"accelerate deforestation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used when describing a process or action that is speeding up the loss of forests. For example: "The continued expansion of agricultural land is accelerating deforestation in the Amazon rainforest." "Large-scale logging operations have been found to significantly accelerate deforestation rates in the area." "The government's policies have been criticized for promoting practices that accelerate deforestation, rather than conserving forests."
Droughts may even accelerate deforestation and are pushing forest ecosystems towards a 'tipping point' where those would irreversibly start to die.
If allowed to proceed, these major projects will "accelerate deforestation, displacement of indigenous peoples, and climate change".
In the closed land system, failure to prepare for this transition will exacerbate competition for arable land, degrade food security, and accelerate deforestation and biodiversity loss.
The proposed revisions would exempt small farms from those rules, potentially accelerating deforestation, environmentalists said.
When combined with population growth and increased access to international markets, it is resulting in rapidly accelerating deforestation and degradation.
The environmental dimensions of such "independent", accelerated development include dramatically increased pollution, diminished water resources, accelerated deforestation and desertification, and increasing biodiversity losses.
It has also unleashed a new scramble for oil, minerals and cropland that is accelerating deforestation and fuelling a new wave of land conflicts from Colombia to Chile.
As urban populations consume higher-protein food, the demand for meat and processed food is rising, which is expanding land use for livestock production, further accelerating deforestation and increasing greenhouse gas emissions by agriculture.
These landscapes are undergoing rapid change because of accelerated deforestation for cultivation and firewood.
Road construction demonstrably accelerates deforestation rates in tropical forests, but its consequences for forest degradation remain less clear.
However, direct quantifications of the effect of accelerated deforestation on carbon (C) pools of these systems are rare.
