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Through the Consumer Goods Forum, the CDP / We Mean Business Coalition, and the public - private Tropical Forest Alliance 2020, hundreds of major companies have committed to eliminating commodity - driven deforestation from their supply chains by 2020, including companies that account for 90 percent of the global trade in palm oil.

The reality is though, that we can't ignore the ever - increasing depletion of our world's forests and its negative impact through greenhouse gases causing global warming.

«Our combination of field and airborne data on orangutans and their habitat was key to understanding how they move through and use disturbed forests in Borneo,» said first author Davies, a postdoc at Carnegie's Department of Global Ecology.

Through a feature film, interactive app, website and more, the movement seeks to create a motivated community of global citizens who will replant the world's forests and continue to raise awareness and support for the importance of trees in our lives.»

It is an image from an on - going project started in 2011 with the working title: The Fertile Forest, in which Hannah Collins photographs Amazonian plants used to treat different parts of the human body and through detailed field research with tribes in the Amazon basin creates a kind of corporeal mapping of the corresponding plants of the forest, bringing to our attention the fact that, as well as serving as the lungs of the world, the Amazon basin is our global phaForest, in which Hannah Collins photographs Amazonian plants used to treat different parts of the human body and through detailed field research with tribes in the Amazon basin creates a kind of corporeal mapping of the corresponding plants of the forest, bringing to our attention the fact that, as well as serving as the lungs of the world, the Amazon basin is our global phaforest, bringing to our attention the fact that, as well as serving as the lungs of the world, the Amazon basin is our global pharmacy.

The idea, through two weeks of climate negotiations that ended Saturday, was to find new ways to craft a common, global approach to avoid overloading the atmosphere with greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels and forests.

[On a global scale, this supposed positive influence on wood production and forest regeneration was thought to have the possibility of balancing the CO2 increase by carbon sequestering through photosynthesis.

But two decades later, Centre ValBio is taking steps to link this approach to studying and saving the rain forest and its inhabitants with the wider world through global connectivity and technology.

EcoPlanet is the first company to successfully industrialize bamboo, providing a proven model of successful ecosystem restoration at scale, converting thousands of acres of degraded land back into fully functioning ecosystems, reversing the negative effects of global climate change and providing thousands of marginalized people with the potential to change their own lives in areas of the world where few opportunities exist, all while reducing deforestation and forest degradation through the provision of a sustainable alternative fiber for timber and fiber manufacturing industries.

Unless all global forests are included in a REDD policy, leakage can not be eliminated; however, it can be minimized through careful project design.

Just leave it to so called environmentalists to mismanage forests for years and years through endless lawsuits and misguided legislation, burn said forests to the ground and then claim global warming did it.

Researchers have warned that global warming must make fire risk ever greater, particularly in the US southwest, even though many blazes begin to race through the dry forests as a consequence of human action.

Forests have been responsible for global greenhouse gas emissions through forestry and other land use activities.

A new study released by Global Forest Watch Canada finds that significant amounts of greenhouse gases are emitted through the disturbance and / or removal of biocarbon (trees, shrubs, peats), which overlay Alberta's oil sands.

An area of tropical forest the size of India will be deforested in the next 35 years, burning through more than one - sixth of the remaining carbon that can be emitted if global warming is to be kept below 2 degrees Celsius (the «planetary carbon budget»), but many of these emissions could be cheaply avoided by putting a price on carbon.

«Deforestation and forest degradation, through agricultural expansion, conversion to pastureland, infrastructure development, destructive logging, fires etc. account for nearly 20 % of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than the entire global transportation sector and second only to the energy sector.»

«In PEFC, Double A has found the right organization through which we can promote our trees outside forests based agroforestry, as well as be part of a global system where constant knowledge can be gained through appropriate networking and deliberation,» said Mr. Thirawit Leetavorn, Senior Executive Vice President of Double A.

In response to the rapid pace of global climate change, MCP seeks to enhance carbon sequestration in rangeland, agricultural, and forest soils through applied research, demonstration and implementation in Marin County.

For example, removing dark boreal forests primarily leads to global cooling through the radiative effects of increasing local albedo [21 — 23].

A fifth of global human - caused carbon emissions today are absorbed by terrestrial ecosystems; this important carbon sink operates largely without human intervention, but could be increased through a concerted effort to reduce forest loss and to restore damaged ecosystems, which also co-benefits the conservation of biodiversity.

Papua seeks funds for fighting global warming through forest conservation (8/10/2007) In an article published today in The Wall Street Journal, Tom Wright profiles the nascent «avoided deforestation» carbon offset market in Indonesia's Papua province.

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).

Global warming is «accompanied by an unprecedented intensity of direct pressure on the tropical forests through logging, deforestation, fragmentation, and fire use,» the scientists wrote.

Global Witness is concerned that Schwarzenegger's investments in DFA conflict with his high profile work in tackling climate change and deforestation, which include spearheading California's efforts in this area through the «Governor's Climate & Forests Task Force».

Global research going back to 1824 in fields ranging through physics, oceanography, biology and geology have confirmed human activity — mainly burning fossil fuels, raising livestock and destroying carbon sinks like forests and wetlands — is increasing greenhouse gas emissions and causing global temperatures to rise rapidly, putting humanity atGlobal research going back to 1824 in fields ranging through physics, oceanography, biology and geology have confirmed human activity — mainly burning fossil fuels, raising livestock and destroying carbon sinks like forests and wetlands — is increasing greenhouse gas emissions and causing global temperatures to rise rapidly, putting humanity atglobal temperatures to rise rapidly, putting humanity at risk.

Just yesterday, in a speech to the Society of American Foresters U.S. Forest Service chief Gail Kimbell says the nation can expect more wildfires like the ones raging through Southern California as global climate change heats up the world's forests.

Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three - year struggle to stop the construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Canada to a global market.

Analyzing deforestation data from 2001 through 2007, a team of researchers from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University found the aboveground biomass lost per unit of forest cleared increased from 183 to 201 metric tons per hectare over the period, largely the result of moving from drier «transition» forests in the southern Amazon to wetter «rainforests» closer to the heart of the basin.

Abstract: An evaluation of analyses sponsored by the predecessor to the U.K. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) of the global impacts of climate change under various mitigation scenarios (including CO2 stabilization at 550 and 750 ppm) coupled with an examination of the relative costs associated with different schemes to either mitigate climate change or reduce vulnerability to various climate - sensitive hazards (namely, malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastal flooding, and losses of global forests and coastal wetlands) indicates that, at least for the next few decades, risks and / or threats associated with these hazards would be lowered much more effectively and economically by reducing current and future vulnerability to those hazards rather than through stabilization.

Rachel Carson, who was a quick learner, would be ahead of us in understanding the devastating effects everywhere of still - rocketing population growth combined with consumption of national resources, the thinning of the ozone layer, global warning, the collapse of marine fisheries, and, less directly through foreign trade, the decimation of tropical forests and mass extinction of species.

The study highlights the need for global efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (as in the initiative known as REDD +) to take into account carbon emissions lost through changing land - use practices and the challenges of reforesting and restoring degraded tropical peatlands.

Running a large - scale computer simulation in which forests interacted with a changing global climate through the course of the 21st century, the Cox group found that forests would continue to take up carbon until about 2050.

Forests present a significant global carbon stock accumulated through growth of trees and an increase in soil carbon.

At the same time, forest area expanded in some places, either through planting or natural processes, bringing the global net loss of forest to 8.3 million hectares per year.

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