Sentences with phrase «focused on the deforestation»

When the Rainforest Alliance was founded in 1987, our work focused on the deforestation crisis in Central America.

Prof Peres added: «Intergovernmental policies to reduce carbon emissions from tropical countries have primarily focused on deforestation, and to a lesser extent on forest degradation resulting from timber extraction and wildfires.

The Hard Part There was also a practical reason to focus on deforestation fires, Bowman said.

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Twelve of the world's leading cocoa and chocolate companies have agreed to collectively work towards ending deforestation and forest degradation in the global cocoa supply chain, with an initial focus on Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana...

The Manager will be responsible for the Markets Team's Corporate Advisory activities in Europe, with a focus on forest products and commodities linked to deforestation including oil palm and rubber.

S / he will focus on ensuring that all our key partners and stakeholders within our Corporate Advisory, forest products and no deforestation work in Europe are effectively managed, retained and further developed.

Those nine areas are focused on agriculture (carbon farming), increasing energy efficiency, reducing food waste, eliminating commodity - driven deforestation, reducing the climate impact of packaging, advocating for responsible policies, committing to 100 percent renewable power, reducing short - lived climate pollutant emissions and transportation - related emissions.

Join thought - provoking discussions between experts, eyewitnesses, policymakers and the local public focused on combating deforestation and land degradation challenges in Africa

Business News of Sunday, 20 May 2018 Source: dailyguideafrica.com play videoForest actors and government officials at the Tropical Africa Alliance Global Assembly 2018 Forest actors and government officials, who recently met in Accra during the Tropical Africa Alliance (TFA) Global Assembly 2018, have called on African governments to move beyond policy commitments and supply chain transparency and focus on implementation transparency in the fight against deforestation.

Previous research has focused on Amazon upland forests and the potential impacts of deforestation, fire, and drought.

«Avoiding deforestation and focusing reforestation in the areas that teeter on the species loss threshold will be the most direct and cost - effective way to prevent further species loss in the Amazon region,» added Ochoa - Quintero.

So far, climate change policies on the tropics have effectively been focusing on reducing carbon emissions from deforestation only, not accounting for emissions coming from forest degradation.

Now, in newly published research, Mark Noble, visiting assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Lehigh, focuses on the link between cocoa exports and deforestation in developing nations.

The study focused on the removal of the flowers of the invasive shrub Prosopis juliflora, which is native to Central and South America but was introduced to new areas in the late 1970's and early 1980's as an attempt to reverse deforestation.

«The current system on the ground can not deliver deforestation - free palm oil,» says Cynthia Ong, executive director of Forever Sabah, a non-governmental organization focused on environmental issues in Malaysian Borneo.

Guyana's case is unusual in that its deforestation rate is nearly zero and forest policies are focused on preventing deforestation entirely.

It is no longer enough to just focus on the countries where deforestation happens and the potential policy measures available there, he adds.

But Guyana's program focuses on promoting economic growth while still keeping deforestation low.

According to the authors of the study, who hail from the Hemholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), assessments of rainforest loss has focused primarily on deforestation itself, estimating how much carbon is dumped back into the atmosphere by measuring how much forest was cleared away.

His research is at the interface of ecosystems, land use, and climate change focusing on tropical deforestation and degradation, functional diversity of tropical canopies, conservation of African savannas, invasive species and climate change, and the effects of land use on the global carbon cycle.

She focuses on the theme of deforestation, specifically delving into the way it can divide people — the more the outsiders exploit and change the environment, the more indigenous people's ways are judged as lazy and unintelligent.

The article focuses on a fresh promise from Brazil's president to cut the rate of destruction 72 percent by 2017, in a move seen by many to be related to efforts by some developing countries to get potentially valuable credit for avoided deforestation in whatever climate treaty results from talks next year.

But he said he was confident that this would work, pointing to the example of Harrison Ford, who focuses on Indonesian deforestation:

And we can again focus on the world's true calamities: malnutrition, deforestation, malaria, AIDS, and pollution of the oceans.

I really wish you would have focused on serious environmental issues such as strip mining, deforestation, loss of habitat, and depletion of the oceans.

An expert on environmental and natural resource policy in developing countries, Allen Blackman focuses principally on industrial pollution control and tropical deforestation in Latin America and Asia.

Using a supplier sustainability platform and emissions reductions toolkit, Walmart encourages its suppliers to focus their efforts on what their data tells them are the most important areas: energy, agriculture, waste, packaging, deforestation and product use and design.

Often when business action is discussed, we focus on commitments only, but even more significant are the efforts by business to engage in fundamental market transformation (such as a commitment to no net deforestation or zero carbon emissions by 2050).

Although uncertainties still linger, the technical sub-committee that focused on REDD for the two years leading up to Bali concluded not only that the magnitude of deforestation emissions was significant — approximately 20 % of global emissions — but that sufficiently cost - effective methodologies exist for measuring forest carbon and monitoring deforestation.

Our undercover investigations expose transnational wildlife crime, with a focus on elephants and tigers and forest crimes such as illegal logging and deforestation for cash crops such as palm oil.

This paper focuses on 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 (REDD +), specifically related to systems for providing information on how safeguards referred to in appendix I to UNFCCC decision 1 / CP.16 are addressed and respected.

He is an environmental economist whose research focuses on climate change and tropical deforestation.

To respond to country needs in this context, this report strongly focuses on aspects related to forests, mainly on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, including sustainable forest management and forest conservation as well as forest restoration.

This RFF First Wednesday Seminar focused on the opportunities for and challenges of reducing supply chain deforestation using private and regulatory strategies, potential synergies among these strategies, and linkages with Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradatdeforestation using private and regulatory strategies, potential synergies among these strategies, and linkages with Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest DegradatDeforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD +).

RSPB highlighted their current work in forests, focusing on their international campaigns like the Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project, whose on - the - ground work is making a difference to places like the Harapan and the Sabangau rainforests, on the front line of advancing wave oil palm which is driving deforestation and the corrupt conversion of forest for plantation concessions.

We focus on comparing impacts from two particular forests that historically demonstrate vulnerability to increased rates of tree loss from dieback and / or deforestation.

Focusing on the carbon emissions associated with tropical deforestation, it showed that converting rainforests or grasslands to corn, soybean, or palm oil biofuel production led to a carbon emissions increase — a «biofuel carbon debt» — that was at least 37 times greater than the annual reduction in greenhouse gases resulting from the shift from fossil fuels to biofuels.

At the 20th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held in Lima December 1 through 14, a series of speakers presenting at the «Voices for Climate, Indigenous Pavilion» focused on drivers of deforestation, highlighting the production of palm oil as a rising threat to forests and human rights.

Much of Adeso's work is rooted in the notion that people's livelihoods are inextricably linked to natural resources and a healthy environment, which is why its programs have a strong focus on stopping deforestation and the illegal charcoal trade, protecting and regenerating pastoralists» rangeland and promoting food security.

Many of the solutions to date have focused on mitigation — ways to slash emissions as quickly as possible, such as by adopting renewable energy, promoting energy efficiency and stopping deforestation.

It also focuses on the 2013 opening of the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) and the adoption of a Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) in developing countries «Rulebook», as well as the organization's work on adaptation, energy and resilience.

The focus on the tropics for conservationists and policymakers has been on the tropics, in part, because the majority of emissions due to deforestation are from tropical regions.

The main land use item we followed was APA item 3 (c), which was also the hot topic among land - focused civil society because of it's impact on how parties under the Paris Agreement account for their emissions by sources (deforestation, agriculture) and removals by sinks (forests, agriculture) from the land sector in their NDCs.

Summary: Brazil's Amazon Fund to reduce deforestation distributes $ 40M to 5 NGOs Projects focus on monitoring, environmentally - responsible land use, forest protection, and payments for avoiding deforestation 20 % of Amazon Fund...

Trees for the Earth focuses on those regions of the world most affected by deforestation.

This week we are focusing on the long term impacts of palm oil production, including the effects of tropical deforestation on climate change, toxic waste pollution from processing plants, and forced labor at palm oil plantations.

Respondents also said governments should focus more on increasing investment in renewable energy, halting deforestation and conserving water resources than on carbon markets or taxes.

«The task for us is to avoid catastrophic climate change,» she declared at an event that focused on REDD +, the UN programme to combat deforestation.

While the first two instalments aimed to better define the climate change problem, the third report focuses on potential solutions — from ramping up wind and solar power, to halting deforestation.

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