Sentences with phrase «working on the deforestation»

With the COP21 Climate Summit occurring in Paris later this year, this new Food Waste Resolution, together with the CGF's work on deforestation and low - carbon refrigeration, demonstrates the industry's commitment to play a leading role in limiting global temperature rises to 2 °C.

This annual event is in its third year, and the efforts of those present would appear to be paying off: Negotiators working on the deforestation text have reached agreement on all but a pair of issues, which will likely be kicked up to environment ministers.

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Twelve of the world's leading cocoa and chocolate companies have agreed to collectively work towards ending deforestation and forest degradation in the global cocoa supply chain, with an initial focus on Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana...

S / he will focus on ensuring that all our key partners and stakeholders within our Corporate Advisory, forest products and no deforestation work in Europe are effectively managed, retained and further developed.

When the Rainforest Alliance was founded in 1987, our work focused on the deforestation crisis in Central America.

Furthermore, UTZ works on the landscape - based adaptation planning project with Malawian tea smallholder farmers which will not only address the effects of climate change on tea, but also tackle such environmental impacts as land degradation, deforestation and availability of clean water.

«The challenges we work on are more urgent than ever: climate change, deforestation, systemic poverty and inequality are increasingly intertwined with the way we manage land and produce food and forest products.

Despite many of the big players in the cocoa and chocolate supply chain working on sustainability issues like trying to eradicate child labor and stopping environmental damage like deforestation, the efforts of companies and governments have very little influence, according to the Cocoa Barometer 2018.

REDD + Offset Working Group (stateredd.org) was established in February 2011 as a result of a Memorandum of Understanding signed in November 2010 as part of a collaborative effort between the Governors of California, Chiapas and Acre to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (known as «REDD +») and create policies to provide economic incentives for forest conservation by placing a value on living forests and their ecosystems.

I'm working on a big project on the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, so I would never cut a tree.

But he said he was confident that this would work, pointing to the example of Harrison Ford, who focuses on Indonesian deforestation:

In the absence of being able to make that policy call at this time on dangerous interference, what we're doing as an interim measure is working bottom up to see how aggressive can we be in finding a pathway to low - carbon power generation from coal, because that accounts for more than 50 percent of emissions; how aggressive can we be in transitioning to a much greater diversity of fuel supply than petroleum, and vehicle technology, and that's 20 percent of emissions; and then what can we do much more rapidly to halt deforestation, which is 20 percent of emissions.

The Nature Conservancy did an avoided deforestation project (a forest carbon project) in Peru, and worked with the government there to put specific restrictions on an area that had been suffering from illegal logging.

On the other hand, we know that there is a good deal of deforestation going on, which works in the opposite direction (and which is included in the estimates of anthropogenic CO2 emissionsOn the other hand, we know that there is a good deal of deforestation going on, which works in the opposite direction (and which is included in the estimates of anthropogenic CO2 emissionson, which works in the opposite direction (and which is included in the estimates of anthropogenic CO2 emissions).

More than 200 companies have committed to set emissions - reduction targets based on what the science says is necessary to prevent the worst effects of climate change, nearly 600 are working toward deforestation - free supply chains, and 84 have committed to source 100 percent renewable energy.

To date, most international funding to reduce deforestation has concentrated on the important work of capacity building and policy reform.

The Working Group on Performance - based Payments to Reduce Tropical Deforestation considered ways to mobilize additional funding from high - income countries to reduce deforestation in tropical forests and to shift the composition of the funding to pay tropical forest countries for acDeforestation considered ways to mobilize additional funding from high - income countries to reduce deforestation in tropical forests and to shift the composition of the funding to pay tropical forest countries for acdeforestation in tropical forests and to shift the composition of the funding to pay tropical forest countries for actual results.

Meanwhile, negotiations starting today on SBSTA (Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice) text prepared in June threatens to roll back elements of the subsequent six months of negotiation work on REDD, the part of the proposed new climate treaty intended to reduce the 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and degradation of tropical forests.

The eighth largest economy in Latin America, Ecuador seeks to augment its work on reducing deforestation to cut GHG emissions and fight climate change, as well as to improve rural livelihoods and protect the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities.

RSPB highlighted their current work in forests, focusing on their international campaigns like the Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project, whose on - the - ground work is making a difference to places like the Harapan and the Sabangau rainforests, on the front line of advancing wave oil palm which is driving deforestation and the corrupt conversion of forest for plantation concessions.

This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole,» «We redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy,» Ottmar Edenhofer, IPCC working group on Mitigation of Climate Change 2008 to 2015.

He had been working on the contribution of deforestation to global warming for a long time, and Balbina was, among other things, killing trees and releasing greenhouse gases.

Much of Adeso's work is rooted in the notion that people's livelihoods are inextricably linked to natural resources and a healthy environment, which is why its programs have a strong focus on stopping deforestation and the illegal charcoal trade, protecting and regenerating pastoralists» rangeland and promoting food security.

Meridian is proud to have helped the NGOs and companies that participated in the High Carbon Stock Convergence Working Group reach agreement on a unified approach to implementing no deforestation commitments See public announcement and full agreement here.

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It also focuses on the 2013 opening of the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) and the adoption of a Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) in developing countries «Rulebook», as well as the organization's work on adaptation, energy and resilience.

Jeff Horowitz: It was very important to me personally to link the Years story to the work we've been doing with the Consumer Good Forum on taking deforestation out of major manufacturing supply chains.

16 November 2010 Governors from the US state of California, the Brazilian state of Acre, and the Mexican state of Chiapas have taken concrete steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) by creating a working group designed to help Acre and Chiapas generate REDD credits that can be recognized by California's Air Resources Board (ARB) and sold as offsets to industrial emitters in California once the state's mandatory cap on greenhouse gas emissions goes into effect at the end of next year.

This team, which is working in close coordination with other initiatives to address social and environmental risk in supply chains, will produce a set of common definitions, norms, and implementation guidelines to help companies and their suppliers meet their commitments to reduce the impact of their supply chains on deforestation.

Tonytiuhml could use some help: I'm working on this presentation for my Speech class on deforestation.

«The wealthy countries are very smart, approving protocols, holding big speeches on the need to avoid deforestation, but they already deforested everything,» Mr. da Silva said during the announcement of a public works project in Rio de Janeiro.

Paying people who have never destroyed their forests to ensure they carry on the good work may be valuable, but would not demonstrably reduce rates of deforestation or benefit the atmosphere.

In addition to our work with the cities we're developing projects that will increase the use of clean energy on a significant scale, and we're working with countries to measure and value the forests they have to address deforestation.

The proposed explanation (see article: Evidence mounts that Maya did themselves in through deforestation) based on a slight change in albedo after deforestation and a corresponding decrease in solar energy available for convection does not make sense to us (although as we understand this work has not yet been published so we could not read it in detail).

Following the historic election of Brazil's first working - class president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Marina Silva was named the environment minister of South America's largest country, thrusting this former rubber tapper, who was virtually illiterate until her teens, on to the front line of Brazil's battle against deforestation - and of the global fight against climate change.