Sentences with phrase «illegal deforestation from»

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

Not exact matches

Commercial agriculture is responsible for more than 70 per cent of tropical deforestation, half of which is illegal, says forests expert Sam Lawson, an independent researcher who has analysed local and government data from around the world (bit.ly / ForestTrends).

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.

SFI is working toward a future where the global forest community has addressed deforestation and illegal logging and given people a sense of pride in purchasing forest products derived from a responsibly managed renewable resource.

The Nature Conservancy did an avoided deforestation project (a forest carbon project) in Peru, and worked with the government there to put specific restrictions on an area that had been suffering from illegal logging.

Alliance for Forest Conservation and Sustainable Use, «WWF / World Bank Forest Alliance Launches Ambitious Program to Reduce Deforestation and Curb Illegal Logging,» press release (New York: World Bank / WWF, 25 May 2005); certified area from Alliance for Forest Conservation and Sustainable Use, «World Bank / WWF Alliance for Forest Conservation & Sustainable Use: Questions & Answers,» World Bank / WWF, at www.worldwildlife.org/alliance, viewed 30 July 2007; new protected area from Alliance for Forest Conservation and Sustainable Use, «WWF / World Bank Alliance Targets,» at www.worldwildlife.org/alliance, viewed 30 July 2007.

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

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.

Sustainable Development Institute / SDI ($ 49,700): To combat deforestation from palm oil development in Liberia by training forest communities to track and report illegal logging using an innovative smartphone application named TIMBY (This Is My Backyard).

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

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.

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.

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.

Rampant deforestation, much of it from illegal logging, has destroyed forests that stabilize soils and regulate river flow, causing record floods and landslides.

From a political perspective, these tax credits have three very powerful constituencies: 1) All taxpayers 2) Major companies looking to reduce their tax burden while doing something good for the environment 3) Landowners, farmers, ranchers, and the forest products industry (these groups will be eligible for tax credits for reforestation or agricultural changes on their own land; organizations such as the National Farmers Union, the American Forest and Paper Association, the National Alliance of Forest Owners, United Steelworkers, and many others have already been advocates for protection of tropical forests and cracking down on illegal logging as a way to level the playing field by ensuring products on the global market don't come from deforestatiFrom a political perspective, these tax credits have three very powerful constituencies: 1) All taxpayers 2) Major companies looking to reduce their tax burden while doing something good for the environment 3) Landowners, farmers, ranchers, and the forest products industry (these groups will be eligible for tax credits for reforestation or agricultural changes on their own land; organizations such as the National Farmers Union, the American Forest and Paper Association, the National Alliance of Forest Owners, United Steelworkers, and many others have already been advocates for protection of tropical forests and cracking down on illegal logging as a way to level the playing field by ensuring products on the global market don't come from deforestatifrom deforestation.)

Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot, speaking on behalf of the 25 member states after their recent meeting on the situation in Burma, called on the EU Commission «to produce specific proposals to address the issue of illegal logging, including opportunities for decreasing deforestation in, and export of, teak from Burma».

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.