Sentence examples for causing deforestation from inspiring English sources

In both countries, the Global Witness report alleges, many of the ELCs are contravening both countries' laws and are directly causing deforestation.

A number of schemes try to certify that products such as timber or palm oil have been produced without causing deforestation.

The meeting today marked the launch of Carbon Disclosure Project's (CDP) annual report into corporate attempts to reduce the risk of supply chains causing deforestation.

He said it was terrific that B&Q are no longer causing deforestation, but asked what we are doing about reforestation.

There are also claims that biofuels are causing deforestation in sensitive areas such as Brazil's Amazon Basin, seen by scientists as the lungs of the world because the trees there absorb so much carbon.

So far, around 35 per cent of Earth's ice-free land has been cleared for food production causing deforestation, biodiversity loss and water pollution, while the egregious levels of methane produced at every end of a cow contribute directly to the greenhouse effect.

They can cause deforestation and damage soils and water.

Conversion of land use from forest to agriculture and pasture is what causes deforestation.

First, tropical logging, no more than logging in temperate regions, does not necessarily cause deforestation.

They should be doing much more to tackle their own emissions, including switching to 100% renewable energy in their operations and by taking the lead in ditching suppliers who recklessly cause deforestation.

And Wilmar International, a Singapore-based company that processes or trades more than 45% of the world's palm oil, just committed in December to supplying palm oil that does not cause deforestation or violate human rights.