Sentence examples for tackle deforestation from inspiring English sources

Ms Silva had some real achievements in her time as a minister, including programmes to tackle deforestation in the Amazon.

Unlike the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, a new treaty is expected to tackle deforestation, which alone accounts for 20percentt of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

But international efforts to tackle deforestation can only succeed if they involve national parliaments, which will lay the groundwork for a global deal in 2015.

Brazil, like other Amazonian countries, has struggled to tackle deforestation partly because environmental authorities are constantly outnumbered and outgunned by loggers, ranchers and farmers.

The campaign aims at embarrassing the World Bank for dedicating $600m£390m0m) to tackle deforestation in 2008 and sitting on 90% of that money.

But in a sign that recent efforts to tackle deforestation may be working, Indonesian forest losses bucked their recent trend by falling to their lowest level in a decade in 2013.

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The company is committed to tackling deforestation, child labour, water use in agriculture, rural development, fisheries and animal welfare.

Not that tackling deforestation has become a priority for the government anyway; it's just that now it's politically prudent to pretend that it is.

But tackling deforestation has proven vastly complex, and with tens of thousands of franchises, the company faces super-sized challenges to meeting its goals.

It sets out in principle deals on tackling deforestation and providing wind turbines, solar panels and other low-carbon technology to developing nations.