Sentence examples for biodiversity poverty from inspiring English sources

The GCX lists companies that "have made substantial, forward-looking contributions to surmounting global challenges," such as climate change, drinking water, deforestation, biodiversity, poverty, and responsible governance, among others.

In relation to biodiversity, poverty traps raise the question of how to improve socio-economic wellbeing without further increasing the consumption of scarce, fragile, or overexploited resources.

"The loss of biodiversity compounds poverty.

We're trying to deal with a whole array of integrated problems — climate change, energy, biodiversity loss, poverty alleviation and the need to grow enough food to feed the planet — separately.

In the last two decades, Brazil's explosive agricultural growth has exemplified the global tensions between biodiversity conservation, poverty reduction, and food production.

The result was more drought, loss of biodiversity and increased poverty.

"India's initiatives acknowledge the correlation between biodiversity conservation and poverty eradication," Mr. Singh said.

Whatever becomes of Redd in the future, experts agree it should focus first on areas that can most efficiently provide CO2 reductions (such as tropical peat swamp forests) while also offering the potential for biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation.

Ecuador's new constitution duly confers on ecosystems "the inalienable right to exist, flourish and evolve .In a report for the British government, Johan Eliasch, a businessman and environmentalist, suggests a virtuous circle: climate change could be slowed, biodiversity saved and poverty alleviated if forests were included in carbon markets.

The second approach, co-benefits targeting, aims at areas with high biodiversity and high poverty rate on top of criteria in efficient targeting.

Climate change is mentioned but as part of a list alongside "biodiversity, sustainable development, poverty eradication, environment, agriculture, health, food and nutrition and others, as appropriate" (UNISDR 2015, p. 14).