Sentences with phrase «tracks global forest»

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 finance.

Forest Trends, a non-profit organization that tracks global forest developments, recommends that the Myanmar Government adopt firm policies to reform the forest sector and scale up the national reforestation policy.

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The study is the product of a new effort, co-ordinated by Oxford University, to closely track the functioning of tropical forests across the world: the Global Ecosystems Monitoring network (GEM).

WRI's Global Forest Watch initiative uses the most advanced satellite data and crowd - sourced information to track deforestation throughout the world in near - real - time.

Repeated collections of such data allow measurements and understanding of changes in forest biomass, biodiversity and other ecological parameters caused by natural and anthropogenic change processes - these insights will be essential to assist local and regional planners charged with keeping track of carbon for global climate change initiatives.

REDD + has stimulated almost every dimension of forest activity: real - time satellite tracking of global forest loss; local communities using handheld data devices; long - simmering disputes over forest ownership and use; methods for benefit sharing; nested accounting to meld project and national approaches; the role of women in forest stewardship; the place for certification and reduced impact logging; enticements of billions from donors; open discussion of illegal timber trade and corruption; public platforms for indigenous groups to command large audiences, and many more... the exponential interest in REDD + has been tremendous.

This second annual State of the Forest Carbon Markets tracks, reports, and analyzes trends in global transactions of emissions reductions generated from forest carbon proForest Carbon Markets tracks, reports, and analyzes trends in global transactions of emissions reductions generated from forest carbon proforest carbon projects.

Greenpeace is tracking the impacts this can have on the Amazon, the impacts that the global warming — some two degrees — may bring to the Amazon -LSB-...] This year was out of the line,» Rafael Cruz, a Greenpeace Amazon forest activist, told Aljazeera.net.

Meanwhile the Woods Hole Research Institute reported progress on a high resolution global forest map for tracking land cover change.

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).

While some critics immediately denounced the map for counting tree plantations as forests, others recognized the value of the map in providing a foundation for more powerful applications to come, including global high - resolution deforestation tracking.

«The R - 20 is a global coalition committed to fast tracking the development of clean technologies, climate resilient projects and green investment, and influencing national and international policies,» according to a Governors» Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF), an initiative formally launched at UN climate - change talks in Poznan, Poland, in December, 2008.

Forest Trends has been tracking REDD + finance flows in 14 countries as part of our REDDX project, and our findings clearly indicate that current financing of REDD +, which is primarily from donor countries — and not carbon markets — is insufficient to reduce global deforestation at the scale needed to avoid dangerous climate change.