Sentence examples for halted deforestation from inspiring English sources

We analyse whether these territories have successfully halted deforestation and agricultural frontier expansion by comparing deforestation occurring within these areas with their surroundings from 1985 to 2002.

In the 1970s argan trees were being lost at a rate of 600 hectares a year, but the success of the co-operative movement has halted deforestation.

Some of this finance could flow through bilateral or multilateral results-based agreements that make the transfer of funds contingent on the recipient demonstrating quantified emission reductions - for instance, those associated with halted deforestation.

On paper, halting deforestation should be the simplest way to cut emissions.

DeFries said that some initiatives aimed at halting deforestation need to be quickly shifted.

But to halt deforestation will cost an estimated $50bn a year by 2030.

In practice, however, halting deforestation is hard: much of the world's rainforest has already succumbed to loggers and farmers.

The Wilderness Society said the findings pointed to a need for a national approach to conservation and to halt deforestation.

"Land regularisation is of fundamental importance for halting deforestation," says Carlos Minc, Brazil's environment minister.Enforcing the new regime will be as difficult as ever.

Consumers are beginning to demand that major food companies put pressure on their supply chains to halt deforestation, and the companies are starting to react to that pressure.

DUTIES: Deprez conducts research on initiatives to halt deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon that is caused by soy production and cattle ranching.