Sentences with phrase «national forest policies»

That finding could have big implications for national forest policies worldwide, implying that as forests go, so too does the planet.

Conservation groups, unhappy with the way their views are represented in the programme, are even more disgruntled by a plan in the recently released draft of the National Forest Policy to transfer the research to the new Forest and Wood Products R&D Corporation.

This Silver Award (alas, Rwanda's National Forest Policy won the Gold) commends the U.S. Congress for enacting a law that aids in producing «just, sustainable and peaceful societies.»

Together they exerted heavy pressure on the Honduran government to reform its national forest policy.

Not exact matches

Building on a favorable national policy framework for community forestry development in Cameroon, the Rainforest Alliance is developing a model for community - owned forest enterprises.

Annette Fredette, 4FRI planning team leader at the Forest Service's Flagstaff office, said forcing discussion among different interests throughout the National Environmental Policy Act process is «both the challenge and the value» of the initiative.

And in the House, Republican leaders worked up a proposal to streamline National Environmental Policy Act reviews, blaming lawsuits by environmental groups for slowing the pace of forest thinning.

National bioenergy policies were found to vary greatly, and to have complex interlinkages to national renewable energy and forest policies (horizontal dimension) and to EU policies (vertical dimNational bioenergy policies were found to vary greatly, and to have complex interlinkages to national renewable energy and forest policies (horizontal dimension) and to EU policies (vertical dimnational renewable energy and forest policies (horizontal dimension) and to EU policies (vertical dimension).

«Forest - based bioenergy policies in five European countries: An explorative study of interactions with national and EU policies» by B.H. Lindstad, T. Pistorius, F. Ferranti, G. Dominguez, E. Gorriz - Mifsud, M. Kurttila, V. Leban, P. Navarro, D.M. Peters, S. Pezdevsek Malovrh, I. Prokofieva, A. Schuck, B. Solberg, H. Viiri, L. Zadnik Stirn and J. Krc has been published in

«Forest Service research is vital to informing national and international policies addressing those problems.»

«(i) assesses national and local drivers of deforestation and forest degradation and identifies reforms to national policies needed to address them;

It is the policy of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center to administer all educational and employment activities without discrimination because of race, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation or veteran status (except where sex is a bona fide occupational qualification or a statutory requirement) in accordance with all local, state, or national laws, executive orders, regulations, and guidelines.

Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, today called for a full Natural Resources Committee hearing to determine whether a high - ranking Department of the Interior (DOI) official received outside payments from a conservative group that seeks to influence federal policy.

September 23, 2008 — Eastern Arizona's Apache - Sitgreaves National Forest, key Mexican gray wolf habitat, proposed a new policy requiring livestock owners to dispose of their own animals» carcasses when those animals died from causes unrelated to wolves.

The Center requested that the policy be applied not just in the Apache National Forest portion of the Blue Wolf Range Recovery Area, but also on all lands governed by the Apache - Sitgreaves National Forest's Revised Forest Plan.

Pet policies for US National Parks, Forests, Recreation Areas, Seashores, Monuments, Historical Parks and Historic Sites.

The aim of the national conference was to present and discuss two policy documents, that is one on forest governance and the other on benefit sharing developed based on the data generated from the project.

We actively campaign to: - Stop the commercialisation of our native wildlife, with present emphasis on the Kangaroo - Ban the use of 1080 poison - Ban the use of the steel jaw traps in Australia (we succeeded in having this banned in NSW and ACT in 1997)- Ban recreational hunting of all animals in NSW state forests and National Parks - Implement a no - kill policy in pounds and shelters to stop the killing of thousands of healthy cats and dogs every year - Lobby NSW councils to provide low cost desexing programs for low income carers - Abolish the farming of the Asiatic «Moon» bears in China cruelly milked for their bile - Abolish vivisection and the fur industry - Ban circuses with animals - Protect Australia's dingo by lobbying our government to recognise and protect it as a vulnerable species

Clearly, forests, agriculture, and land governance must be at the center of Myanmar's forthcoming National Land Use Policy to properly address resource management and land conflicts,» said Michael Jenkins, President and CEO of Forest Trends, a Washington - based non-profit organization that released the report.

Forest Trends, a non-profit organization that tracks global forest developments, recommends that the Myanmar Government adopt firm policies to reform the forest sector and scale up the national reforestation pForest Trends, a non-profit organization that tracks global forest developments, recommends that the Myanmar Government adopt firm policies to reform the forest sector and scale up the national reforestation pforest developments, recommends that the Myanmar Government adopt firm policies to reform the forest sector and scale up the national reforestation pforest sector and scale up the national reforestation policy.

The participants in the research workshop were: Joseph Aldy, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Dallas Burtraw, Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future; Denny Ellerman, Part - time Professor, European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies; Michael Greenstone, 3M Professor of Environmental Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Lawrence H. Goulder, Shuzo Nishihara Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, Stanford University; Robert Hahn, Director of Economics, Smith School, University of Oxford; Paul L. Joskow, President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Erin T. Mansur, Associate Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College; Albert McGartland, Director, National Center for Environmental Economics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Brian J. McLean, Former Director, Office of Atmospheric Programs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; W. David Montgomery, Senior Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting; Erich J. Muehlegger, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Karen L. Palmer, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future; John Parsons, Executive Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, MIT Sloan School of Management; Forest L. Reinhardt, John D. Black Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Richard L. Schmalensee, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management; Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Harvard University; Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; Thomas Tietenberg, Mitchell Family Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Colby College; and Jonathan B. Wiener, William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law, Duke University Law School.

This policy brief highlights that national and international focus on forests and forestry has grown rapidly in recent times.

REDD + policies must address national - and local - scale drivers within REDD + countries, but they will not significantly reduce deforestation and forest degradation unless they also minimize internationally - driven, demand - side pressures on the world's forests.

This analytical report provides information for national - policy makers and international negotiators on what the international climate change architecture needs to deliver to effectively mobilise private finance and investment for forests at the necessary scale.

«(i) assesses national and local drivers of deforestation and forest degradation and identifies reforms to national policies needed to address them;

Information about the «wild lands / bio diversity» bill HR 652 — To make the Wildlands Project into official government policy — the politically correct name is National Forest Ecosystem Protection Program.

From a scientific, economic and political perspective, REDD is a very complicated business that ratcheted up demand for the Rapid Response Team because many governments with critical and intact forest are now pursuing national or subnational level policies for REDD, often without the necessary tools, time and capacity.

In addition to meeting the international and social demands for forest certification, the development of a national system is vital for realizing the government's policy for domestic sustainable forest management.

To follow up on our workshop on «The various levels of REDD: Making REDD work for forest nations and local stakeholders,» AD Partners is launching a new effort to provide policy makers with language that ensures that national and sub-national crediting and implementation approaches are compatible.

It is because they are contradictory that we can begin to develop a new and better understanding of the ecology of the Amazon rainforests, their history, their evolution and the South American nations within whose boundaries these forests exist, can create national policies based on this better understanding.

Add to that lingering questions about whether the final REDD mechanism should be national or sub-national, fund - based or market - based, and how to define a forest, then throw in the ways that different answers to these questions would impact different nations, and it's not hard to see how tall the order was on SBSTA to evaluate methodologies in light of policy guidelines it could only guess at.

The Congress has proposed a provision in the Omnibus Appropriations Bill that would categorically exclude 3,000 - acre logging projects on Federal Forest Land from environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act.

The future of forest carbon finance is very much dependent on policy developments at the national and international level.

The National Energy Policy Act of 2005 requires the United States Department of Energy (DOE), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and U.S. Forest Service (USFS), in cooperation with the Departments of Commerce and Defense, to designate new right - of - way corridors on federal lands for electricity transmission and distribution facilities, and oil, gas, and hydrogen pipelines.

«The R - 20 is a global coalition committed to fast tracking the development of clean technologies, climate resilient projects and green investment, and influencing national and international policies,» according to a Governors» Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF), an initiative formally launched at UN climate - change talks in Poznan, Poland, in December, 2008.

This disconcerting policy is yet another disturbing reminder of the Bush administration's attitude towards national parks — as if opening 3 million acres to logging in Alaska and seeking to approve a 700 percent increase in logging in Oregon old growth forests wasn't enough.

The policy leaves a vital national forest vulnerable to a host of environmentally damaging activities.The new policy was enabled by the Bush administration, which pushed for a new Idaho - specific rule that now replaces the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule — an act that protected over 58 million acres in 44 states.

A new state policy that recently went into effect has removed nearly all protection to over 400,000 acres of national forest, and has opened millions of acres of roadless forests to construction, logging and mining across Idaho.

A new state policy that recently went into effect has removed nearly all protection to over 400,000 acres of national forest, and has opened millions of acres of roadless forests to construction, logging and

EDF's Steve Schwartzman, an early ally of Mendes and a long - time participant in the Amazon land rights struggle, continues working on national and international policies to help bring Mendes» vision of independence for forest peoples and forest reserves to fruition.

Tim Carmichael — President, Coalition for Clean Air Theo Colborn — President, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange Jeremy Jackson — Oceanographer, Scripps Institute for Oceanography Tzeporah Berman — Campaign Director & Founder, Forest Ethics Gloria Flora — Director, Sustainable Obtainable Solutions Mikhail Gorbachev — Founding President, Green Cross International, 1990 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Omar Freilla — Director, Green Worker Cooperatives Wallace J. Nichols — Senior Scientist, The Ocean Conservancy Diane Wilson — Author, An Unreasonable Woman Andrew Weil — Director, Program for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona Thomas Linzey — Executive Director, Community Environment Legal Defense Fund Michel Gelobter — President, Redefining Progress Jerry Mander — Director, International Forum of Globalization William McDonough — Architect, William McDonough & Partners (as Bill McDonough) Bruce Mau — Creative Director, Bruce Mau Designs John Todd — Ecological Designer Rick Fedrizzi — President & CEO, US Green Building Council Greg Watson — Vice President, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative Lester Brown — President, Earth Policy Institute Herman Daly — Professor, University of Maryland, Former Senior Economist, World Bank Betsy Taylor — Founder, Center for the New American Dream Wade Davis — Explorer - in - Residence, National Geographic Society Leo Gerard — President, United Steel Workers International Union Mathew Petersen — President & CEO, Global Green USA Peter Warshall — Ecologist, Whole Earth Catalogue Andy Lipkis — President & Founder, Tree People Rest of cast listed alphabetically: David Attenborough (archive footage) George W. Bush (archive footage) Al Gore (archive footage) Arnold Schwarzenegger (archive footage) Brian Williams (archive footage)

Achieving national goals for the forest and land sector often requires implementation of policy and programs at the local level, where the private sector can play a crucial role in spurring change.

Since taking office, Bush has moved to review, weaken, or undo a host of the Clinton administration's environmental - protection policies dealing with global warming, air and water pollution, national forests, and national monuments.

Whether you prefer riding your 4 - wheeler through the winding trails of the Black Hills National Forest, using your side - by - side to tour the hilly grasslands of the Oahe Downstream Recreation area in Fort Pierre, or simply riding around your property on a UTV, an ATV insurance policy may be necessary to prevent you from incurring undue financial losses.

Whether you have a large trailer that you use to transport livestock to the South Dakota State Fair in Huron or a smaller trailer that you use to take your ATV to and from the Black Hills National Forest, a suitable trailer insurance policy can help you keep your finances secure.

The challenge for the Australian Government will be in providing leadership in its climate change policies and international negotiations to include native forests and national parks as options for Indigenous sustainable development and carbon sequestration in Australia.