ecosystem service to the world's forests: rainmakers.

Not exact matches

Yoshitaka Kitao, Chairman of SBI Holdings commented: «As a pioneer of internet - based financial services, we are excited to add DriveWealth to the world's first «financial ecosystem» that SBI has now expanded from Japan to worldwide.»

It is the first and foremost ecosystem in the world that offers 5G messaging services to its users.

To better inform the tradeoffs involved in land use choices around the world, experts have assessed the value of ecosystem services provided by land resources such as food, poverty reduction, clean water, climate and disease regulation and nutrients cycling.

Given the profits made from filming the natural world, can a scheme be worked out to pay for this ecosystem service?

But basically sustainable development is an ideal of trying to promote prosperity around the world while also recognizing that we need to preserve the sort of valuable services that the natural ecosystems provide because they are an essential strut of the world's economy.

The paper, published in the Journal of Environmental Management, examines artificial coral reefs as «recreational ecosystem services,» offering a new methodology to evaluate the aesthetic, behavioral and attitudinal aspects of which artificial reefs around the world can be evaluated.

For example, mangroves are estimated to be worth at least US$ 1.6 billion each year in ecosystem services that support coastal livelihoods and human populations around the world *.

Eleven percent of the Earth's land habitats are now set aside as national parks to conserve their biodiversity and ecosystem services; in contrast, less than 0.1 % of the world's oceans are fully protected, the researchers point out.

As capital moves freely, investing in production or in fictitious forms of capitalism, and as speculators, financier capitalists, stock and bond traders, investment bankers, hedge fund mangers, and others help to unleash the forces of capital accumulation globally, and as neo-liberalism with its aggressive pro-market state policies allows this finance capital to restructure itself, to diversify its forms, to expand its accumulation opportunities through the growth of retail, financial and service industries, and enhance its global reach, then it is safe to assume that our ecosystems have been harnessed exploitatively in a system of capitalist commodity production such that we can not talk about capitalism at all without talking about capitalism as a world ecology.

To enable the Skiff service platform and ecosystem, Skiff has assembled a set of world - class device, connectivity, retail distribution, and advertising partners:

The new Fire tablet includes a quad - core processor, 7» IPS display, front - and rear - facing cameras, up to 128 GB of expandable storage, exclusive Amazon features and services, and access to the world's best content ecosystem — all for just $ 49.99.

By joining forces with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), we will continue to expand and accelerate the convergence of EPUB and the Open Web Platform in service of our mission to foster the global adoption of an open, accessible, and interoperable digital publishing ecosystem that enables innovation.

Orlando, FL - There's a buzz here at the Marriott Orlando World Center in anticipation of this week's BlackBerry World which is the largest annual gathering for the BlackBerry ecosystem, and the place where the community behind BlackBerry devices, services and solutions gather to learn, share and network.

In addition to the new attractive price point, SCE will accelerate the expansion of the PS4 system to new audiences by further enhancing the PS4 ecosystem, which includes strengthening the PS4 software line - up, bolstering the network services available on PlayStation ™ Network and introducing PlayStation ® VR, the virtual reality system that expands the world of PS4.

The report, released on Monday by WWF and financial services Allianz, concludes that the world's diverse regions and ecosystems are close to temperature thresholds — or «tipping points.»

The State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2013 is publicly and freely available thanks to support from the report's Premium Sponsors: the Program on Forests (PROFOR), the World Bank Biocarbon Fund, Face the Future, and New Forests; Sponsors: Althelia Ecosphere and Baker & McKenzie; and additional support from the UK Forestry Commission's Woodland Carbon Code — all of which enable Ecosystem Marketplace to explore developments on the frontier of ecosystem serviceEcosystem Marketplace to explore developments on the frontier of ecosystem serviceecosystem service finance.

In this view, carbon storage as organic matter in soil is a valuable ecosystem service to society at every political scale, from sub-watershed to municipality to region, nation, and world.

The State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2013 is publicly and freely available thanks to support from the report's Premium Sponsors: the Program on Forests (PROFOR), the World Bank BioCarbon Fund, Face the Future, and New Forests; Sponsors: Althelia Ecosphere and Baker & McKenzie; and additional support from the UK Forestry Commission's Woodland Carbon Code — all of which enable Ecosystem Marketplace to explore developments on the frontier of ecosystem serviceEcosystem Marketplace to explore developments on the frontier of ecosystem serviceecosystem service finance.

The Team's initiative, she said, began informally in 2005 functioning in an ad hoc, sporadic fashion to enable policy makers from around the world to receive fast, focused advice on how to participate in emerging ecosystem markets and design effective plans and legislation that yield payments for ecosystem services.

«The ACR Nested REDD + Standard is built on 15 years of work by Winrock around the world, providing technical assistance and building local capacity to design and implement science - based methods to measure, monitor and report carbon emission reductions from forests,» said Dr. Sandra Brown, director and chief scientist of Winrock International's Ecosystem Services group and Dr. Nancy Harris, lead scientists for the Standard.

For 17 years, the Katoomba Group has brought together world experts and thought leaders in payment for ecosystem services to share innovative approaches and discuss the future of this topic of global importance.

To make these ecosystem services part of the world's economy, Forest Trends has been developing market - based financial tools that reflect real, measurable economic values in benefits from nature like clean air, clean water, and biodiversity.

Even accounting for the fact that the vast majority of the world's population consumes far, far less than this, natural resources and ecosystem services equal to 1.3 planets are consumed by humans.

The World Commission on Dams reports that large dams are the «main physical threat» to the «degradation of watershed ecosystems» and destroy or restrict rivers» capacities to perform crucial ecosystem services such as providing habitat for fish reproduction, nutrient recycling, water purification, soil replenishment, flood control, and mangroves and wet - lands protection.

As someone noted above, all the argy bargy in the world won't make a scrap of difference to the quality of ecosystem services.

HUAWEI Consumer Cloud Services provides developers with the capability to serve users around the world, and is committed to building an open and inclusive ecosystem that benefits all.

We stimulate scientists and any interested in maintaining their future to find real - world solutions to limit and reverse the degradation of ecosystem services supporting life on Earth.

Through the practice of «Safe Conversations,» a structured dialogue process, Harville Hendrix, PhD and Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD aim to help people, in all human ecosystems, experience safety in all conversations in the service of creating a relational world, shifting the perspective from the age of the individual to the age of relationship — by helping people build healthy relationships.