Sentences with phrase «report on the deforestation»

A short while ago Greenpeace released a report on the deforestation impact that the cattle industry in Brazil was having and how several major international shoe brands may be

A short while ago Greenpeace released a report on the deforestation impact that the cattle industry in Brazil was having and how several major international shoe brands may be supporting that forest destruction through the purchase of Brazilian leather.

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Our love for avocado - on toast in the morning; whizzed into smoothies; scattered over salads; folded into vegan «cheesecakes» - could be harming the planet and fuelling deforestation in central Mexico, AP reports.

New analysis of satellite data, reported today in Science, shows that deforestation on the island is hurtling on faster even than a pessimistic projection made by the World Bank 2 years ago.

A 2010 United Nations report said deforestation rates were decreasing, but it turns out that analysis was based in part on unreliable government data.

There's a gold rush going on in the Peruvian state of Madre de Dios, resulting in deforestation, runoff, and, as Science reported last month, mercury pollution.

However, aggressive policy changes could prevent deforestation on 1.3 million km2 of the threatened area, scientists report in the March 23 Nature.

«(A) the technical capacity to monitor, measure, report, and verify forest carbon fluxes for all significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation with an acceptable level of uncertainty, as determined taking into account relevant internationally accepted methodologies, such as those established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;

Powerpoint showing causes and effects of deforestation A differentiated numeracy activity based on deforestation rates, using pie charts and graphs and including report writing.

Investigative journalists played a significant role in spearheading the movement by reporting on the dangers of environmental toxins, deforestation, nuclear testing, and other ecological damage.

Peer reviewed report provides the most comprehensive picture of deforestation's toll on critical climate change safeguard; reveals hard - to - measure forest degradation is responsible for nearly 70 percent of emissions from tropical forests.

The Greenomics» analysis supports allegations originally set forth in a report published last week by Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of green groups, and seems to refute a press release issued by APP that called the deforestation allegations «fiction».

«Before this, the only source of information on pre-2000 forest - cover changes was the FAO [United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization] report, which has been criticized for its inconsistent definition of «forest» and its reliance on self - reporting by the countries doing the deforestation,» said Do - Hyung Kim in a statement.

(05/14/2012) Carbon emissions from deforestation vary greatly depending on whether timber stocks are turned into finished wood products, converted into bioenergy feedstocks, or burned outright, reports a new study published in Nature Climate Change.

The report presented to the United Nations conference suggests that deforestation in Brazil is down 14 percent on the previous year and that this is the lowest deforestation rate since reporting to the UN climate conferences started in 1988.

In the Amazon, deforestation is already shifting once - predictable rainfall patterns, a report published in Nature Climate Change on Thursday showed.

This activity report provides a comprehensive snapshot of the significant progress and achievements made by the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD)'s 14 National Programmes and other partner countries, as well as the international support and outreach provided by the Programme throughout 2011.

To respond to country needs in this context, this report strongly focuses on aspects related to forests, mainly on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, including sustainable forest management and forest conservation as well as forest restoration.

This activity report contains a description of the proceedings of an expert meeting on forest reference emission levels and forest reference levels for implementation of activities for REDD + (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, as well as conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of carbon stocks) which was held from 14 - 15 November 2011, in Bonn, Germany.

This activity report presents activities, progress and achievements of the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD) in 2009.

«(A) the technical capacity to monitor, measure, report, and verify forest carbon fluxes for all significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation with an acceptable level of uncertainty, as determined taking into account relevant internationally accepted methodologies, such as those established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;

In a report to be handed to political leaders in Stockholm on Monday, they will say that the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation have now led to a warming of the entire globe, including land surfaces, oceans and the atmosphere.

The Eliasch Review, a British government - commissioned report on avoided deforestation, estimates that a cap - and - trade system that includes forest carbon could generate $ 11 - 19 billion per year by 2020 to finance forest conservation.

The report, Slaughtering the Amazon, is based on a three - year undercover investigation of the Brazilian cattle industry, which accounts for 80 percent of Amazon deforestation and roughly 14 percent of the world's annual forest loss.

That was the finding of a Chatham House report published on Wednesday, which warned of the climate change impacts of uncontrolled deforestation.

CDP runs a global disclosure system based on self - reported environmental data in three program areas: Climate Change, Water Management and Deforestation.

(11/13/2009) Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell nearly 46 percent to the lowest annual loss on record in 2009, reported the Brazilian government Thursday.

Unchecked deforestation will have far - reaching impacts on temperature, rainfall, and monsoon cycles in regions well outside the tropics, affecting agriculture and water availability, warns a new report published by Greenpeace...

Philip is a Program Associate with Forest Trends» Supply Change initiative, where he researches corporate sustainability commitments on commodity driven deforestation and contributes to project analysis, newsletters, and reports.

In the report «Conflict Palm Oil: How US Snack Food Brands are Contributing to Climate Change and Human rights Violations,» Rainforest Action Network is calling on global food manufacturers to adopt responsible palm oil policies and commit to using only traceable palm oil that is free of deforestation and human rights violations.

At the end of last month, the Guardian's environment correspondent, David Adam, reported from Brazil on Greenpeace's allegation that illegal deforestation in the Amazon Basin was linked to a number of giant UK food firms.

While the first two instalments aimed to better define the climate change problem, the third report focuses on potential solutions — from ramping up wind and solar power, to halting deforestation.

EARLIER today I posted a report, via WUWT, on Al Gore's failed «save the planet» legacy — the deforestation of pristine Sumatran rainforest, linked to palm oil production, that is making Indonesia warmer by up to 10 °C!

The paper concludes that, in order to facilitate efficient negotiations and implementation, as well as streamlined future reporting, Parties to UNFCCC might consider, ex ante, a comprehensive set of definitions for the negotiations on reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries.

Those findings were echoed more broadly in a Scientific Reports paper that found, on average, there was less deforestation and forest degradation in community - managed protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon than in those managed by the government.

The 2007 IPCC report discusses the influences of deforestation on climate in great detail, for example here and here, and devotes a section to policies aimed at reducing deforestation here.

Here's an interesting wrinkle on the ongoing effort to slow Amazon deforestation: Reuters reports that even though tree - felling is indeed slowing, the area of land being burned by farmers is actually increasing,

Ah the tangled web... Report after report has detailed how both the beef and the leather industries have been major causes on deforestation in BReport after report has detailed how both the beef and the leather industries have been major causes on deforestation in Breport has detailed how both the beef and the leather industries have been major causes on deforestation in Brazil.

Walmart does not support deforestation, and as Greenpeace's report shows, our largest markets do not source product from APP, and in the remaining markets that do, we have taken the steps to stop development on private brand products with APP and are looking at what measures can be taken regarding branded products.

Perhaps that's a bit of slight of hand on Greenpeace's part to raise awareness in nations removed from the deforestation by half the globe — it's true that you won't find APP products in a US Walmart store, based on what this report says — but it's certainly no more playing with words than saying you're not doing bad things in your largest markets, only in places far away and only a little bit; and that's it OK because you're still discussing ways to stop it.

As light increasingly gets shined on the impact of deforestation on accelerating climate change, we have a new report published in today's issue of Science which show

More on Amazon Deforestation Cattle Pastures in Deforested Amazon Now the Size of Iceland Carbon Emissions From Amazon Deforestation Increase as Older Forest Cleared Global Shoe Brands May Be Unwittingly Causing Deforestation in the Amazon: New Greenpeace Report Says

The second method involves using force to keep outsiders out of the Peruvian Amazon, reports the Christian Science Monitor.Recently, Matthew reported on a new study saying deforestation leads to boom and then rapid bust.

The report says that particularly heavy bird population declines have been seen in Indonesia and Malaysia, the result on increased deforestation as logging and conversion to plantation agriculture destroys habitat.

A new report from the World Resources Institute lays out research that shows how these local communities in developing countries, which are often dependent on a thriving forest for their livelihoods, help prevent deforestation.

These included those produced by UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS and the World Health Organisation, while the Millennium Development Goals report only mentions Indigenous people in terms of deforestation, he said.