Sentences with phrase «illegal conversion of»

Cracking down on the illegal timber trade and illegal conversion of forests for large - scale agribusiness helps to mitigate climate change by reducing CO2 emissions from land use change.

Not exact matches

And conversion of Muslims is all but illegal in Malaysia.

There are many people, I learned — not all of them gunsmiths by any means — who would be happy to do the (illegal) conversion for $ 100 or less.

Just two decades ago, Bolivia's forests faced an onslaught of illegal logging, over-harvesting, and conversion to agriculture.

Shurka was one of nine speakers who attended a hearing before the Erie County Legislature Thursday, to urge legislators to support a proposed local law that would make gay conversion therapy programs illegal.

Another piece of legislation, sponsored by Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, would require the city buildings department to submit an annual report to the Council on illegal conversions in apartments.

Entergy, another company that has butted heads with Cuomo, filed a lawsuit last year claiming that a ratepayer - subsidized conversion of the Dunkirk plant would be illegal and discriminatory.

IBZs were created by the Bloomberg administration to aid manufacturers, who were being priced out of their industrial spaces by landlords looking to make larger profits through — sometimes illegal — residential conversions.

The April 5 stop - work order cites the new owner for an «illegal conversion» of a commercial space to dwelling units.

She has voted in favor of child protection legislation, including making illegal sexual orientation conversion therapy on minors, public safety initiatives, and various animal protection bills.

Focus Features won an intense bidding war for the rights to this film adaptation of Garrard Conley's memoir about a young man forced into the often abusive and increasingly illegal practice of «conversion therapy» to «cure» his homosexuality.

Of course, it's illegal, because that conversion involves removing DRM.

Currently, the main direct causes of deforestation are generally agreed to be: (i) conversion to agriculture (particularly to industrial perennial crops); (ii) unsustainable logging (notably illegal logging); (iii) infrastructure development; and (iv) forest fires.

The official statement on drivers of deforestation agreed to by parties to the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2013 does not specifically address illegal conversion for commercial agriculture.

While the Indonesian government does not report the source of the illegal wood, its own data demonstrates the growing importance of «conversion timber.»

However, numerous studies show that failure to address the true drivers of deforestation — high demand for wood products, expansion of industrial agriculture, illegal and unplanned forest conversion, conflicts over land and resources, and extractive activities — will generally undermine any effort to «protect» forests through «payment for ecosystem services» schemes such as REDD.

A report on the threat posed to the last remaining populations of orangutans by illegal logging and the conversion of forest land to oil palm plantations..

Increasingly, this work is highlighting illegal land use / conversion, the role of conversion timber in the global sourcing of wood fiber, and agricultural supply chains from legal or zero - deforestation zones.

In this country where illegal logging runs rampant, forest loss from tree felling and conversion to agriculture is cited as the cause of flooding, acute water shortages, rapid soil erosion, river siltation, and mudslides that have taken lives, destroyed properties, and wreaked environmental damage.

Early in his term as New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg created an analytics task force that crunched massive amounts of data gathered from all over the city to determine which illegal conversions (structures cut up into many smaller units without the appropriate inspections and licensing) were most likely to be fire hazards.

Some real estate agents don't think they need to tell the home buyer about something like an illegal home addition or conversion, or the fact that the agent is really working on behalf of the seller and not the buyer.

242 DOS 97 Matter of DOS v. Hinds - deposits; proper business practices; fraudulent practices; due process; exparte proceeding is proper where there is evidence of proper service of process; unlawful retention of deposit monies constitutes larceny; illegal exercise of right of ownership over principals» funds is conversion; broker's illegal retention of deposit monies of principals in four, separate real estate transactions is a fraudulent practice; broker's failure to pay lawfully obtained judgments without a showing that he is unable to do so is a demonstration of untrustworthiness; license revocation; restitution with interest

107 DOS 98 Matter of DOS v. Sosis - subject matter jurisdiction; due process; failure to appear at hearing; proper business practices; deposits; fraudulent practice; DOS fails its burden of proof; DOS has subject matter jurisdiction if at the time the disciplinary proceeding was commenced by proper service of a notice of hearing and complaint the party was (i) licensed to engage in regulated real estate activities, or (ii) an applicant for either a license or for the renewal of a license to engage in regulated real estate activities, or (iii) eligible to automatically renew the prior license under the two - year limitation provision of RPL § 441 (2); ex parte hearing is permissible upon proof of proper notice of hearing; DOS has subject matter jurisdiction where party was licensed at the time proceeding was commenced and, where at time of hearing, although not licensed was eligible to automatically apply to renew pursuant to RPL § 441 (2); licensee operated a real estate brokerage business under an unlicensed name; licensee unlawfully retains deposit funds after deposit monies were delivered on the condition that same were to be disbursed only on the principal's consent and approval and said consent and approval was not given; licensee's illegal exercise of right of ownership over his principal's funds spawns conversion and constitutes a fraudulent practice; DOS fails its burden of proof to establish licensee failed to deposit trust funds in a segregated escrow account, engaged in fraud and changed business location without notice to DOS; restitution ordered in the amount of $ 1,900 plus interest, fine of $ 1,000 and any further application for licensure shall not be considered until applicant pays said fine and provides proof of payment of restitution