Sentences with phrase «on biodiversity across»

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CBAN's report also examined the impact of GM crops on biodiversity and concluded that: · Insects that have developed resistance to GM insect - resistant (Bt) crops are spreading across the world.

The group felt that there will need to be much greater clarity on how the wider land reform proposals fit in with the Scottish Government's own objectives in terms of deer and game management and its aims to deliver landscape scale biodiversity recovery across Scotland.

The UK is particularly successful in bringing together shooting and conservation and BASC's head of biodiversity, Ian Danby, who represents UK shooters on the working group and hosted meeting said; «The working group draws together fantastic expertise on conservation and shooting across Europe, from Greece to Finland and many countries in - between.

Researchers say that while PAs can counter agricultural expansion — and many have increasingly called for PAs to expand across the planet amid dire evidence of rapid species decline — the limits on land that can be set aside for PAs means that biodiversity conservation success depends on protecting native vegetation on private lands.

Vegetation productivity or leaf cover can, for example, be measured across continents from space while providing information about biodiversity levels on the ground.

In a move that previously proved successful in helping to monitor climate change on a global scale, scientists believe that space technology could help track biodiversity across the planet.

«This is the first time we've quantified the effect of habitat loss on biodiversity globally in such detail and we've found that across most of the world biodiversity loss is no longer within the safe limit suggested by ecologists» explained lead researcher, Dr Tim Newbold from UCL and previously at UNEP - WCMC.

The specialists are those which are most flexible in adapting their foraging choices across seasons», explains Irene Bender, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre and German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), lead author of a new study on this topic.

The Centre for Alternative Technology has developed a series of practical and theoretical activities and support packs on environmental issues, biodiversity, energy and sustainability for use across the curriculum at all levels.

Andrew Cox: We've got a plan that gives a good strategic approach of how to tackle the impacts of cats across Australia on our biodiversity, but unfortunately very little has been implemented.

On the mainland and offshore islands, across every single ecological niche from the arid lands to our World Heritage rainforests, it's mopping up the remnants of Australia's rich and unique biodiversity.

The conference is focused on mainstreaming biodiversity across relevant sectors, especially agriculture, fisheries, forestry and tourism.

Mermaid I goes on another biodiversity trip across 500 nautical miles from the heart of Raja Ampat all the way to Ambon considered one of the best macro destinations in Indonesia.

His most ambitious project to date, British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah's Purple is an immersive, six - channel video installation which charts the incremental shifts in climate change across the planet and its effects on human communities, biodiversity and the wilderness.

The coming SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) framework includes a proposed set of four goals (oceans, climate, biodiversity and freshwater), which is a de-facto example of applying planetary boundary thinking to create a global framework for safeguarding a stable environment on the planet for societies and communities across the world.

The issues highlighted in the document include: reconnect science and policy, catalyze rapid and transformative changes in human behavior towards the environment, develop new insights on water - land interactions, accelerate the implementation of environmentally - friendly renewable energy, integrate biodiversity across the environmental and economic agendas, manage the unintended consequences of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and develop a new approach for minimizing risks of novel technologies and chemicals.

In addition to the total value (US$) of PES programs, this new analysis, which is based on data from Forest Trends» Ecosystem Marketplace, also tracks the total number, size, and geography of programs across three sectors — biodiversity, water, and forest carbon.

Her current position is as Scientific Advisor for Forest Trends» Business and Biodiversity Offset Programme, where she has been leading the development of best practice guidance on biodiversity management and offset design based on experience with private and public sector projects and partnerships across the world (including in Africa, East Asia, Latin America, Biodiversity Offset Programme, where she has been leading the development of best practice guidance on biodiversity management and offset design based on experience with private and public sector projects and partnerships across the world (including in Africa, East Asia, Latin America, biodiversity management and offset design based on experience with private and public sector projects and partnerships across the world (including in Africa, East Asia, Latin America, and Europe).

On the ground, ICLEI will be also working with local and regional governments to take action in areas that cut across the 2030 Agenda like biodiversity around urban areas and sustainable public procurement.

Rising air pollution, loss of biodiversity and urban heat island effect are leading governments across the world to focus on green roofs as a means to reduce environmental degradation.