Sentence examples for lowering deforestation from inspiring English sources

Brazil's Soy Moratorium has been a successful tool in lowering deforestation attributed to soy in the Amazon, and in May, industry associations administering the moratorium decided to renew it.

National studies conclude that PES has not lowered deforestation rates.

In the last decade, rising global demand for pasture-fed beef and soy and changes in the value of the Brazilian Real have, respectively, raised and lowered deforestation rates in the Amazon [13] and have also been correlated with fire [11].

Finally, lowering the deforestation rate may only delay the complete removal of virgin forest rather than preventing it.

"We see that the ranchers that continue to sell to JBS after the agreement reduced their deforestation rates dramatically and had much lower deforestation rates than properties that sold before the agreement," Gibbs says.

Despite its lower deforestation rate, intensification on all cleared land (including pasture) resulted in the least amount of preserved forest after 25 years.

Greater availability of wage labor for the prominent tourism economy may also reflect a lesser dependence on agriculture and contribute to the much lower deforestation rate.

This would in future allow for example the U.S. or EU to class lower deforestation rates or even new monoculture tree plantations in the global South as Northern emissions reductions.

Although estimating the conservation value of myrtle forest highlights the importance of lowering degradation and deforestation of these resources, by itself this is not a sufficient for very obvious reasons.

The land rights of indigenous people in the Amazon must be recognised if their countries' commitments on reducing deforestation and lowering or capping carbon emissions are to be realised, according to native leaders from the nine South American countries across which the rainforest spreads.

The man from the Times wonders if he should cancel his hotel room in Copenhagen.Later that day, I chair a session in a side event on using avoided deforestation to lower emissions for the World Economic Forum.