Sentences with phrase «represent global forest»
Isis Alvarez, from Colombia and representing the Global Forest Coalition in the WGC, found encouragement for the future outside the walls of the UNFCCC meeting.
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WWF Global Forest and Trade Network North American Annual Meeting June 12 - 14, 2017 - Greensboro, North Carolina, United States Richard Donovan, Andrew Goldberg and Samantha St. Pierre are representing the Rainforest Alliance at the annual meeting.
As an African grass roots organization that has demonstrated the success of its holistic approach to the interrelated problems of environmental degradation, poverty and women's rights, and governance, we have established The Green Belt Movement International (www.greenbeltmovement.org) to ensure that the work of the GBM in Kenya expands and is sustained, facilitate the sharing of the work with other parts of Africa and beyond, to institutionalize the work and experiences of GBM so future generations can continue to learn and be empowered by this example and to continue to support important global campaigns and struggles that represent the linkage between the environment, democracy and peace, such as the Congo Forest Basin Ecosystem and The African Union's ECOSOCC.
The idea of paying people in the developing world to preserve their forests (known in climate jargon as a global framework to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, or REDD) represents a paradigm shift.
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.
It would also represent the first concerted global effort to reverse the decline in a major natural asset — tropical forests.
[5] «This represents a major breakthrough for all those working to halt the predatory exploitation of Burma's forests,» said Mike Davis of Global Witness.
Global efforts to slow deforestation have had mixed results, Lawrence noted, with Brazil's work to bring its rates down representing a «wonderful success story» while in Indonesia's tropical forests the situation has become worse.
Building on decades of experience in the field, the report offers six lessons the authors believe are critical if REDD and REDD + (which includes REDD plus more controversial measures such as sustainable forest management) are going to generate offsets that truly represent emission reductions and that a global carbon regime will accept.
«To «find» an area of forest that represents 10 percent of the global forest cover is very very significant, with broad consequences for global carbon budgeting and dryland restoration and management,» says Professor Andrew Lowe, Chair of Plant Conservation Biology at the University of Adelaide.
Direct human intervention via deforestation represents an existential threat to this forest: despite recent moderation of rates of deforestation, the Amazon forest is on track to be 50 percent deforested within 30 years — arguably by itself an abrupt change of global importance (Fearnside, 1983; Gloor et al., 2012).
Although the small but abrupt CO2 drop referred to represents a lot of potential forest carbon, it's insignificant as a global climate forcing.
WWF Global Forest and Trade Network North American Annual Meeting June 12 - 14, 2017 - Greensboro, North Carolina, United States Richard Donovan, Andrew Goldberg and Samantha St. Pierre are representing the Rainforest Alliance at the annual meeting.