Sentences with phrase «protecting global forests»

While corporations pursuing commercial interests could end up protecting global forests, poor countries could have a new way to capitalize on their natural assets without destroying them.

As COP23 negotiators meet in Bonn, indigenous and rural leaders warn that time is running out to protect global forests — a crucial hedge against perilous global warming.

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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.

Our global efforts began in the late 1960s, when it became obvious that the clearing of forests and degradation of oceans affects us all regardless how well we're protecting our own backyard.

[33] Field was the instigator of the idea of a global Commonwealth network of protected forests, though he failed to raise political interest for a number of years; when HM The Queen came to hear of the idea she supported it enthusiastically, and the initiative was launched as the Queen's Commonwealth Canopy in 2015.

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.

Protecting old - growth temperate and subpolar forests might prove a boon to the fight against global warming, also because of the soils they currently shade.

«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.»

Early in the next century, forests planted to protect the planet from global warming could be contributing to it.

Global Forest Watch offers the latest data, technology and tools that empower people everywhere to better protect forests.

Protecting forests to stop desertification is a major step towards strengthening our common global environment.

Updated with reader - author exchange below, 9:28 p.m. Here's a «Your Dot» contribution on the many benefits of managing fires in forests, savannah and peatlands — including slowing global warming, protecting threatened ecosystems and reducing noxious palls of haze.

NUSA DUA, Indonesia: Governments at the United Nations meeting on climate change agreed in principle Friday to a system that would compensate developing countries for protecting their rain forests, a deal that officials described as a nascent but innovative effort to mitigate deforestation and global warming.

In fact The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity project is saying «natural systems represent one of the biggest untapped allies» in combatting climate change, because of their carbon storage potential — and that incorporating funding for forests in a global climate deal should be a key priority: TEEB highlights the fact that in addition to absorbing some 15 % of global carbon emissions, forests provide a whole range of ecosystem services that are worthy of protecting.

Other policies could increase efficiency in transportation, protect valuable forests, and so forth, with net benefits entirely aside from acting against global warming.

Without the safeguard, REDD monies projected to help developing countries protect their remaining forests and reduce the 25 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation, forest degradation and peatland destruction could instead allow industrial - scale logging and replacement of tropical forests with pulp or palm oil plantations.

The Mikoko Pamoja model is now being expanded to nearby Vanga Bay as part of the Global Environment Facility - backed Blue Forests Project, effectively tripling the area of mangrove protected and the carbon credits sold.

Protecting and regenerating forests, ecosystems and soils is the most important step we must take if we are to stabilize the global climate, not to mention other ecosystem benefits this would provide, including protecting future freshwater supplies and biodiversity conProtecting and regenerating forests, ecosystems and soils is the most important step we must take if we are to stabilize the global climate, not to mention other ecosystem benefits this would provide, including protecting future freshwater supplies and biodiversity conprotecting future freshwater supplies and biodiversity conservation.

Protecting tropical forests could lower the overall costs and accelerate the achievement of global climate stability.

Despite the high value to society of intact forests, only about 290 million hectares of global forest area are legally protected from logging.

Protecting tropical forests is good for the global climate and good for development in forested countries.

The forest loss is unusual: according to World Resource Institute's Global Forest Watch, the two protected areas lost a negligible amount of tree cover between 2001 and the end offorest loss is unusual: according to World Resource Institute's Global Forest Watch, the two protected areas lost a negligible amount of tree cover between 2001 and the end ofForest Watch, the two protected areas lost a negligible amount of tree cover between 2001 and the end of 2013.

These tragic events highlight one of the most compelling issues facing the global community when we try to tackle climate change, how do we ensure we reach those in greatest need of support, who are actively trying to protect and restore their forests, and who stand at the frontline of climate change?

We need to protect tropical forests from deforestation and degradation if we want to reduce emissions to the levels needed to protect the planet against the worst global warming impacts.

Low deforestation countries to see least benefit from carbon trading (8/13/2007) Countries that have done the best job protecting their tropical forests stand to gain the least from proposed incentives to combat global warming through carbon offsets, warns a new study published in Tuesday in the journal Public Library of Science Biology (PLoS).

Without good governance and a focus on protecting intact natural forests rather than the forest industry, any climate agreement has little chance of addressing the nearly 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions that stem from the destruction of tropical forests.

«They had this thought that one way to save forests might not be just to put up fences around them and create protected areas, but actually to create markets for the sustainably harvested products and services of a forest,» says Matt Arnold, Global Head of Sustainable Finance at JPMorgan Chase.

So to contain global warming, natural forests must be protected.

Jeff Horowitz: As co-producer of the deforestation segment referred to as «The Last Stand» (airing in episodes # 1 and # 2), my job was to work in partnership with Solly Granatstein, an amazing, Emmy award - winning director / producer to create the narrative arc that took the viewer from the global problem of the pollution caused by burning forests, to the political challenges faced by many rainforest nations as they try to regulate this practice, and back to the U.S. for a look at how consumer buying patterns can impact the way forests are protected.

11 November 2015 WASHINGTON, D.C. Forest Trends, a non-profit organization that tracks global forest developments, today released the most comprehensive analysis to date of the United Nations» program for protecting forests and generating forest conservation fiForest Trends, a non-profit organization that tracks global forest developments, today released the most comprehensive analysis to date of the United Nations» program for protecting forests and generating forest conservation fiforest developments, today released the most comprehensive analysis to date of the United Nations» program for protecting forests and generating forest conservation fiforest conservation finance.

«He said if the newly discovered forests are protected, they could provide information about how trees «fix» carbon, and prompt a re-evaluation of the global «carbon budget».

He said business people should support Brazil's government in measures to protect the forest, adding that the current global model of economic development is unsustainable.

The Greenpeace ship, Esperanza, arrived in Jakarta on Halloween calling for urgent action to protect forests in order to save the global climate and bearing new evidence of the mounting threat to Papua's forests.

SPEAKERS Rhett Butler Founder and CEO, Mongabay Topher White Founder and CEO, Rainforest Connection Crystal Davis Director, Global Forest Watch Virgil Zetterlind Director, Protected Seas;...

The fund would cover plans to reduce emissions, protect tropical forests, and adapt to global warming.

The Global Biodiversity Outlook 4 (CBD 2014), while finding some improvements in temperate and developed parts of the world and the ongoing enlargement of the protected - area estate, also presented evidence of climate - induced effects on biodiversity; the increased spread of diseases and invasive biota; declines in species living in forests, reefs, and many other habitats; and the conversion of ecosystems supporting many kinds of life to ones with singular human uses.

Global Forest Watch offers the latest data, technology and tools that empower people everywhere to better protect forests.

is to protect our old - growth forests that are the natural warriors, quietly fighting the global warming battle for us.

A Global Witness investigation uncovered that just a few months later the state forest authority effectively legalised mahogany that had been illegally logged in Río Plátano, the country's largest protected area, as part of a plan to launder «abandoned» timber.