Sentences with phrase «peatlands under»

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«With more innovators joining forces under POIG, we move closer to achieving POIG's vision: a responsible supply chain that has broken the link between palm oil production and the destruction of forests and peatlands, the exploitation of communities and workers, and climate change,» concluded co-chair Matthias.

The research focuses on 56 peat bogs throughout Europe existing under different climatic and environmental conditions, a scope that could be «unprecedented» in the study of peatlands, according to Mike Waddington, a wetlands expert at McMaster University in Canada, who was not involved with the research.

The importance of the site from an ecological standpoint is due to the richness of forest and peatland ecosystems and a high level of endemic species which had developed under both oceanic and Mediterranean climatic influences.

Under the agreement, Indonesia will establish a two - year moratorium on new forestry concessions in primary forest areas and peatlands beginning in January 2011.

Can we just all put palm oil biodiesel produced on deforested peatlands to rest already: A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme shows that biodiesel production under these

The concern is that under the CDM, carbon finance is used to perversely subsidize conversion of carbon - dense peatlands for oil palm plantations, a process that generates substantial greenhouse gas emissions, thereby undermining any potential carbon dioxide savings from use of palm oil - based biodiesel.