Sentences with phrase «worse by deforestation»

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Cocoa growing communities, particularly in West Africa, are facing poverty, child labour and deforestation that have been made worse by a rapid fall in prices for cocoa.

«It's not a new phenomenon,» Jaffe says, but it has gotten worse with deforestation and desertification caused by poorly managed agriculture.

In a letter sent to Senate leaders on 24 February and released earlier this week by the Massachusetts - based Woods Hole Research Center, 65 scientists warned that «this well - intentioned legislation, which claims to address climate change, would in fact promote deforestation in the U.S. and elsewhere and make climate change much worse.»

Our impacts in Mexico and Central America are nothing short of stunning: In areas managed by our partner communities in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve, for example, logging has remained at almost zero since 2001 — remarkable given that adjacent areas suffer some of the worst deforestation rates in the Americas.

A 2007 study by Susan Page of the University of Leicester found that one ton of palm oil produced on peatland generates 15 to 70 tons of carbon dioxide, largely the result of deforestation and draining of peatlands, making palm oil - based - biofuels produced by peatlands conversion worse for climate than burning of conventional fossil fuels.

While the broad trend in Brazil was bad news for its forests, there were moments of elation for environmentalists, including the creation of the 12,000 - square - kilometer (4,630 - square - mile) Turubaxi - Téa Indigenous Territory in Amazonas state; some of Temer's most environmentally damaging proposals failed to advance; infrastructure expansion in Brazil and neighboring countries got bogged down by corruption scandals and basic economics; indigenous communities won a series of legal victories and settlements against the state, and the headline deforestation rate in the Brazilian Amazon fell 16 percent versus last year.

The Brazilian government itself: 550,000 Acres Controlled by Agency Deforested Well, not the entire government... The report cited the Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (Incra), a government department which distributes land to the poor as being the single worst deforestation offender.

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.

It may do nothing directly to halt the increasing rates of deforestation around the world, but a new satellite to be developed by Brazil and the UK will allow us to better judge just how bad things are getting and take

And by using exactly the same logic you might as well argue that greenhouse gases from coal plants are not such a big deal because deforestation and meat production are worse...

Brazil Announces Plan to Slow Amazon Deforestation by 70 % Finally some good news regarding forests, well pretty great / less - bad news is probably more accurate.