Sentence examples for oil expansion from inspiring English sources
Earlier this year, the Saudi monarch signaled that the kingdom would slow down oil expansion to preserve its hydrocarbon resources for future generations.
Shortly after taking office last year, Indonesian President Joko Widodo vowed to crack down on deforestation resulting from palm oil expansion.
On most days, instead, he happily rides the tiger of Russian oil expansion, hoping among other things that growth in energy will spur the rest of the economy.
"Loans and bonds backing palm oil expansion have been steadily increasing over the past five years, amounting to tens of billions of dollars per year," says Tom Picken of the Rainforest Action Network.
Last summer, Saudi Arabia put the final bolt in its largest oil expansion project ever, opening a new field capable of pumping 1.2 million barrels a day — more than the entire production of Texas.
Given that average smallholder palm oil yields are significantly lower in Africa than in other palm regions, such as Malaysia or Indonesia, smallholder farmers in Africa will need support from the private sector if they are to see the benefits of palm oil expansion into the continent, said Barré.
Production results also out, and as expected Glencore cutting capex guidance from December by $1.1bn-$1.1bn-$1.4bnthe weak commodity outlook, most likely to come out of coal and oil expansions.
Their demands are for a stop to palm oil expansions in Indonesia.
Jan Kees Vis, Unilever's director of sustainable agriculture and chairman of the RSPO, says it is "not realistic" to halt palm-oil expansion, but believes much growth can be achieved by raising yields.
Although the rate of forest loss has declined in Indonesia in the past decade, UNEP says the spread of palm-oil plantations is one of the greatest threats to forests in Indonesia and Malaysia.In Sumatra and Borneo, palm-oil expansion threatens elephants, tigers and rhinos, as well as orang-utans.
v Lab Elasticity of labor supply 0.55 v Cap Elasticity of capital supply 2 v Chem Elasticity of agrochemical supply 2 γ Elasticity of forest conversion with respect to oil palm expansion 0.19 Gunarso et al. (2013) μ Elasticity of peatland conversion with respect to oil palm expansion 0.35.
