Sentence examples for end of deforestation from inspiring English sources
The report recommends setting a price on carbon, committing to an end of deforestation globally by 2030 with appropriate support for forested nations, the restoration of at least 500m hectares of lost or degraded forests by the same date, and a ban on new unabated coal-fired power plants in developed countries immediately, and in rapidly developing countries (middle income countries) by 2025.
"The end of deforestation may be in sight," says author Jesse Ausubel, an environmental scientist at Rockefeller University in New York City.
Other targets announced by Rousseff include 12 million hectares of reforestation, 5 million hectares of crops-livestock-forestry integration, the end of illegal deforestation, and meeting 45% of the country's energy needs with renewables up from a 40% share today largely thanks to hydroelectricity and sugarcane ethanol.
But Janet Ranganathan of the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C., notes that the self-reported data are patchy and sometimes unreliable, so she cautions that it's too soon to predict an end to deforestation.
A declaration announced as part of a UN summit on climate change being held in New York also pledges to halve the rate of deforestation by the end of this decade and to restore hundreds of millions of acres of degraded land.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was elected president in 2002, in the country's fourth election after the end of dictatorship, made anti-deforestation a priority.
Many policymakers now talk of ending deforestation by 2030, or even reversing it.
World leaders acknowledged the importance of ending deforestation in the historic climate deal announced Saturday in Paris.
At the end of the period, the constant deforestation rate finally brings down the total carbon stock in the tropical zone, while the other two zones still display growth.
In Bolivia, for example, land clearing to plant soybeans, three-quarters of which end up being exported, has been the main cause of deforestation.
