Sentences with phrase «rainforest destruction»

In its present form, it would drive rainforest destruction by opening the floodgates for palm oil imports to Europe.

Norway's central bank is divesting the country's $ 870 billion pension fund of its holdings in four Asian multinationals over rainforest destruction for palm oil in Southeast Asia, the bank announced...

Timber from the South Seas, a report co-authored by Kuroda, provided the first comprehensive data on Japan's timber consumption patterns and exposed Japanese corporations» contribution to rainforest destruction.

Switzerland - based Bruno Manser Fund claimed the wood could be traced back to Shin Yang, a Malaysian logging giant accused of human - rights violations, illegal logging and rainforest destruction.

Coffee production is a major cause of rainforest destruction, as trees are cut down to accommodate sun - grown trees and to provide firewood for drying ovens.

In addition, we urge them to publicly support the immediate production of Indonesia's peatlands and back a moratorium on rainforest destruction.»

Palm oil production is the leading cause of rainforest destruction in Malaysia and Indonesia, which make 87 percent of the world's palm oil, as well as parts of Central America, where palm oil farms are just starting to make a dent in the world market.

It seems pretty obvious the level of emission from rainforest destruction is a significant CO2 source even if it doesn't show up in your funny chart.

Brazil is the heart of rainforest destruction, mainly to meet demand for livestock grazing and feed.

As rainforest destruction worldwide is continuing unabated, local communities are responding to rapid deforestation of their lands by turning to technologies such as GPS and Google Earth in an effort to protect and preserve their territory from logging

But the world would say if we let Brazil help us solve our problem at the price of more rainforest destruction, have we really gained anything?

Companies must implement a forest products policy that eliminates deforestation and ends the rainforest destruction for rayon and other synthetic fabrics NOW!

RAN is taking on some of the biggest brands and asking them to get rainforest destruction, land grabbing and climate change Out of Fashion.

The Indonesian Ecolabel Institute is facilitating rainforest destruction by issuing «sustainable forest management certificates» to companies that convert natural and peatlands into industrial timber estates, allege national environmental groups.

To earn my business, companies must eliminate rainforest destruction and human rights abuses from their supply chain.

Rainforest destruction in the tropics could hurt farmers in Europe, U.S. Large - scale deforestation in the tropics could drive significant and widespread shifts in rainfall distribution and temperatures, potentially affecting agriculture...

To address the deepening deforestation crisis, Botero said it's critical that Colombia definitively closes the agricultural frontier in the Amazon to ensure the region is not further colonized or developed and to prevent land speculators from generating profits on rainforest destruction.

But is this «driving» of rainforest destruction by UK firms quite as clear as Adam and Greenpeace are claiming?

The zoo is also removing other products that contain palm oil, due to concerns that its production is driving rainforest destruction across Southeast Asia, putting orangutans and other species at risk.

Stay in the loop with news of ongoing campaigns and successes in the fight against rainforest destruction.

«Palm oil - based biofuel is a bad choice for the climate and drives rainforest destruction,» said Nils Hermann Ranum of Rainforest Foundation Norway in a media release.

Dutch: no subsidies for biofuels - driven rainforest destruction Dutch: no subsidies for biofuels - driven rainforest destruction mongabay.com October 31, 2007 The Dutch government will exclude palm oil from «green energy» subsidies as...

In particular, the EU should take urgent steps to reduce the consumption of commodities, such as palm oil biodiesel, that are linked to rainforest destruction and accompanying greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss and human rights violations.»

In the Memorandum she documented the Federal Republic's responsibility for rainforest destruction and called for an end to German funding of destructive activities in primary forests.

An analysis on National Geographic books found Sumatran rainforest fiber from Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), a brand whose suppliers have been linked to rainforest destruction in Sumatra, and, in the most recent Greenpeace report, alleged illegal logging of protected rainforest trees.

Exploitation of fear about environmental problems kept shifting from ozone depletion, acid rain, desertification, rainforest destruction, global warming, sea level rise, climate change, and climate crisis, among others.

APP's policy could mark a major turning point in efforts to disaggregate commodity production from rainforest destruction.

(10/05/2011) The world's biggest toy - maker Mattel has pledged to overhaul its paper sourcing policies after a hard - hitting campaign from Greenpeace linked the toy giant to rainforest destruction in Indonesia by Asia Pulp and Paper (APP).

Greenpeace will continue to campaign against companies globally involved in rainforest destruction.

Today, the world's biggest food and beverage company announced it would stop using products from rainforest destruction.

We're the only species that has completely messed up the earth — air pollution, and degradation, rainforest destruction, ocean decimation, and climate change.

And I have heard of no meaningful international proposal to reduce rainforest destruction otherwise.

Mining throughout tropical regions in Central Africa and beyond for metals and minerals that go into our electronics leads to wide swaths of rainforest destruction as well.

It is the ninth publisher the San Francisco - based organization has helped to disassociate from suppliers that contribute to rainforest destruction.

For example, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other bodies agree that the rush to grow biofuels, justified as a decarbonization measure, has raised food prices and contributed to rainforest destruction.

Since Wilson's 1993 discussion of the rate of species extinction (the penultimate chapter), a debate has been raging over whether we should be worried by the rate of rainforest destruction.

The 2010 figure — 6,498 square kilometers — raised hopes that Brazil would fulfill the pledge in its 2009 National Law on Climate Change to reduce Amazon rainforest destruction 80 percent by 2020.

Staving off this rainforest destruction — and subsequent revival of forestlands — through conservation efforts like the United Nations» Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) program would be a big win for U.S. farmers, ranchers and loggers, according to the report.

Honduran white bats live primarily under heliconia leaves, which makes rainforest destruction a serious threat to their survival.

Friends of the Earth's executive director Andy Atkins said: «Small farms are losing out to big business factory farming - the killer link in a hidden chain that connects the food on our plates to climate change and rainforest destruction.

Church of the Militant Elvis PartyEstablished by David Bishop (nicknamed Lord Biro) in 2001, this party actually has serious environmental policies on corporate power and rainforest destruction.

The cocoa commodity market is rife with poverty and human rights abuses, including child slavery, as well as environmental impacts such as rainforest destruction.

«Increasingly household brands, supermarkets and banks are distancing themselves from Sinar Mas» rainforest destruction,» said Ian Duff, Greenpeace's forest campaigner.

Animal agriculture is responsible for up to 91 % of Amazon rainforest destruction.

Not exact matches

The potential problems are of such magnitude, however, that if we wait for irrefutable evidence before taking steps to halt the emission of gases and the destruction of rainforests, it will be too late (quite literally) to «stem the tide».

For example, who really notices that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased by 25 per cent since the middle of the nineteenth century (as a result of the burning of fossil fuels, along with destruction of rainforests)?

The emergent unity of the Theology of the Americas did little to oppose the continuing destruction of the tropical rainforests, or cruelty to domestic animals, or the exclusion of homosexuals from full humanity.

The destruction of the Amazon rainforest, for example, involves a great deal of brutal and illegal slavery.

During the height of the global deforestation crisis in the mid-1980s, a small group of young people in Manhattan came together with a singular goal: to save the world's tropical rainforests from destruction.

The cows are feeding on «off forest» land to prevent destruction of the rainforest.