Sentence examples for fighting deforestation from inspiring English sources

A similar agreement, the Amazon Soy Moratorium, signed by major food corporations in 2006, has also had success in fighting deforestation.

The grass-roots initiatives spotlighted in "Climate of Change" include those of an activist in Togo fighting deforestation; Appalachians organizing against mountaintop mining; and youngsters in India educating their communities to reduce the use of plastics.

That's not to say we're damned anyway, so let's get on the plane and keep partying till the world goes up in flames, but it does put the issue into balance - should we devote nine times more effort to fighting deforestation than flying?

"If Lula is buckling or considering buckling from pressure from agribusiness to back off of fighting deforestation it will have a high cost for Brazil's international reputation," said Stephan Schwartzman, co-director of the international program at Environmental Defense Fund in Washington.

"If all of these things comes together we can get going on forests now and not continue to watch them burn while we wait for a treaty to be worked out," said Andrew Mitchell, director of the Global Canopy Programme, an alliance of 29 organizations fighting deforestation.

"The problem is that this [U.N. convention on climate change] is about carbon and not about biodiversity and ecosystem services; that's the Convention on Biological Diversity," says Andrew Mitchell of Oxford University, who also directs the Global Canopy Programme, an alliance of 29 organizations fighting deforestation.

Your assistance can similarly make a pivotal difference for not just Prey Lang, but entire ecosystems and communities fighting against deforestation and greed-driven injustices worldwide.

I intend to connect people to organizations that are working on the ground, fighting land-grabbing and deforestation in Cambodia.

For example, Pepsi has committed to fighting climate change by reducing deforestation and by setting goals of using point-of-sale equipment that is free of highly potent HFCs by 2020.

Meanwhile, the Forestry Protection Services are fighting a losing battle to prevent deforestation at a scale unseen since the Nazi occupation.

Correspondent's diary, day two: a deal that makes slowing deforestation easier is a prize worth fighting for at CancúnAS THE last day of the Cancún climate talks dawns, there is some cautious hope in the air.