Sentences with phrase «illegal deforestation in»

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!

First, Ben had an article on Spiked last week about the Guardian's entirely credulous coverage of Greenpeace's allegations that illegal deforestation in the Amazon Basin is linked to a number of giant UK food firms:

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.

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.»

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

Not exact matches

Across the border in Panama, indigenous peoples have put drones and GPS technology to use to safeguard native lands and combat activities like illegal logging, deforestation, and poaching.

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.

He noted that «This is in preparation for our deforestation program in terms of degradation which is as a result of illegal small scale mining.

A new illegal trade «alliance» Yesterday, in an effort to chip away at the illegal timber trade, which is a key driver of deforestation along with agricultural expansion, a coalition of businesses, paper organizations and international groups banded together to form the Forest Legality Alliance.

Other reasons for the rebound in deforestation include illegal logging and the invasion of public lands adjacent to big infrastructure projects in the Amazon, such as roads and hydroelectric dams.

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

Rapid deforestation, mainly due to the oil palm industry and other agricultural plantations, illegal pet trade and poaching by killing mothers so their young can be taken, has resulted in the population in Borneo decreasing by more than 50 percent.

«While it has been shown that deforestation rates are lower in protected areas than in certain non-protected areas in Indonesia, mounting demands for timber and agricultural products along with weak enforcement are changing this situation, resulting in illegal logging and agricultural encroachment within Indonesia's protected areas,» said Asst Prof Cook.

Making all deforestation «illegal» «The Wilmar commitment sets a new global standard for industry and creates new constituencies in forest countries among the private sector for improved land - use policies and improved law enforcement,» said Frances Seymour, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and an expert in forest policy.

Polman has made a habit of placing the word «illegal» in front of 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.

In Guatemala, the main drivers of deforestation are changes in land use, agriculture, livestock, illegal logging, and forest fireIn Guatemala, the main drivers of deforestation are changes in land use, agriculture, livestock, illegal logging, and forest firein land use, agriculture, livestock, illegal logging, and forest fires.

These are classified in three groups, one Issues involving the global community are global warming, biodiversity and ecosystem losses, fisheries depletion, deforestation, water deficits, maritime safety and pollution, second Issues requiring a global commitments are massive step - up in the fight against poverty, peacekeeping, conflict prevention, combating terrorism, Education for all, Global infectious diseases, digital divide, natural disaster prevention and mitigation and third Issues needing a global regulatory approach are reinventing taxation for the twenty - first century, biotechnology rules, global financial architecture, Illegal drugs, Trade, investment, and competition rules, Intellectual property rights, E-commerce rules, International labor and migration

Los Katios National Park was placed on the Danger List at the request of Colombia so as to help mobilize international support for the preservation of the property which is threatened by, notably, deforestation in areas inside and around the property due to the illegal extraction of timber.

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.

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.

The concern is that illegal logging in Brazil will now target the micro scale deforestation and will thus be much harder to detect through monitoring.

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.

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

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.

Illegal and legal deforestation, driven by cattle ranching, soy production for livestock feed and logging for timber and charcoal, continues to be a significant problem in Brazil today.

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.

We have seen in Kenya how the detrimental impact of climate change is further compounded by local environmental degradation caused by deforestation, illegal encroachments, and livestock grazing.

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.

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 %.

Illegal gold mining is a growing problem in Colombia, where 80 % of gold is mined unlawfully, with devastating impacts on the environment — including deforestation and contamination of water sources.

Stop illegal logging and deforestation and assist the region in climate - friendly development: While wealthy countries need to act first and fastest to cut emissions, Latin American countries should also implement sustainable development policies that prioritise both energy efficiency and renewable energy.

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).

Experience in past decades shows that deforestation for agriculture and illegal logging is following suit with better access.

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.

Much of Adeso's work is rooted in the notion that people's livelihoods are inextricably linked to natural resources and a healthy environment, which is why its programs have a strong focus on stopping deforestation and the illegal charcoal trade, protecting and regenerating pastoralists» rangeland and promoting food security.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has ebbed significantly in recent years due to better monitoring by the federal authorities and a series of major sting operations against illegal loggers.

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).

A biologist by training, Rudi Putra is dismantling illegal palm oil plantations that are causing massive deforestation in northern Sumatra's Leuser Ecosystem, protecting the habitat of the critically endangered Sumatran rhino.

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.

The suggestion is that these companies are complicit in illegal deforestation and therefore culpable.

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.

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

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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».

In the conservation - only zone, deforestation was 1 percent, due mostly to illegal activities.

But no, this wasn't a statement on modern love, it was part of an event called Marry a Tree, and it is helping to raise awareness about illegal logging and deforestation in the state of Oaxaca.