Sentences with phrase «into timber plantations»

«They just decided to table that until next time,» said Gus Silva - Chávez, a negotiator with the Environmental Defense Fund in Washingon, D.C. Same, probably, with the worry by some scientists that funds for REDD might incentivize the cutting down of forests to turn them into timber plantations.

Not exact matches

Many commercially grown trees — fruit trees as well as timber trees such as pine, poplar, and willow — can be maintained as tissue cultures, transferred to soil, and then grown into whole plantations.

It consists of forest patches that have been highly degraded by timber extraction, which are sewn into a landscape of palm oil plantations and human settlements.

The timber industry has long dreamed of importing eucalyptus into the South, mimicking Brazil's success, where plantations transformed the country — at some environmental toll — from a timber importer to an exporter within decades.

«It emerged at the international level, through the combination of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low - cost alternatives to supposedly «offset» their continued and excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the «protection» of forests in their countries, (4) the interests of corporations that could profit from market - tradable «offset» credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn «unexploited» forests into a new market for this type of capital, through the commercialization of «environmental services» such as carbon sequestration, among others.»