... 'a scarce presence' by the State were identified as key factors in rising Amazon deforestation last week. The diagnosis was delivered to the 3rd International Congress on Bioenergy last week by WWF- ...
ROME, July 16 (UPI) -- A global survey to assess deforestation will be conducted by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization and its partners, the U.N. organization in Rome said.
... more responsive to environmental concerns.
"Rather than being dominated by rural farmers, tropical deforestation is increasingly driven by major industries—especially large-scale farming, mining, and ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Amazon deforestation jumped 69 percent in the past 12 months - the first such increase in three years - as rising demand for soy and cattle pushes farmers and ...
Brazil sets out a plan to end net deforestation by 2015, but with no targets on emission cuts.
... in order to achieve any degree of permanence, legitimacy and effectiveness," said Solheim.
Deforestation is responsible for about 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and reducing it is ...
... criticised by WWF today. The European Commission's communication on reducing emissions from deforestation and a legislative proposal to tackle the problem of illegal logging are unlikely to meet ...
... communities, efforts by rich countries to combat climate change by funding reductions in deforestation in developing countries will fail, and could even unleash a devastating wave of forest loss, ...
In the Brazilian Amazon rain forest, a nongovernmental organization is using satellites to uncover deforestation the Brazilian government doesn't find.
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon forests has flipped from a decreasing to an increasing trend, according to new annual figures released yesterday by the country's space agency INPE...
... allocate resources to combat illegally set fires and clearing.
"The link between drought and deforestation is very sensitive," Randerson said. "If the climate warms and there are more droughts, it ...
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon forests has flipped from a decreasing to an increasing trend, according to new annual figures recently released by the country's space agency INPE.
Responsible ecotourism in the Amazon tributary of the Aripuana River, could help reduce deforestation and help to protect one in ten of the world's species...
... per capita income of people living in 286 Brazilian Amazon municipalities with varying levels of deforestation. The Amazon is one of the least developed regions in Brazil, but is also one of the most ...
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climate bill, Congress plans to ask the National Academy of
Sciences to study how biofuel production in the Midwest can shift
food production abroad, stimulating a wave of deforestation.
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