Sentence examples for like redd from inspiring English sources

Players like Redd, who was contacted by about 25 to 30 teams Monday, when the N.C.A.A.'s sanctions were announced, are in high demand.

He said that programs like REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), a United Nations effort to make forest protection in the developing world a priority in combating climate change, needs to move from discussion and pilot studies to serious and widespread action.

A program like REDD is aimed right at the heart of the poverty alleviation that is the key to both human and environmental flourishing.

Indigenous people are an essential part of the equation when it comes to fighting climate change and the future of our planet – and programs like REDD recognize and support that.

However, the biodiversity value, ecosystem services provided by these natural areas, and potential for inclusion in new projects like REDD, can help overcome the potential high opportunity cost of conserving these lands.

We'd like to think that Redd Foxx would approve.

Were Carnegie alive to read this grievous book, he would clutch his chest like Redd Foxx in "Sanford and Son," smile wanly for a few minutes (he didn't like to make others feel bad), then keel over into his cornflakes.

The set also contains perhaps Jackson's best song title, the Redd Foxx-like "Greasy Two By Four".

Norway, which thanks to its moral seriousness, dedicated diplomacy and stacks of petrokroner has been playing something of a blinder on forest conservation in recent years, has entered a number of bilateral agreements whereby it pays for forest conservation in a REDD-like manner.

In this paper we illustrate how one could use LULC change projections to establish a baseline of deforestation to set eligibility and cap requirements in a global REDD-like program instead of relying on historic deforestation rates [88].

Using projected LULC maps instead of historic deforestation rates to guide a global REDD-like program avoids the perverse result of rewarding countries that aggressively deforested in the immediate past.