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Examples include wind farms in Ethiopia, better forest management in Madagascar, nationwide climate plans in Indonesia and Vietnam, and clean urban transport in Colombia.
Google has become a de facto gatekeeper of information, to the extent that if your site is not highly ranked by Google, you are like the tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it.
By broadening our understanding of commercially valuable traits, such as insect resistance, wood quality, growth rates, and adaptation to climate change, genomics has helped to improve the sustainability of tree breeding and forest management.
Instead, policymakers miss the forest for the trees, as the IEO report shows.
The world in which we live is a small garden of well-explored territory surrounded by a dim and dark forest of disasters.
Beyond increasing the vulnerability of Brazil’s natural resources to commercial exploitation, the inevitable cuts to the environmental budget under Bolsonaro’s leadership will undermine the country’s ability to respond to disasters like forest fires.
We confront not a lone tree of iniquity, but rather a vast forest of murky words, dangerous and lunatic in their debasement.
But converting forest to farmland (which is brighter than forest) and adding smog particles to the atmosphere (which reflect sunlight) have increased the reflection of solar radiation, thus tending to offset some of the global warming that would otherwise have occurred.
Moreover, education provides the skills people need to thrive in the new sustainable economy, working in areas such as renewable energy, smart agriculture, forest rehabilitation, the design of resource-efficient cities, and sound management of healthy ecosystems.
The site is a pine forest near an old highway, distinguished by the small, regular depressions in the earth that are characteristic of such graves.
The European Environment Agency’s Scientific Committee has called it a “mistaken assumption” based on “a serious accounting error,” because if a forest is cut down to burn wood, it will take a long time for new growth to absorb the CO2 emissions.
An academic paper published last year makes the point clear in its title: “Large-scale bioenergy from additional harvest of forest biomass is neither sustainable nor greenhouse gas neutral.”
Missing the Forest for the XiLONDON – In recent weeks, Western media commentators have focused extensively on the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) decision to abolish presidential term limits, which will allow Xi Jinping to remain in power indefinitely.
Heat waves, droughts, floods, forest fires, retreating glaciers, polluted rivers, and extreme storms buffet the planet at a dramatically rising rate, owing to human activities.
Bolivia’s track record is remarkable: the world’s first debt-for-nature swap; the world’s largest protected dry tropical forest; experimental Indian park management; a rapidly growing protected-areas system; a National Environmental Fund; a world leader in international efforts to protect the endangered vicuna; progressive forestry legislation; a national biodiversity conservation agency; and a total ban on trade in domestic species.
Yet we continue to destroy them, to the point that only half the world’s original forest cover remains.
If we continue to lose forest cover, the Paris climate agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to less than two degrees Celsius (above pre-industrial levels) by 2050 will be impossible to achieve.
In fact, to meet that target, we will need to restore a significant amount of forest cover that is already gone.
The first is to allow agricultural lands to fall into disuse, and then wait for them to revert naturally to forest.
How can demand for forest products be increased?
In a media culture that can deliver instant stardom and fickle trends, our attention shifts too rapidly to see the forest for the trees.
The use of a public awareness campaign to intensify pressure on governments to pursue necessary but difficult measures has worked before – for example, in advancing forest and fishery sustainability.
The forest of Russian flags provided a powerful symbol, a promise that another Russia was possible – and may yet still be.
Forest products were heavily subsidized by none other than General Augusto Pinochet.
Its rain forest, threatened by timber companies that have made deals with some of the militias, plays an important part in slowing global warming.
When our ancestors moved out of the African forest onto the savannah more than a million years ago, they rapidly became effective predators.
One is a forest of utility poles; another is cars riding a gondola in mechanical parking areas.
Research at McKinsey into the effectiveness and cost of more than 200 mechanisms for reducing carbon emissions – from greater car efficiency to nuclear power, improved insulation in buildings, and better forest management – suggests that only concerted global action can ensure levels that the scientific community says is necessary to avoid the disastrous consequences of climate change.
And when natural forest habitat is cleared, the hardened soils left behind allow pooled water to breed mosquitoes that have increased the number of worldwide deaths from malaria.
The bear has no idea that its days are numbered unless it remains in the forest and hunts in the traditional way for its meals.
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