Sentences with phrase «forest sector»

Doing so will require significant efforts to address historical forest sector challenges, including weak governance.

The assessment uses a red - amber - green traffic light system to indicate which forest sector documents are in the public domain.

Whilst forest sector transparency is increasingly recognised and discussed as an issue, regulatory frameworks for «carbon concessions» or land deals remain almost non-existent.

The complicated trade dynamics need to be made more transparent by the Myanmar government and the domestic forest sector in order to provide more clear guidelines for overseas buyers demanding legal, sustainable, and ethical sourcing.

- In Liberia, the VPA commits the government to the publication of 22 laws and regulations, plus 30 items that report on the location and extent of forest sector operations, and the companies involved.

Siakor organizes workshops and written proposals that outline forest sector reform priorities, emphasizing transparency, civil society input and sustainable forest management.

Today Siakor's Sustainable Development Institute works to outline forest sector reform priorities, emphasizing transparency, civil society input and sustainable forest management.

- In Cameroon, the VPA commits the government to publication of 75 items including laws, regulations, maps, and reports on forest sector operations.

«The US forest sector is well set up and managed, meets our sustainability criteria and the supplies of sustainable biomass are plentiful,» says Melanie Wedgbury from Drax Power — the largest British electrical power generation company.

«Through our work with the U.S. forest sector, we have seen the importance of reducing uncertainty for carbon market participants to encourage participation,» said Jad Daley, climate program director at The Trust for Public Land.

Our special interest in emission reductions in the land use and forest sectors led to the registration of seven new high quality afforestation / reforestation (A / R) projects in the U.S., Brazil and Madagascar.

Using a general stylized forest sector management model, our study examines the economic potential of traditional industrial forests and supplemental dedicated fuelwood plantations to produce biomass on submarginal lands.

«International donors must also ensure that human rights and forest sector reforms are guaranteed before any international funding is released to developing countries for their national actions on forest and climate issues.»

That highlights the volatility of the forest sector, Cohen says.

In recent years, indeed, Canadian firms have already used a disturbing proportion of their profits to buy one another out, buy assets in the US or abroad and invest outside the forest sector.

Ghana's efforts at restoring its forest sector will play an important role in meeting its commitments under the Agreement.

There is great scope to enhance the role of EU forests and the forest sector in tackling climate change according to Professor Gert - Jan Nabuurs, lead author of a forthcoming EFI science - policy study.

Prof. Nabuurs also pointed out that in many EU member states public money goes in the forest sector, but the effect of this against climate targets is largely unknown.

In a lively discussion, panellists and the audience debated how best to include forest and forest sector emissions and removals in EU climate policy post 2020, and what incentives and tools could be used to increase the mitigation potential of the EU forest sector.

Russia's 2010 Copenhagen Accord pledge to the UN said that it would allow for «appropriate accounting» of the forest sector.

FIP grants and low - interest loans, channeled through partner multilateral development banks (MDBs), are empowering countries to address the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation both inside and outside of the forest sector to achieve the triple win of being good for forests, good for development and good for the climate.

• Improve coordinated law enforcement efforts to tackle illegal logging in the forest sector, by assigning more resources to the Multi-Sectoral Commission against Illegal Logging (CMLTI) and the Regional Environmental Prosecutor's Offices.

Although Peru has made commitments to protect its rainforest, stating its intention to reduce net deforestation to zero by 2021 and recently signing a US $ 300 million agreement with the Government of Norway in support of its ambitions, progress will not be achieved unless the underlying governance issues that plague the forest sector are addressed.

These are the most significant illegal log exports since the timber - fuelled civil wars of the Charles Taylor era, and threaten to undermine the progress the President has made in bringing order to the forest sector.

Russia's 2010 Copenhagen Accord pledge to the UN said that it would allow for «appropriate accounting» of the forest sector.

Encourages developing country Parties to contribute to mitigation actions in the forest sector by undertaking the following activities, as deemed appropriate by each Party and in accordance with their respective capabilities and national circumstances:

Forest Trends, a non-profit organization that tracks global forest developments, recommends that the Myanmar Government adopt firm policies to reform the forest sector and scale up the national reforestation policy.

«REDD + will obviously continue to be a results - based payment approach for mitigation action in developing countries and the forest sector, so why mention something that clearly points to differentiation?»

Relatively few countries specifically address poverty or rural employment when updating their forest policies, it says in the report, despite the forest sector employing 13.2 million people across the world, and at least another 41 million people informally.

It compiles cases demonstrating that aligning the actions of stakeholders involved in Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD +) and Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) can make a greater and more sustained contribution to the forest sector's «mitigation potential» and to addressing the core drivers of weak forest governance.

It identifies key legal challenges associated with REDD +, including equitable and secure land tenure, decentralized governance, integrated land - use planning, benefit distribution systems, inter-ministerial coordination and definitions in the forest sector.

This guidance document describes how the forest sector in the UNECE region could lead the way towards the emerging green economy at the global level.

For instance, REDD should not further marginalize forest - dwelling communities and should avoid fostering already widespread corruption in the forest sector.

In Myanmar, as the country continues to reform its forest sector, we are partnering with the Myanmar Forest Certification Committee (MFCC) to support this transition to the sustainable management of its forests.

This work included field studies to identify opportunities for local income generation in the forest sectors of Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Vietnam.

Despite forest covering almost a quarter of Nepal's land area, the forest sector's contribution to the national economy has remained disproportionately small.

Additional factors that influence the potential for non-climate policies to reduce net emissions from the forest sector include their ability to (1) provide relatively large net reductions per unit area; (2) be potentially applicable at a large geographic scale; and, (3) have relatively low leakage (Niesten et al., 2002).

Fixing this through agriculture and forest sector would not only mitigate climate but lead biodiversity conservation... so our carbon dioxide project Mikoko Pamoja cropped from my earlier mangrove planting in the 1990s but to be specific the bigger idea of trading in mangrove carbon was in 2013.»

His dissertation examines the political economy of the forest sector in Vietnam, with particular attention given to the dynamics of access and control over forestland and forest resources.

Independent reports corroborate Global Witness findings that illegality, corruption and over-exploitation are endemic to Congo Basin logging, and even the Democratic Republic of Congo's own agricultural minister likened his country's forest sector to «the Wild West» recently.

THE ALLIANCE is a joint effort of the World Resources Institute and the Environmental Investigation Agency, supported by the United States Agency for International Development and companies in the forest sector.

The critical watershed of the Irrawaddy River is threatened by logging in the N'Mai Hku area while unrecorded exports in excess of one million cubic metres, worth approximately US$ 250 million, strongly suggest that the regime has lost control of its forest sector.

A first attempt to develop a carbon budget for the forest sector has been made in Canada (Apps and Kurz, 1991) and this report includes the results of that model.

Siakor, the director of the Sustainable Development Institute, is coordinating civil society's participation in the forest sector reform, as mandated by the U.N. Security Council.

This analytical document describes trends of the forest sector in Cambodia by emphasising particularly to both positive and negative drivers.

This analytical document describes trends of the forest sector in Myanmar by emphasising particularly to both positive and negative drivers.

This analytical document describes trends of the forest sector in Thailand by emphasising particularly to both positive and negative drivers.