Deforestation in example sentence

About a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions are from land-use change, mainly deforestation, an amount comparable to US emissions from burning fossil fuels (the US is the single largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.)

More example sentences with word deforestation

The deforestation, the growth of human populations, needing more land.

We see deforestation; we see the desert spreading; we see massive hunger; we see disease and we see population growth in areas where there are more people living on a certain piece of land than the land can possibly support, and they're too poor to buy food from elsewhere.

We've done this for a very difficult case, which was for deforestation in China.

So clearly there was a problem with deforestation.

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