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#Levi s M&s Other Brands Pledge Zero-Deforestation Fashion LLEVI Strauss & Co.,Marks & spencer, Portico Brands and ASOS have joined Canopy Fashion Loved by Forests initiative,
or contribute to deforestation. Most rayon, viscose, modal, lyocell and other trademarked cellulosic fabrics start their journey as trees.
and environmental damage like deforestation, said a Google statement announcing the acquisition. Solar s influence Titan Aerospace caught Google s attention thanks to its innovative dragonfly-shaped drones that are powered by its wing-mounted solar panels
or deforestation he says. And with an open software interface anyone will be able to develop apps that use the imagery.
Established in the 1960s India's space programme has focused so far on aiding the country's development building satellites to spot potential sources of groundwater and monitor deforestation.
and can contribute to deforestation. Solar cooking could alleviate that and since people often cook
32 national and 20 local or regional governments 40 companies 16 indigenous peoples groups and 49 nonprofits have pledged all cooperation to halve current rates of deforestation by 2020.
(although the government has stated it intends to cut deforestation roughly 25 percent by 2020). As part of the declaration Norway the U k. and Germany among others pledged $1 billion to developing countries such as Liberia and Peru for preserving forests.
But the enormous demand also drives rampant deforestation in Malaysia and Indonesia as growers clear land for palm oil plantations.
#The Brazilian deforestation puzzle Brazil rate of deforestation went down dramatically over the last ten years.
the decade-long decrease in deforestation. What was behind that? One possible reason, advanced by ecologist Philip Fearnside in an interview on Yale 360,
which was in the opposite direction of increasing deforestation. Both economic circumstances and the drivers of deforestation vary from place to place,
but it not obvious why the Brazil living in the same world economy as Peru,
Bolivia, and other countries with tropical forest should have responded to global economic changes with a big dip in deforestation
while the deforestation in the other countries grew sharply. Also, deforestation decreases in different Brazilian states weren lockstep,
which also suggests the possibility that uniform national forces applying to the whole country may not be the complete explanation.
when deforestation was falling. The other plausible cause involves Brazil forest policy. Brazil adopted a number of anti-deforestation measures,
including increased enforcement. In a particularly interesting move the government used its controls of state banks to deter agriculture
These policies are being studied carefully in other countries with deforestation problems. It frustrating that we don have better empirical analysis of the role of policy
Satellite evidence suggests that deforestation has doubled in the past year. The government has confirmed this shift. The reasons for this change are also unclear.
which may have made profits from deforestation more appealing compared to the alternatives. There an oddity about where deforestation is increasing.
In 2013, deforestation in Pará was about as great as in Rondônia and Mato grosso combined.
see this chart. But in 2014, each of those state had more deforestation than Pará (see here.
There seem to be two possible explanations. One is that the drivers of deforestation in those states are much different,
so countrywide economic or legal changes have very different effects in each state. Mato grosso, for example, is a far bigger soybean producer than the other two states.
along with national policy, in the earlier decrease in deforestation, so maybe changes at those levels are part of the current increase.
The most obvious explanation for the overall trends is the change in national policy first to sharply restrict deforestation,
we can only hope that Brazil gets back on track in its efforts to control deforestation
#Google unveils deforestation monitor to combat climate change The philanthropic arm of Google, Google. org, introduced on Thursday a deforestation monitor that could be a useful tool to combat climate change.
Using a new platform, its"high-performance satellite imagery-processing engine, "the company can crunch the massive amounts of data stored on Google's servers to instantly produce,
The platform, unveiled at the International Climate change Conference in Copenhagen, could be used as a tool for nations to comply with the United nations-proposed REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest degradation in Developing Countries) program
"Emissions from tropical deforestation are comparable to the emissions of all of the European union, and are greater than those of all cars, trucks, planes, ships, and trains worldwide."
and prevent continued deforestation a
#Cuban Babies Are Now HIV-Free Cuba has become the first country in the world in
#Farming Now Worse for Climate Than Clearing Forests Efforts such as these to slow deforestation have delivered some of humanity few gains in its otherwise lackadaisical battle so far against global warming.
Efforts such as these to slow deforestation have delivered some of humanity few gains in its otherwise lackadaisical battle so far against global warming.
particularly in Brazil, helped reduce deforestation annual toll on the climate by nearly a quarter between the 1990s and 2010.
A new study describes how this trend has seen agriculture overtake deforestation as the leading source of land-based greenhouse gas pollution during the past decade.
the researchers note that delegates to the talks ignore similar opportunities to reform farming. he decline in deforestation over the past decade
The deforestation slowdown has, n large part, he said, been driven by new forestry rules in Brazil, by the U n. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest degradation (REDD) program,
which funds forest conservation, and similar policies elsewhere. The new study, led by the U n. Food and agriculture organization
suggesting agriculture indirect climate impacts surpass the impacts of deforestation for timber and other commodities. The researchers aim to tally those indirect impacts later this year.
Although annual climate pollution from deforestation is declining, experts warn that recent gains could quickly be reversed.
Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest spiked recently following nearly a decade of declines, for example, as farmers and loggers rushed to exploit loopholes in forest protection laws.
Some parts of Central africa are seeing deforestation in areas where it was not previously a problem.
and reporting complex climate indicators for deforestation and agricultural activity than is the case for the energy sector.
The paper noted a gulf between global efforts to reduce the climate impacts of deforestation, and the dearth of a global response to the climate impacts of food production.
I think all the major actors have come to the conclusion that reducing emissions from deforestation is a key piece of solving the climate change puzzle.
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