Sentence examples for deforestation efforts from inspiring English sources
One of the technical issues negotiators have decided to pass on to the next round of negotiations after Copenhagen is how countries with tropical rainforests ought to get credit for deforestation efforts.
Since the practice is so profitable, criminal organizations will likely continue their illegal deforestation efforts at the expense of the environment and indigenous populations.
But eventually these "avoided deforestation" efforts could be included in mandatory carbon cap-and-trade systems, such as one already in place in Europe.
The "zero deforestation" effort, championed by Greenpeace and others, has driven attention and engagement to a critical international issue.
Thursday brought Twitter support for Google Search Appliance and a new deforestation effort.
However the coalition coordinating no-deforestation efforts among Indonesian producers — known as the Indonesia Palm Oil Pledge — is working to help smaller firms and community producers achieve no-deforestation compliance.
PhD Candidate Lauren Withey provides insight into how deforestation reduction efforts may fall victim to issues plaguing the peace process.
The Brazilian PRODES project is the most extensive and long-lasting deforestation monitoring effort to date, and it uses Landsat and the Landsat-like CBERS (China-Brazil Earth Resatellitestellite) satellites.
A paper published in Ecological Economics [Combes Motel, P., Pirard, R., Combes, J.L. 2008. A methodology to estimate impacts of domestic policies on deforestation: Compensated Successful Efforts for "avoided deforestation" (REDD). Ecological Economics doi 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.06.001.] aims to provide an alternative termed Compensated Successful Efforts (CSE).
Today the birds are still threatened by hunting and deforestation, but other efforts are also underway to help preserve them.
A third type of offset, avoided deforestation, deals with efforts to stop tree harvesting or clearing that would otherwise occur.
