Sentences with phrase «other ecosystem services»

They can stimulate vegetation regeneration, promote a diversity of vegetation types, provide habitat for many species and sustain other ecosystem services, such as nutrient cycling.

Reflecting sunlight from the Earth by geoengineering would undoubtedly cool the climate - but how will this impact on small holder farmers who depend on un-manipulated nature and other ecosystem services for their nature based agriculture.

«Our findings may also apply to other organism groups that move along corridors, potentially providing other ecosystem services.»

Beyond the nutritional provisioning service of wildlife in the diet, there is a great deal of work to be done to characterize the health values of other ecosystem services and the impacts on health of changes in the condition of these systems.

«It would be nice if we paid them to produce clean water and other ecosystem services as well.»

While REDD + offers the potential to simultaneously reduce emissions, conserve biodiversity, maintain other ecosystem services, and help alleviate rural poverty, concerns over potential adverse impacts have plagued the program since its conception.

But markets that value the carbon storage and other ecosystem services that forests provide are now channeling millions of dollars to forests every year — and leveraging other financing.

This would have huge implications for the carbon stored and other ecosystem services provided to society.»

To look at the broader benefits of carbon finance, it would be better to use total revenue rather than net income as well as incorporate some of the other ecosystem services afforded by intact forest.

Using this study as a baseline, Entergy partnered with Tierra Resources to explore additional benefits, such as hunting, fishing, water filtration, and other ecosystem services that could be gained by restoring wetlands, as well as carbon sequestration benefits.

Conservationists argue that it should be, pointing out that retaining existing forest has stronger benefits for biodiversity and other ecosystem services than planting new forest.

ACR also defines specific ACR safeguard requirements for REDD + projects to ensure improvements to social and economic well - being and enhancements in biodiversity and other ecosystem services.

Indeed, the Suruí have asked the Brazilian Biodiversity Fund (FUNBIO) to present a 50 - year plan for managing payments for REDD and other ecosystem services.

Policymakers and environmentalists alike find the idea attractive because it could help fight climate change at a low cost while improving living standards for some of the world's poorest people and preserving biodiversity and other ecosystem services.

ancillary benefits of preserving biodiversity (i.e. orangutans live in peat forests), watersheds, and other ecosystem services (some of which may also result in payments for landowners in the future)

Improving the understanding of carbon sequestration and other ecosystem services that coastal and marine ecosystems provide in Abu Dhabi.

• Marine systems — Global warming - related marine - species redistribution and marine - biodiversity reduction in sensitive regions impacts productivity of fisheries and other ecosystem services.

Marine systems: Marine systems Due to projected climate change by the mid 21st century and beyond, global marine - species redistribution and marine - biodiversity reduction in sensitive regions will challenge the sustained provision of fisheries productivity and other ecosystem services (high confidence).

Biodiversity would likely collapse impacting food production and other ecosystem services; the Earth would warm to a new temperature regime of destructive extremes; and vanishing natural resources would likely spawn human conflict.