Sentences with phrase «for global forest»

Estimates made for Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010 (FRA 2015) show that the world's forests and other wooded lands store more than 485 gigatonnes (1 Gt = 1 billion tonnes) of carbon, 260 Gt in the biomass (53 percent), 37 Gt in dead wood and litter (8 percent) and 189 Gt in soil (39 percent).

He was a member and past - Chair of the UN-FAO Advisory Group for the Global Forest Resource Assessment.

As international policy frameworks and pledges of billions of dollars move REDD + forward, many observers remain concerned over how to ensure the lofty promises being made for global forest conservation will actually provide broader social and environmental benefits.

Liz is the Research Analyst II for the Global Forest Watch program, serving as a product manager of the Forest Watcher mobile app, which brings the dynamic online forest monitoring and alert...

Not exact matches

In recent years, China single - handedly accounted for about 15 per cent of global GDP and half of global growth — namely by sucking up the world's supplies of raw materials and using them to build everything from high - speed railways to forests of apartment towers to house its 1.3 billion people.

This includes work for the BHP Billiton Foundation on the vast Ten Deserts Project — helping Indigenous Australians restore globally significant deserts — and the Great Barrier Reef, and issuing a global forests bond for BHP and a sovereign green bond for Fiji.

In a 6/25/15 address to the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) forum (brought to our attention by Luke Gromen in his newsletter, The Forest for the Trees), Dr.Yao Yudong of the People's Bank of China stated, «Main reserve currency issuers may either fail to adequately meet the demand of a growing global economy for liquidity as they try to ease inflation pressures at home, or create excess liquidity in the global markets by overly stimulating domestic demand.»

LAKE FOREST, Ill. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Tenneco (NYSE: TEN), one of the world's leading designers, manufacturers and distributors of Ride Performance and Clean Air products and technology solutions for diversified markets, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Federal - Mogul, a leading global supplier to original equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket.

Turning from per capita production to total global production, the total production from forests has been declining for several years (Brown 1991).

Neither are ecosystems, as is apparent from the threat of global warming, and our common dependence on what's left of the world's forests for oxygen.

Several agricultural standards include criteria to prevent the conversion of forests and improve landscape resilience, while the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) runs the most respected global certification programme for responsible forest managForest Stewardship Council (FSC) runs the most respected global certification programme for responsible forest managforest management.

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.

If you live in the industrialized global North — spending your days at an office desk, perhaps, or running around suburbs or cities, your trusty iPhone never more than a few inches away — you could be forgiven for thinking tropical forests have little do with your daily life (other than providing fodder for vacation daydreams, of course).

[33] Field was the instigator of the idea of a global Commonwealth network of protected forests, though he failed to raise political interest for a number of years; when HM The Queen came to hear of the idea she supported it enthusiastically, and the initiative was launched as the Queen's Commonwealth Canopy in 2015.

These commitments were strengthened in 2014 when governments, businesses, civil society and indigenous peoples» organisations endorsed the New York Declaration on Forests, calling for halving global deforestation rates by 2020 and ending it...

These commitments were strengthened in 2014 when governments, businesses, civil society and indigenous peoples» organisations endorsed the New York Declaration on Forests, calling for halving global deforestation rates by 2020 and ending it by 2030.

Globally, deforestation has slowed over the last 10 years, but «wood fuel accounted for about half of the removed wood,» according to the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010, put out by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization earlier this year.

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.

«People have thought about how forest loss matters for an ecosystem, and maybe for local temperatures, but they haven't thought about how that interacts with the global climate,» said co-author Abigail Swann, a UW assistant professor of atmospheric sciences and of biology.

«There really is something special about indigenous people's management of forests,» agrees Jonah Busch, an economist at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C., who was not involved in the analysis.

Accordingly, humans are, from a global perspective, responsible for 84 percent of the total amount of tropical forest fragmentation, although the picture varies slightly from continent to continent.

Other programs that got increases include global AIDS funding, Pell grants for college students, forest fire protection, and additional intelligence analysts at the FBI.

Tropical rain forests could thus potentially induce a large positive feedback for global CO2 atmospheric accumulation.

A unprecedented effort to set aside huge swathes of Canada's boreal forest includes — for the first time — global warming mitigation as a key objective

Of the $ 1.65 million for biodiversity and climate change work, $ 750,000 is for a global change research program primarily dealing with long - term forest research, $ 250,000 for a species identification program called Barcode of Life, and $ 300,000 for an online database of species called the Encyclopedia of Life.

«Climate and land use change have long been linked to changes in water yield,» said Peter Caldwell, research hydrologist for the Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) and primary author of the article recently published in the journal Global Change Biology.

«The findings for Niassa National Reserve are particularly encouraging in the African context because deforestation rates on the continent are five times higher than the global average, and many protected areas in Africa are losing a lot more forest.»

«It's important to note that the article doesn't address the direct and immediate impact of forest burning, such as emissions of black carbon [considered a major driver of global warming owing to its high capacity for absorbing solar radiation].

Resources for the Future will introduce its innovative global Forest Carbon Index on Thursday.

In my paneled session on resource scarcity, I end my 3 - minute «pitch» hoping for not much more than small strides toward putting the problem of global forest sustainability — the pure science of which we all seem to agree is largely done — into the hearts and hands of some of these mind - blowingly successful businessmen and social entrepreneurs.

«With land use sector emissions accounting for 25 percent of all global warming pollution, it is essential that countries with the potential to reduce emissions in this sector — like the U.S., EU, and Mexico — clearly commit to doing so in their INDCs,» said Doug Boucher, director of UCS's Tropical Forest and Climate Initiative.

The discovery that forests are not a panacea for global warming only emerged after they were given a central role in the Kyoto Protocol, the treaty signed two years ago by most of the world's governments in a bid to stem the greenhouse effect.

«Most climate models that incorporate vegetation are built on short - term observations, for example of photosynthesis, but they are used to predict long - term events,» said Bond - Lamberty, who works at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration between PNNL and the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. «We need to understand forests in the long term, but forests change slowly and researchers don't live that long.»

Steve Howard, head of the Global Forest Initiative at the Worldwide Fund for Nature, says that governments should increase protection for forests and promote timber certification schemes.

Researchers at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at the University of Kent say that with over 4 million km2 of tropical forests harvested for timber worldwide, improving the way logging impacts on wildlife is essential for global biodiversity conservation.

«Our study's publication on the 50th anniversary of the [sic] 1967 Tasmanian fire disaster is a fortuitous coincidence that helps highlight the global vulnerability of cities surrounding by flammable forests, regardless of climate change,» Bowman wrote in a «behind the paper» web post for Nature.

He also said he was uncertain whether growing global demand for woody biomass could be met in a way that also keeps forests healthy.

For the first time, this study allowed researchers to analyse the effects of the climate change on the forest nutrient cycles, and states that Pyrenean forests can register these episodes chemical mark at a global scale (for instance, volcanic eruptions in remote areas) and the effects of gas emissions into the atmosphere since the Industrial RevolutiFor the first time, this study allowed researchers to analyse the effects of the climate change on the forest nutrient cycles, and states that Pyrenean forests can register these episodes chemical mark at a global scale (for instance, volcanic eruptions in remote areas) and the effects of gas emissions into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolutifor instance, volcanic eruptions in remote areas) and the effects of gas emissions into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.

«The hope is that this paper gives us more of a global framework for how we manage our forests to conserve snowpack.»

«To predict the effects this type of deforestation has on the relationship between rain forest and the savanna — and on the local and global climate — it's necessary to understand how the transitional forest evolves in time and reacts to disturbances,» explained Yannick De Decker, associate professor at the Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, as well as the Nonlinear Physical Chemistry Unit at ULB.

Similar to the humans who find themselves sluggish during a heat wave, when water is scarce, Douglas firs also put the brakes on growing — a choice that could have ramifications for forest carbon stocks and the global carbon cycle.

«We need high - resolution, transparent, global capability for monitoring not just deforestation but also forest degradation.»

Making all deforestation «illegal» «The Wilmar commitment sets a new global standard for industry and creates new constituencies in forest countries among the private sector for improved land - use policies and improved law enforcement,» said Frances Seymour, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and an expert in forest pglobal standard for industry and creates new constituencies in forest countries among the private sector for improved land - use policies and improved law enforcement,» said Frances Seymour, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and an expert in forest pGlobal Development and an expert in forest policy.

Greg Asner, an ecologist with the Carnegie Institution for Science's Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University in California, has used a unique spectral imager to map 15 traits for forests across Peru.

South American rainforests account for nearly half of global forest loss.

In an article published in the journal Science, authors Dr. Sandra Brown, of Winrock International, and Dr. Daniel Zarin, of the Climate and Land Use Alliance, posit that, while the idea seems simple and compelling, ambiguity surrounding global definitions and metrics actually creates risks for forest conservation and accountability.

«Monitoring gross changes in forest cover — both losses and gains — is now not a technical challenge because there are many satellite data providers to choose from, robust methods for imagery interpretation, and increased computing power; what is needed is the global commitment to allocate the resources to get the job done,» says Brown.

«Our estimates suggest that, currently, the global established forests which are outside the [tropics] alone can account for the terrestrial carbon sink,» the study found.

That's at least according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, which details how global carbon emissions from forests could have been underestimated because calculations have not fully accounted for the dead wood from logging.

Oftentimes we get bogged down discussing one of the many pieces of evidence behind man - made global warming, and in the process we can't see the forest for the trees.