Sentences with phrase «illegal deforestation»

Green groups and local residents are working together to stop illegal deforestation and promote sustainable harvesting.

However, there are some ways in which addressing illegal deforestation from commercial agriculture might actually be easier than dealing with illicit timber markets.

The measure seeks to prevent loans from getting to illegal deforestation projects.

Other targets announced by Rousseff include 12 million hectares of reforestation, 5 million hectares of crops - livestock - forestry integration, the end of illegal deforestation, and meeting 45 % of the country's energy needs with renewables — up from a 40 % share today — largely thanks to hydroelectricity and sugarcane ethanol.

Although Brazil is the country that, for the past ten years, has been offering major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions due to the fight against illegal deforestation in the Amazon, we must do more!

This briefing was submitted to the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market along with a sign - on letter from over 60 indigenous organizations and NGOs from Peru, Europe, and the United States calling for United Cacao to be removed from trading on AIM for its breaches of AIM rules and ongoing illegal deforestation for palm oil and cacao in the Peruvian Amazon.

Replanting forests, restoring degraded pastureland, promoting low - carbon farm practices, and ending illegal deforestation in the Amazon.

This is especially true for companies coming from the U.S. because in some countries illegal deforestation makes up a huge chunk of lump charcoal production.

Clients already include giants like HSBC and Orange as well as the Bingo Association and campaigners against illegal deforestation.

... the «smoking gun» which Greenpeace claims links companies to illegal deforestation amounts to no more than an allegation that trade that has been «contaminated» with some beef from farms that had extended into rainforest.

Recent illegal deforestation of the Monarch's overwintering grounds have led to a drastic reduction in the butterfly's population.

The first episode, which tries to propel the story by vaulting the viewer back and forth between Texas, Syria and Indonesia (call it the «Game of Thrones» effect), ends with a bit of a cliffhanger in Indonesia, when Ford, after viewing massive illegal deforestation in a supposedly protected national park, intones: «This is unbelievable... I can't wait to see the Minister of Forestry, I can't wait.»

Kajir has served as chief executive officer of the Environmental Law Centre in Port Moresby and was the lead attorney in a Supreme Court case aimed at stopping foreign timber companies» large - scale, illegal deforestation practices, often accompanied by threats of harm to local landholders who dare to challenge them.

Illegal deforestation takes on many forms around the world, and according to new research released today by Ecosystem Marketplace publisher Forest Trends it is more rampant than previously understood.

Timber from tropical deforestation, and particularly illegal deforestation, undercuts landowners who are managing their forests sustainably.

To meet this target it will eliminate illegal deforestation, restore and reforest 12 million hectares of degraded land and boosts its share of renewables in the energy mix to 45 %.

The new code, which will face a final vote in February or March before going to President Dilma Rousseff for approval, would maintain the headline 80 percent figure in the Amazon, but grant amnesty for illegal deforestation through July 2008 on properties up to 400 hectares (1000 acres)(some greens fear worry the deadline may shift in the future).

This grant supports Goldman Prize winner Silas Siakor who is working to protect Liberia's rainforest from logging using innovative smartphone technology that empowers communities to monitor and report illegal deforestation activities.

The REDD Readiness Preparation Proposals that countries submit to the UN-REDD Programme and the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility in hopes of securing upfrontreadiness» funding rarely mention governance issues or the extent to which illegal deforestation for commercial agriculture has been the biggest recent driver of deforestation, according to Lawson, and even fewer propose methods for addressing illegal versus planned and legal deforestation.

The Orangutan snack was a spoof on KitKat for a campaign last year against Nestle and HSBC over the two company's dealings with Indonesian palm oil producer Sinar Mas, whom Greenpeace accused of illegal deforestation.

On Monday, Brazil said it would cut emissions to 43 percent of 2005 levels in the next 15 years, stop illegal deforestation and reforest 30 million acres of land.

JBS - Friboi, the world's largest meat processor, announced it would stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, while several banks were sued for failing to follow lending safeguards designed to prevent public finance from being used to subsidize deforestation.

However, the «smoking gun» which Greenpeace claims links companies to illegal deforestation amounts to no more than an allegation that trade that has been «contaminated» with some beef from farms that had extended into rainforest.

With this disposition, the Brazilian government hopes to stop around 2,6 billion Reais a year (about 1,3 billion US dollars) in financing to illegal deforestation projects.

Investigations out of EIA's U.S. office have also come across RSPO failures as part of research to understand the roots and financing of new, illegal deforestation for oil palm and other agro-commodity crops in the Peruvian Amazon.

On the land - use front, Brazil reiterated its promise to end illegal deforestation and restore 12 million hectares of forest by 2030 — mostly by continuing to implement its Forest Code, which was overhauled two years ago and amended last year to create incentives for the country's six million private landowners to join the Rural Environmental Registry System (Cadastro Ambiental Rural / «CAR»), which is linked to a satellite monitoring system that tracks land use.

HSBC has sold its shares in Sinar Mas, the Indonesian palm oil producer accused by Greenpeace of illegal deforestation, after becoming the latest target of the environmental NGO's anti-deforestation protests.

Most of this is illegal deforestation, due to aggressive agriculture combined with gaps in policy.

According to DC Sports Blog, apparently Jungle Bird was in D.C. to raise awareness of the perils of illegal deforestation.

After a surge in illegal deforestation, Brazil's carbon emissions have risen for the third year running, according to a new study

The owner of Indonesia's largest conglomerate has been accused of participating in the illegal deforestation of Borneo's Ketungau peat swamp to make way for oil palm plantations.

LULUCF emissions had come largely from illegal deforestation.

Despite this economic turndown leading to a fall in energy use, Brazil's emissions rose by 9 % in 2016, driven largely by a spike in illegal deforestation.

The code includes an amnesty programme for illegal deforestation that occurred before 2008 on «small properties» in a move environmentalists warned would make illegal deforestation more culturally acceptable.

Brazil pledged in its NDC to achieve «zero illegal deforestation» in the Amazon by 2030.

Together, the projects being developed collectively by Cacao del Perú Norte S.A.C. (operating a cacao plantation in Loreto), Plantaciones de Ucayali S.A.C., and Plantaciones de Pucallpa S.A.C. (both operating oil palm plantations in Ucayali), are responsible for over 11,000 hectares of illegal deforestation, mainly of primary tropical rainforest.

Instead, his article becomes confused and dominated by the issue of illegal deforestation — the subject of the Greenpeace report.

«British supermarkets are driving rapid destruction of the Amazon rainforest by using meat from farms responsible for illegal deforestation», says Adam.

At the end of last month, the Guardian's environment correspondent, David Adam, reported from Brazil on Greenpeace's allegation that illegal deforestation in the Amazon Basin was linked to a number of giant UK food firms.

After a surge in illegal deforestation, Brazil's carbon emissions have risen for the third year running, according to a new study

Illegal deforestation of our forests reveals, besides to environmental crime, the waste and crude vision of development, which should be banned.

Illegal deforestation has the Mexican Michoacan Mountains» number.