Sentences with phrase «measured by deforestation»

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«The measure will accelerate the arrival of infrastructure and people for mining activities in areas of native forest, reproducing in the region the same lack of governance that permits the advance of deforestation and land grabs (elsewhere) in the Amazon,» Greenpeace said in a report by Reuters.

If measures proposed by the Democratic Republic of Congo to protect its tropical forests are not enacted, it could result in a significant uptick in the nation's deforestation rate, according to a recent study.

«The habitats of many chameleon species, and not only, are highly threatened by the ongoing deforestation in Madagascar and we need rapidly to expand our knowledge about the biodiversity, so that suitable conservation measures can be taken,» he stresses.

«(A) the technical capacity to monitor, measure, report, and verify forest carbon fluxes for all significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation with an acceptable level of uncertainty, as determined taking into account relevant internationally accepted methodologies, such as those established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;

-- The term «national deforestation reduction activities» means activities in developing countries that reduce a quantity of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation that is calculated by measuring actual emissions against a national deforestation baseline established pursuant to section 754 (d)(1) and (2).

According to the authors of the study, who hail from the Hemholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), assessments of rainforest loss has focused primarily on deforestation itself, estimating how much carbon is dumped back into the atmosphere by measuring how much forest was cleared away.

Empirical data for the CO2 «airborne fraction», the ratio of observed atmospheric CO2 increase divided by fossil fuel CO2 emissions, show that almost half of the emissions is being taken up by surface (terrestrial and ocean) carbon reservoirs [187], despite a substantial but poorly measured contribution of anthropogenic land use (deforestation and agriculture) to airborne CO2 [179], [216].

The challenge now is to build upon this progress to construct a strategy for promoting a new model of rural development in which punitive measures are complemented by positive incentives and finance at scale for landholders, indigenous communities, counties, and states to make the transition to low deforestation, productive, sustainable rural development.

The typical answer is «baselines», which are the yardstick by which countries measure whether they have successfully reduced deforestation or not.

«(A) the technical capacity to monitor, measure, report, and verify forest carbon fluxes for all significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation with an acceptable level of uncertainty, as determined taking into account relevant internationally accepted methodologies, such as those established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;

If measures to cut carbon emissions by reducing deforestation take off, that could displace land - use change to other ecosystems.

-- The term «national deforestation reduction activities» means activities in developing countries that reduce a quantity of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation that is calculated by measuring actual emissions against a national deforestation baseline established pursuant to section 754 (d)(1) and (2).

WWF and other avoided deforestation opponents feared that rich countries would be «let off the hook» by simply paying tropical countries to cease forest clearing, instead of pushing energy efficiency, pollution controls, and other measures.

The Cancun agreements outline a phased approach to strengthening efforts by developing countries to reduce emissions from deforestation and other forestry - related activities, starting with the development of national strategies and «evolving into results - based actions that should be fully measured, reported, and verified.»

Empirical data for the CO2 «airborne fraction», the ratio of observed atmospheric CO2 increase divided by fossil fuel CO2 emissions, show that almost half of the emissions is being taken up by surface (terrestrial and ocean) carbon reservoirs [187], despite a substantial but poorly measured contribution of anthropogenic land use (deforestation and agriculture) to airborne CO2 [179], [216].

The bill now advances to the Senate for review, and must ultimately be signed by President Rousseff, who has vowed to veto any measure containing amnesty for illegal loggers or allowing new deforestation.

Measures that reduce damage and destruction to the world's forests are co-ordinated by a UN-backed scheme called REDD + (Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation), through which governments and companies agree to pay people in developing countries not to cut or burn down their trees.

Therefore a tool that enables countries to measure past deforestation and track forest disturbance and loss shortly after it occurs would be of great value in efforts to fight climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation.

Environmental groups across the nation have warned of widespread deforestation if the measure passes the Senate and is signed by the president.

Nonetheless, the ministers left many issues unresolved to be concluded by the next COP in Mexico City, such as the global targets and timeframe for halting deforestation and for finance (which in previous versions were suggested to be 50 % by 2020 and to halt gross deforestation by 2030 and targets to provide finance amounting to $ 15 - 25 billion by 2020), the institutional arrangements (such as market versus public finance mechanisms, a forest emissions inventory, reference levels and a national or international registry), sub national reference levels for initial phases, the measuring, monitoring and verifying (MRV) systems and benefit distribution mechanisms.

Powered by Google's massive computing cloud, the interactive forest map establishes a new baseline for measuring deforestation and forest recovery across all of the world's countries, biomes, and forest types.

These briefs tie to the larger study on «Understanding Drivers and Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Nepal: Potential Policies and Measures for REDD +», supported by the UN-REDD programme, which will be released early next year.

The research, conducted by a team of scientists from the University of Tasmania, University of Papua New Guinea, and the Carnegie Institution for Science, is based on analysis of satellite data using Carnegie Landsat Analysis System - lite (CLASlite), a freely available platform for measuring deforestation and forest degradation.

Fire occurrence rates in the Amazon have increased in 59 % of areas with reduced deforestation and risks cancelling part of the carbon savings achieved by UN measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and...

Specifically, they looked at historical rates of deforestation to see how much of their forest would likely be chopped down for pasture, and then they started measuring the amount of carbon in their forest and in pasture land — using methods that had, ironically, been developed and perfected by timber merchants.

The plan was to save their forest and earn offsets for the carbon captured in trees under a financing mechanism know as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation), but REDD project standards require a «Free Prior and Informed Consent» (FPIC, pronounced «F - pic») by the local people, a measure that requires disclosure, discussion and agreement — a process involving far more than just a few meetings between community leaders and a project developer.