Sentences with phrase «fuelwood harvesting»

Forest degradation emissions were primarily from logging, fuelwood harvesting and forest fires.

In places where work is scarce there may be increased pressure on natural resources for subsistence use including fuelwood harvesting and slash - and - burn cultivation.

Solar, geothermal, and wind energy potentials and indicators of hydroelectric and biomass energy potentials (fuelwood harvested, rivers, and precipitation) are presented.

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That's a pretty clearcut need given the risks attending the unfettered use of fossil fuels and the reality that 2 billion people today cook on guttering fires using fuelwood or dung harvested mainly by girls who are not going to school as a result.

It is not possible to say whether the remaining Parties excluded estimates of fuelwood or biomass burning as the information available was not adequate and it is possible that national harvest statistics have taken them into account.

She tells me she has to travel longer to harvest fuelwood.

Fuelwood as a proportion of total harvested wood from FAO, op.

Fuelwood accounts for 89 percent of Africa's wood harvest, where it is often the only accessible and affordable source of energy for heating and cooking, but only 17 percent in North and Central America, where other energy sources are more readily available.