Sentences with phrase «funding for biodiversity»

But when it came to providing funding for biodiversity protection, world leaders were given an «F».

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In 1999, a joint workshop in Vignola, Italy, organized by The World Conservation Union (IUCN) and IFOAM together with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), was held to exchange ideas and information on organic agriculture and biodiversity.

The research received over two million euros in funding from the European Research Council (ERC), since advances in this field are important for protecting biodiversity in the context of climate and land use changes, and for calculating carbon balances.

The European Commission (EC) is currently funding several projects intended «to explore the potential in Europe to develop a very big scientific initiative in this particular field,» says Andrés Moya, head of the Spanish Cavanilles Institute for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology in Valencia.

Lead researcher Peter Bellingham issued the following plea: «Given the strength of our evidence of the serious consequences of this invasion for biodiversity, we urge the relevant institutions in Jamaica, and international funding bodies, to prioritise a programme of control of this species.

The research from Nils Krueck, Peter Mumby and colleagues at the University of Queensland, World Wildlife Fund, and the University of Melbourne makes the case for strict protection of 20 - 30 % of fishing grounds, specifically where both biodiversity and fisheries are threatened.

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are an increasingly popular strategy for protecting marine biodiversity, but a new global study demonstrates that widespread lack of personnel and funds are preventing MPAs from reaching their full potential.

The National Science Foundation's Dimensions of Biodiversity research program provided funding for the study.

Appreciate the support of the Global Environment Facility, Global Tiger Initiative, Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU), Snow Leopard Conservancy, Snow Leopard Trust, United Nations Development Programme, United States Agency for International Development, World Bank, World Wildlife Fund, and others for the cause of snow leopard conservation, and invite all interested stakeholders to expand partnerships to enhance the Program.

According to the study published in Marine Biodiversity, it was discovered in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands during an expedition of the Okeanos Explorer — the «only federally funded U.S. ship assigned to systematically explore our largely unknown ocean for the purpose of discovery and the advancement of knowledge.»

Team Bufo's research hasn't been designed for this purpose - our funding from the Australian Research Council is to understand toads and their effects, not to control them - but clearly it would be a terrific spin - off if that knowledge could be used to reduce the impact of cane toads on Australian biodiversity.

In fact The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity project is saying «natural systems represent one of the biggest untapped allies» in combatting climate change, because of their carbon storage potential — and that incorporating funding for forests in a global climate deal should be a key priority: TEEB highlights the fact that in addition to absorbing some 15 % of global carbon emissions, forests provide a whole range of ecosystem services that are worthy of protecting.

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Tourists who visit Palau pay a «green» exit fee that provides funding for management of important biodiversity sites by community members.

«A successful REDD mechanism would direct far more funds to tropical forests than are currently available for biodiversity conservation.

However, the Australian public were also promised a fixed price until 2015, a price floor of $ 15 for three years thereafter, $ 946 million allocated to the Biodiversity Fund and $ 1.2 billion allocated to the Clean Technology Program.

The Institute for the Conservation and Sustainable Development of Amazonas (Idesam) provided technical support, and the Brazilian Biodiversity Fund (Funbio) set up Fundo Surui, which will administer income from the carbon project.

Example recommendations include: create dedicated funding streams for green infrastructure; incentivize the planting of native and regionally - appropriate plants, protection of habitats, and the increase of biodiversity; and encourage the inclusion of climate change assessments in green space planning, including at the regional level.

Developing an Infrastructure Fund for the Planet explored how ecosystem service payments and markets in carbon, water and biodiversity are quickly becoming a key solution to the urgent environmental problems of climate change, fresh water pollution, biodiversity loss, soil erosion, and destruction of our coastal and marine systems.

The World Wide Fund for Nature, an international non-governmental organization promoting conservation and biodiversity, stresses that climate change «will impact some of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people, disrupting food production, and threatening vitally important species, habitats and ecosystems.»

Academy Award nominated actor Edward Norton, who also serves as the United Nation's Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity, said: «Stand For Trees can be a game - changer by harnessing the power of crowd - funding to protect forests, the air we breathe, and the climate that sustains for Biodiversity, said: «Stand For Trees can be a game - changer by harnessing the power of crowd - funding to protect forests, the air we breathe, and the climate that sustains For Trees can be a game - changer by harnessing the power of crowd - funding to protect forests, the air we breathe, and the climate that sustains us.

Friends of the Earth Europe's and CEE Bankwatch Network's detailed recommendations for EU regional funds 2014 - 2020 aim to put Europe on a sustainable development path, urging the European Council and European Parliament, as well as national governments, to use these recommendations for Structural and Cohesion Funds to tackle climate change, stop biodiversity loss and reverse resource - overconsumpfunds 2014 - 2020 aim to put Europe on a sustainable development path, urging the European Council and European Parliament, as well as national governments, to use these recommendations for Structural and Cohesion Funds to tackle climate change, stop biodiversity loss and reverse resource - overconsumpFunds to tackle climate change, stop biodiversity loss and reverse resource - overconsumption.

«With an alliance of environmental NGOs, universities and private businesses, we're developing the capacity to significantly accelerate funding from markets supporting «Payments for Ecological Services», including carbon credits, wetlands banking, biodiversity banking, etc, and to direct that funding to the best ecosystem restoration projects as determined by solid science», he explains.

According to a report from the World Wildlife Fund entitled «Sugar and the Environment,» sugar may be responsible for more biodiversity loss than any other crop.

The new study, funded by NASA and led by Dr. Richard Pearson of UCL Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research and formerly of the American Museum of Natural History, and by Dr. Resit Akçakaya of Stony Brook University in New York, identified factors that predispose species to high extinction risk due to climate change.

And finally, an enhanced and more active engagement with the state could occur, through the provision of publicly funded contracts for the provision of both natural resource management services that aim to conserve biodiversity and some of the ecosystem services identified above.104