Sentences with phrase «on global forest»

The following data sets on Global Forest Watch were created using Google Earth Engine, Google's geospatial analysis tool: the University of Maryland / Google's annual tree cover loss, tree cover gain, and tree cover data, and the Landsat base maps.

Forest change data sets on Global Forest Watch show loss in total tree cover, which may include both planted and natural forests.

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Data is archived from October 22, 2014 to present on Global Forest Watch, and is available for download in 30 day intervals.

Some data sets displayed on Global Forest Watch include land and resource rights governed by customary tenure systems but that are not recognized by national laws.

The following data sets on Global Forest Watch were created using Google Earth Engine, Google's geospatial analysis tool: the Hansen / UMD / Google / USGA / NASA annual tree cover loss, tree cover gain, and tree cover data, and the Landsat base maps.

New data on Global Forest Watch shows that in some of the world's most heavily forested nations, more than 90 percent of tree cover loss is happening in natural forests rather than plantations.

In fact, there are few alternative sources of information on global forest change.

When used with other data layers on the Global Forest Watch Commodities platform, the new mill data set can help companies identify mills in environmentally sensitive areas.

A new data set launched on Global Forest Watch Commodities helps to globally map palm oil supply chains by showing the locations of almost 800 mills.

... they caution that society should fully quantify direct and indirect GHG emissions associated with energy alternatives and associated consequences prior to making policy commitments that have long - term effects on global forests; for they ominously warn «there is a substantial risk of sacrificing forest integrity and sustainability for maintaining or even increasing energy production with no guarantee to mitigate climate change.»»

Not exact matches

Separately, CDP said French cosmetics giant L'Oreal and Anglo - Dutch consumer goods group Unilever (ul) were the top performers on the global ranking, scoring straight «A» s on a scorecard that rates corporate policies on preventing climate change, ensuring water security and protecting forests.

Nearly 50 years later, problems like rising global temperatures, melting Arctic sea ice, and the demographics putting pressure on food production and resources like forests, can make you want to scream or bury your head in the sand.

This includes work for the BHP Billiton Foundation on the vast Ten Deserts Project — helping Indigenous Australians restore globally significant deserts — and the Great Barrier Reef, and issuing a global forests bond for BHP and a sovereign green bond for Fiji.

in the context of the present government policy of high - tech development based on the global free market, the dalits, the tribals and the fisherfolk are increasingly getting alienated from the Land, the Forest and the Water - sources respectively which have been giving them their living, and are also getting uprooted from their habitat and culture; and women are commoditized and their sexuality, fertility and labour are increasingly commercialized.

Neither are ecosystems, as is apparent from the threat of global warming, and our common dependence on what's left of the world's forests for oxygen.

Twelve of the world's leading cocoa and chocolate companies have agreed to collectively work towards ending deforestation and forest degradation in the global cocoa supply chain, with an initial focus on Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana...

With the launch of SmartWood in 1989, the Rainforest Alliance developed the world's first global forestry certification program and the first to rely on market forces to conserve forests.

Driving impact from field and forest to shelf, Rainforest Alliance expertise brings benefits on a global scale to farmers, foresters, communities, landscapes, businesses and brands.

«Any realistic plan to reduce global warming pollution sufficiently — and in time — to avoid dangerous consequences must rely in part on preserving tropical forests,» reports Environmental Defense Fund.

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.

Business News of Sunday, 20 May 2018 Source: dailyguideafrica.com play videoForest actors and government officials at the Tropical Africa Alliance Global Assembly 2018 Forest actors and government officials, who recently met in Accra during the Tropical Africa Alliance (TFA) Global Assembly 2018, have called on African governments to move beyond policy commitments and supply chain transparency and focus on implementation transparency in the fight against deforestation.

Business News of Sunday, 20 May 2018 Source: dailyguideafrica.com play videoForest actors and government officials at the Tropical Africa Alliance Global Assembly 2018 Forest actors and government officials, who recently met in Accra during the Tropical Africa Alliance (TFA) Global Assembly 2018, have called on African governments to...

A new study by a team of researchers from the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission's science and knowledge service, sheds light on another, less well - known aspect of how these ecosystems, and forests in particular, can protect our planet against global warming.

«But if, as global circulation models suggest, drying continues, our results provide evidence that this could degrade the Amazonian forest canopies, which would have cascading effects on global carbon and climate dynamics.»

Forest ecologists watch as Alaskan forests struggle with environmental changes brought on by global warming

«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.»

Indeed, the pessimists among them talk about the planet being on the brink of a «global pandemic» of wildfires as a vast tinderbox of flammable shrubs and dead vegetation accumulates in forests, brush and grassland.

Resources for the Future will introduce its innovative global Forest Carbon Index on Thursday.

In my paneled session on resource scarcity, I end my 3 - minute «pitch» hoping for not much more than small strides toward putting the problem of global forest sustainability — the pure science of which we all seem to agree is largely done — into the hearts and hands of some of these mind - blowingly successful businessmen and social entrepreneurs.

«Most climate models that incorporate vegetation are built on short - term observations, for example of photosynthesis, but they are used to predict long - term events,» said Bond - Lamberty, who works at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration between PNNL and the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. «We need to understand forests in the long term, but forests change slowly and researchers don't live that long.»

Specifically, anger at the effect global warming is likely to have on the rain forests of the Atherton Tablelands of Queensland.

Grasslands and semi-arid regions are not nearly as carbon dense as forests, so on a global scale, loss of carbon storage in those areas because of expanding energy development doesn't have much of an effect on global climate change, said

«Our combination of field and airborne data on orangutans and their habitat was key to understanding how they move through and use disturbed forests in Borneo,» said first author Davies, a postdoc at Carnegie's Department of Global Ecology.

In September, scientists examining global tree cover discovered that while there are 3 trillion trees on Earth — more than seven times as many as scientists thought — the planet has lost 46 percent of its forests since the onset of agriculture about 12,000 years ago.

Pokorny's work, coupled with a controversial new theory called the «biotic pump,» suggests that transforming landscapes from forest to field has at least as big an impact on regional climate as greenhouse gas — induced global warming.

Researchers at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at the University of Kent say that with over 4 million km2 of tropical forests harvested for timber worldwide, improving the way logging impacts on wildlife is essential for global biodiversity conservation.

«Our study's publication on the 50th anniversary of the [sic] 1967 Tasmanian fire disaster is a fortuitous coincidence that helps highlight the global vulnerability of cities surrounding by flammable forests, regardless of climate change,» Bowman wrote in a «behind the paper» web post for Nature.

The golden toad was last seen in 1989 in the Costa Rican cloud forest of Monteverde — and 5 years later, its disappearance was the first extinction to be blamed on humanmade global warming.

For the first time, this study allowed researchers to analyse the effects of the climate change on the forest nutrient cycles, and states that Pyrenean forests can register these episodes chemical mark at a global scale (for instance, volcanic eruptions in remote areas) and the effects of gas emissions into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.

The image portrays a summery Finnish landscape in which the forest has been replaced by polymerase transcription signal (global run on sequencing = GRO - Seq).

The researchers incorporated information on soot produced by burning fossil fuels, wood and other biofuels, along with that naturally produced by forest fires and then checked their model predictions against global measurements of soot levels in polar snow from Sweden to Alaska to Russia and in Antarctica as well as in nonpolar areas such as the Tibetan Plateau.

«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.

Similar to the humans who find themselves sluggish during a heat wave, when water is scarce, Douglas firs also put the brakes on growing — a choice that could have ramifications for forest carbon stocks and the global carbon cycle.

Consequently, there are grave concerns that the rainfall patterns altered by climate change could trigger a forest decline on a global scale.

It also goes without saying that global warming will have an effect on vegetation and the species that rely on the boreal forest, adds Boonstra.

In the scientific journal Nature, they explain how this allows to model and understand the fragmentation of forests on a global scale.

He has written books on global warming, the changing Arctic and the assault on the Amazon rain forest, as well as three book chapters on science communication.

Despite the worldwide campaigns on forest conservation and log bans to promote carbon sinks and help resolve the global warming and greenhouse gas issues, a study from Switzerland chose to take a different path.