Sentences with phrase «on deforestation for»
After a one - year uptick in deforestation, forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon resumed its downward trend, falling 18 percent for the 12 months ended July 31, 2014... A combination of law enforcement, government policies, new protected areas, forest monitoring, pressure from environmental groups, and private sector commitments — including a moratorium on deforestation for soy production, which was unexpectedly renewed for another 18 months in late November — are credited for the decline.
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In addition to compromising the indigenous areas (Rio Paru D'Este and Waiãpi) that fall within its borders, environmentalists are also fearful of the potential for deforestation, destruction and even the potential of a gold rush that could result from this official order, as well as the additional pressure on social problems.
The Orangutan snack was a spoof on KitKat for a campaign last year against Nestle and HSBC over the two company's dealings with Indonesian palm oil producer Sinar Mas, whom Greenpeace accused of illegal deforestation.
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...
The Manager will be responsible for the Markets Team's Corporate Advisory activities in Europe, with a focus on forest products and commodities linked to deforestation including oil palm and rubber.
In this post, I'll disregard coffee purchased under Fair Trade (which does not have strong environmental standards) and the 4C Code (see this post on Nestlé and deforestation for information on this bottom - rung system, which does not include environmental criteria any of us would consider as being meaningfully «eco-friendly»).
Our love for avocado - on toast in the morning; whizzed into smoothies; scattered over salads; folded into vegan «cheesecakes» - could be harming the planet and fuelling deforestation in central Mexico, AP reports.
RSPO's plans for 2018 build on a milestone 2017, where the first ever RSPO Next — that is, a stricter variation of RSPO rules that prohibit deforestation and peatland development, among other things — was attained by Malaysian firm United Plantations and Colombian company Daabon; and zoos and aquariums all over the world started a movement to educate consumers on sustainable palm oil.
«Industrial meat and dairy has an outsized impact on the environment — it's a major contributor to deforestation, climate change and water pollution, and it harms our health,» said Dawn Bickett, Greenpeace International's global engagement lead for the Less Is More campaign.
Be an active advocate globally for deforestation - and conversion - free commodities, as one element to implement the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Be an active advocate globally for deforestation - and conversion - free commodities and responsible markets, as one element to implement the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the Sustainable Development Goals.
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.
Those nine areas are focused on agriculture (carbon farming), increasing energy efficiency, reducing food waste, eliminating commodity - driven deforestation, reducing the climate impact of packaging, advocating for responsible policies, committing to 100 percent renewable power, reducing short - lived climate pollutant emissions and transportation - related emissions.
Slave and child labor are used on these plantations, and they are largely responsible for the unlawful and unsustainable amounts of deforestation in southeast Asia.
These commitments were strengthened in 2014 when governments, businesses, civil society and indigenous peoples» organisations endorsed the New York Declaration on Forests, calling for halving global deforestation rates by 2020 and ending it...
These commitments were strengthened in 2014 when governments, businesses, civil society and indigenous peoples» organisations endorsed the New York Declaration on Forests, calling for halving global deforestation rates by 2020 and ending it by 2030.
Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the issue has been debated for many years, and the groups» coming together marks a «very major significant step» in reaching consensus on an approach to avoiding deforestation.
Indonesia pledges to halt deforestation The effort, spearheaded by Norway and France, is designed to be an interim foundation for the formal strategy that would eventually be folded into the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change process.
«I think it is very significant for our understanding of effects of deforestation on the climate of Amazonia.»
Using daily imagery obtained via the MODIS (Moderate - Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) instruments on both NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, and combining that with data collected by the WFI (Wide - Field Imager) sensor on board the China — Brazil Earth Resources, or CBERS, satellite, INPE manages to issue every fortnight an assessment of areas at risk for deforestation.
So far, climate change policies on the tropics have effectively been focusing on reducing carbon emissions from deforestation only, not accounting for emissions coming from forest degradation.
«The 1997 - 98 El Niño was one of the most important fire years, and put fire on everyone's map for the potential impacts of deforestation and tropical forest degradation from human activities,» said Morton.
«The findings for Niassa National Reserve are particularly encouraging in the African context because deforestation rates on the continent are five times higher than the global average, and many protected areas in Africa are losing a lot more forest.»
For example, just one specimen of China's Carpinus putoensis, a type of hornbeam, survives after extensive deforestation on the Zhoushan Archipelago.
Even in Brazil, which succeeded in slowing deforestation for a decade, forest loss is again on the rise.
Tropical deforestation and climate change are expected to have serious negative effects on most tropical species, but few species have been studied for more than a few years, and they are usually studied in a single site.
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.
«To predict the effects this type of deforestation has on the relationship between rain forest and the savanna — and on the local and global climate — it's necessary to understand how the transitional forest evolves in time and reacts to disturbances,» explained Yannick De Decker, associate professor at the Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, as well as the Nonlinear Physical Chemistry Unit at ULB.
Jake Schmidt, international policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the key from Cancun will be agreements on issues like transparency, deforestation, technology transfer and financing that lead to some concrete implementation steps.
«Zoning of protected areas and forest conservation on private land, combined with subsidising farmers to increase yields on degraded pastures rather than create new ones, has seen deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon decline steeply since 2004 — although it's too early to say if this success will be sustained,» said co-author Dr Bernardo Strassburg of Brazil's International Institute for Sustainability.
'' [CLASlite is] the most widely used software for deforestation mapping on the planet.
He points to mitigation efforts discussed at Copenhagen, such as REDD (reduced emissions from forest deforestation and forest degradation), which would encourage forest preservation, thereby both helping to put the brakes on carbon dioxide levels and providing more room for many species to move — a plan he calls a «win - win situation.»
The research, published in Nature Geoscience and led by researchers from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the University of Exeter, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, the University of Hawai'i and ETH Zürich, has for the first time shown that increased leaching of carbon from soil, mainly due to deforestation, sewage inputs and increased weathering, has resulted in less carbon being stored on land and more stored in rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries and coastal zones — environments that are together known as the «land - ocean aquatic continuum».
When they plugged individual species data for vertebrates that depend on the tropical forest for food and shelter and deforestation patterns from 1970 to 2008 into their model, it projected that 80 — 90 % of extinctions caused by previous rainforest loss are yet to come.
Developing nations are also making progress on curbing deforestation, which accounts for perhaps one seventh of all greenhouse gas emissions.
Most poignant among these knock - on effects is the deforestation taking place in some areas to meet the demand for coffins.
«(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;
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.
REDD + Offset Working Group (stateredd.org) was established in February 2011 as a result of a Memorandum of Understanding signed in November 2010 as part of a collaborative effort between the Governors of California, Chiapas and Acre to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (known as «REDD +») and create policies to provide economic incentives for forest conservation by placing a value on living forests and their ecosystems.
Today's workshop on «Benefits Sharing and Safeguards» for policies to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD +) also included newly released recommendations for how California can bring REDD + offset credits into its statewide cap - and - trade system with environmental integrity and social equity.
If deforestation played as great a role as fossil fuels in CO2 accumulation, then responsibility for reducing carbon dioxide emissions would not fall entirely on the energy industry.
In addition, the company's Environmental Management Plan called for numerous controls on colonization, deforestation, and hunting [180].
Reducing food waste has an impact on hunger, methane emissions, and deforestation, for instance.
The global thirst for coffee beans has also led us to the outer edges of the earth on a hunt for more farmland, making mass deforestation a huge concern in business.
I do have a question regarding your thoughts on palm deforestation for the purpose of harvesting palm oil.
I usually don't wear slogans because for things I feel so strongly about that I would want to emblazon it on my shirt and wear it over and over again (things like GMO labelling, deforestation, or endangered species), a shirt never seemed like a very useful outlet for discussion.
Specification points covered are: Paper 2 Topic 1 (4.5 - homeostasis and response) 4.5.1 - Homeostasis (B5.1 lesson) 4.5.3.2 - Control of blood glucose concentration (B5.1 lesson) 4.5.2.1 - Structure and function (B5.2 lesson) Required practical 7 - plan and carry out an investigation into the effect of a factor on human reaction time (B5.2 lesson) 4.5.3.1 - Human endocrine system (B5.6 lesson) 4.5.3.4 - Hormones in human reproduction (B5.10 lesson) 4.5.3.5 - Contraception (B5.11 lesson) 4.5.3.6 - The use of hormones to treat infertility (HT only)(B5.12 lesson) 4.5.3.7 - Negative feedback (HT only)(B5.13 lesson) Paper 2 topic 2 (4.6 - Inheritance, variation and evolution) 4.6.1.1 - sexual and asexual reproduction (B6.1 lesson) 4.6.1.2 - Meiosis (B6.1 lesson) 4.6.1.4 - DNA and the genome (B6.3 lesson) 4.6.1.6 - Genetic inheritance (B6.5 lesson) 4.6.1.7 - Inherited disorders (B6.6 lesson) 4.6.1.8 - Sex determination (B6.5 lesson) 4.6.2.1 - Variation (B6.9 lesson) 4.6.2.2 - Evolution (B6.10 lesson) 4.6.2.3 - Selective breeding (B6.11 lesson) 4.6.2.4 - Genetic engineering (B6.11 lesson) 4.6.3.4 - Evidence for evolution (B6.16 lesson) 4.6.3.5 - Fossils (B6.16 lesson) 4.6.3.6 - Extinction (B6.16 lesson) 4.6.3.7 - Resistant bacteria (B6.17 lesson) 4.6.4.1 - classification of living organisms (B6.18 lesson) Paper 2 topic 3 (4.7 - Ecology 4.7.1.1 - Communities (B7.1 lesson) 4.7.1.2 - Abiotic factors (B7.1 lesson) 4.7.1.3 - Biotic factors (B7.1 lesson) 4.7.1.4 — Adaptations (B7.2 lesson) 4.7.2.1 - Levels of organisation (feeding relationships + predator - prey cycles)(B7.3 lesson) 4.7.2.1 - Levels of organisation (required practical 9 - population sizes)(B7.4 lesson) 4.7.2.2 - How materials are cycled (B7.5 lesson) 4.7.3.1 - Biodiversity (B7.7 lesson) 4.7.3.6 - Maintaining Biodiversity (B7.7 lesson) 4.7.3.2 - Waste management (B7.9 lesson) 4.7.3.3 - Land use (B7.9 lesson) 4.7.3.4 - Deforestation (B7.9 lesson) 4.7.3.5 - Global warming (B7.9 lesson)
In return, we will lead some hands - on workshops for the kids and perform a show full of juggling, clowning, and emphatic messages about deforestation and pollution.
For more resources visit thisisgeography.co.uk Lesson sequence: 1 - Rainforests introduction 2 - Causes of deforestation in Malaysia 3 - The impact of deforestation in Malaysia 4 - Managing tropical rainforests (ICT lesson) 5 - Sustainable management in tropical rainforests Ecosystems and hot deserts also on the This is Geography shop to be taught alongside this module.