Sentences with phrase «on deforestation»

The overall impact of these changes on global energy consumption will be relatively small although the impact on deforestation and food security may be considerable.

Based on the deforestation and climate issues, chocolate has made headlines in recent years with experts questioning if it will go extinct.

He is correct to put the finger on deforestation (or more correctly land - use change), however one can not brush aside the role of fire.

This strategy has produced encouraging progress on deforestation - free palm oil.

How this discovery will now shift the controversial debate on deforestation remains to be seen.

More on Deforestation in the Amazon Brazil Announces Plan to Slow Amazon Deforestation by 70 % How Brazil Cut Deforestation Rates to Record Lows Brazil's Beef & Leather Giants Unite Against Amazon Deforestation

Now more attention needs to be focused on deforestation in Indonesia, and global palm oil and timber markets.

When the Rainforest Alliance was founded in 1987, our work focused on the deforestation crisis in Central America.

More on Deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest: Amazon Condoms To Preserve Forests and Reduce Imports in Brazil No More Amazon Deforestation for Soya, Says McDonald's The 7000 km Journey That Links Amazon Destruction To McDonald's

I know all of us, Harrison, Solly, myself and the rest of the Years team, wanted to make this the best possible television piece on deforestation for a broad, mostly U.S., audience.

This annual event is in its third year, and the efforts of those present would appear to be paying off: Negotiators working on the deforestation text have reached agreement on all but a pair of issues, which will likely be kicked up to environment ministers.

Together with colleagues from the International Food Policy Research Institute, Duke University, the University of Alberta, and Costa Rica's Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Ferraro analysed the impact of protected areas on deforestation in Costa Rica between 1960 and 1997.

The Hard Part There was also a practical reason to focus on deforestation fires, Bowman said.

Tonytiuhml could use some help: I'm working on this presentation for my Speech class on deforestation.

A short while ago Greenpeace released a report on the deforestation impact that the cattle industry in Brazil was having and how several major international shoe brands may be

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.

To achieve that, it aims to preserve the progress it's made on deforestation while ramping up its use of renewable energy and expanding its sustainable agriculture programs.

Zooming in on climate change, Proxy Preview highlights one new shareholder proposal «that raises questions about transporting oil and gas by train and several taking up different angles on deforestation that connect ecological and human rights impacts.»

Canadians will have to wait until after the 2015 federal election for data on deforestation by the country's oil and gas industry, The Hill...

Support the development of measures to halt deforestation and forest degradation, such as the EU Action Plan on Deforestation and Forest Degradation, and to address the EU's impact beyond its borders.

At a time when the conversation around palm oil centres on deforestation, fires and habitat loss — and global demand shows no signs of abating — several companies have come together to create Palm Done Right, a new standard for ethical palm oil production...

«The Resolution on Food Waste the CGF Board of Directors has adopted demonstrates our willingness to engage and take action in an area where a collective industry effort can make a difference,» said Paul Bulcke, CEO of Nestlé S.A. «We will leverage the best practices we have developed for the implementation of the existing resolutions on deforestation and refrigeration to engage the CGF's wider membership in the global effort on food waste.

Looking Down on Deforestation: Brazil Sharpens Its Eyes in the Sky to Snag Illegal Rainforest Loggers

The main legal brake on deforestation is the national Forest Code, which requires farmers in the Amazon to retain 80 per cent of the forest as «legal reserves».

The team used the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classification of protected areas in order to evaluate the influence of potential factors on deforestation and project future deforestation.

If you have a textbook on deforestation in the Amazon rainforest then this can be used instead of the case study resources included on the ppt.

Powerpoint showing causes and effects of deforestation A differentiated numeracy activity based on deforestation rates, using pie charts and graphs and including report writing.

The main (see opposite) is creating a template on the deforestation of the rainforest using the WJEC textbook.

I'm working on a big project on the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, so I would never cut a tree.

Even better would be to check for companies that source their cardboard sustainably or have a strong stance on deforestation.

- Establishment of four new bodies: a mechanism on deforestation called REDD - plus for developing countries, a High - Level Panel to study implementation of financial provisions, the Copenhagen Green Climate Fund, and a Technology Mechanism.

This new study, led by Princeton University, concentrated on deforestation in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania.

The climate change messages are completely swamping messages on deforestation, extinction etc and the practical measures that can be done to help out (eg.reversing habitat destruction).

The U.S. and other nations used Tuesday's summit to announce or promote partnerships on deforestation, climate aid for poor countries, curbing methane emissions, and other topics.

I agree on deforestation + aid to poor countries, though I suspect no one will want to put anything on the table in advance

Rapid deployment of renewable energy, drastic improvements in efficiency, early retirement of fossil fuel plants unless carbon capture proves rapidly viable, and a global halt on deforestation and peatland destruction.

The New York Declaration on Forests focuses attention on deforestation or «natural forest loss.»

In between these latitudes, the effect on deforestation on warming has been «statistically insignificant.»

More on Deforestation Stopping Deforestation, Greening Agriculture Better Than Carbon Capture & Storage, UNEP Report Says Brazil Announces Plan to Slow Amazon Deforestation by 70 % Carbon Emissions From Amazon Deforestation Increase as Older Forest Cleared Tropical Deforestation Brings Economic Boom, Followed by Human & Ecological Bust

Ah the tangled web... Report after report has detailed how both the beef and the leather industries have been major causes on deforestation in Brazil.

More bad news on the deforestation front (see yesterday's piece about Japan's collapsing beech forests): According to a new report, Papua New Guinea is at risk of losing more than half of its rainforests by 2021 because of commercial logging,