Sentences with phrase «global forests»

This increases current estimates of global forest cover by at least 9 %.

In fact, there are few alternative sources of information on global forest change.

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

We've even seen some reports that global forest cover is set for a resurgence.

The company has invested $ 30 million in global forest carbon projects, and purchases only the highest - quality offsets that meet rigorous environmental criteria.

These disparities have led to major doubts about the reliability of global forest area estimates, and to questions about the real contribution made by forests to the global carbon cycle.

While corporations pursuing commercial interests could end up protecting global forests, poor countries could have a new way to capitalize on their natural assets without destroying them.

Our present practices can be sustained until we have exhausted global forests.

The study, which shows that trees planted in tropical regions can help fight climate change, found that global forests actually produce a net warming of the planet.

Focusing on great global forests and oceans we aim to preserve, protect and restore the most valuable ecosystems for the climate and for biodiversity.

A time - lapsed map released today by the World Resources Institute using satellite imagery from Global Forest Watch shows how much forest is being lost in Northern Alberta to make way for major industrial operations, mainly to extract oil from the tar sands, also referred to as the oilsands.

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).

NOAH (Friends of the Earth Denmark), Biofuelwatch, Econexus, Global Forest Coalition, World Rainforest Movement, Rettet den Regenwald e.V., and Corporate Europe Observatory

Although not all of that loss is complete deforestation, statistics from Global Forest Watch demonstrate that most of that tree cover disappeared from natural forest in 2016.

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.

But here we are in 2014 with Global Forest Watch at our fingertips an exciting tool that also highlights the complex, global nature of the fight to keep forests intact in a climate - changing world.

Accessed through Global Forest Watch on 2018-05-13.

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

«For the first time, we have united in one place powerful satellite information analyzed in a way that is easy to understand,» said Nigel Sizer, director of WRI's Global Forest Initiative.

NASA's Quarterly Indicator of Cover Change (QUICC), a MODIS satellite - based product that underpins Mongabay's Global Forest Disturbance Alert System (GloF - DAS), detected a significant increase in forest disturbance in Peru's Alto Nanay Pintuyacu Chambira conservation area and Alto Purus National Park between January 1 and March 31, 2015.

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.

A new study released by Global Forest Watch Canada finds that significant amounts of greenhouse gases are emitted through the disturbance and / or removal of biocarbon (trees, shrubs, peats), which overlay Alberta's oil sands.

In his previous role as director of the World Resources Institute's Global Forest Programs, he gave technical input into the SDGs in relation to the world's forests.

WWF Global Forest and Trade Network North American Annual Meeting June 12 - 14, 2017 - Greensboro, North Carolina, United States Richard Donovan, Andrew Goldberg and Samantha St. Pierre are representing the Rainforest Alliance at the annual meeting.

30th Annual Global Forest, Paper & Packaging Industry Conference May 7 - 11, 2017 - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Dave Bubser, Senior Manager for North America, will be participating.

The green and yellow areas above represent global forest and woodland cover.

11 November 2015 WASHINGTON, D.C. Forest Trends, a non-profit organization that tracks global forest developments, today released the most comprehensive analysis to date of the United Nations» program for protecting forests and generating forest conservation finance.

Action needed from China EIA spokesperson Susanne Breitkopf, who attended the meeting in Geneva welcomed the decisions on Nigeria and Madagascar: «The international community has shown its willingness to help fight devastating global forest crime and bring its perpetrators to justice at this meeting.

Illegal logging and global forest crime has an estimated worth of $ 30 to $ 100 billion U.S. dollars annually, comprising 10 to 30 percent of the total global timber trade.

In summary, these results demonstrate the potential for synergies and sensitivities of ecological response to forest loss in disparate regions via ecoclimate teleconnections, which will need to be accounted for as global forest loss increases and climate dynamics are altered in response to land use and climate change.

With the effects of climate change already being felt from New York City to New Delhi, the fight to keep global forest carbon stocks intact, to improve forest management, and to reforest degraded land is more vital than ever.

They now have the tools to make good on this commitment — a unique partnership of World Resources Institute, Google, and more than 40 other partners have developed Global Forest Watch, an on - line platform providing near real - time mapping of forests around the world.

We are already exceeding limits in this respect since global forests are receding.

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.

«In addition to the direct loss of forest, there was a widespread shift of the remaining global forest to a more fragmented condition,» explains Kurt Riitters, a research ecologist and team leader with the U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center and the lead author of a study describing the phenomenon, published in the January 2016 issue of Landscape Ecology.

Forests covered just over 4 billion hectares, or about 31 % of Earth's land area, in 2010, according to the most recent Global Forest Resource Assessment undertaken by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.

Cory Cleveland, a UM professor of terrestrial ecosystem ecology, said that previous research in the wet tropics — where much of global forest productivity occurs — indicates that the increased rainfall that may occur with climate change would cause declines in plant growth.

Hammer also co-founded a platform called Global Forest Watch, which uses satellite images to detect deforestation.

These verification standards, alongside remote sensing tools like Global Forest Watch, are evidence that we are now living in the Anthropocene a new geological epoch in which humans have so fundamentally changed Earth's systems that their management rests in our hands.

As the global extinction rate is already catastrophic and increasing exponentially, forest dependent organisms can not endure this trend, nor will most lifeforms on earth cope with further loss of the critical global forest carbon sink.