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How to stop deforestation? Make 'good stuff' cheaper
2015-10-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Brazil has reduced deforestation in the Amazon by 82 percent, the country's president, Dilma Rousseff, said at the United Nations on Sunday, as she announced Brazil's contribution to an anticipated new global deal to curb climate change. In the next 15 years, the Latin American nation aims to eliminate illegal deforestation, restore and reforest 12 million hectares, recover 15 million hectares of degraded pastures, and establish 5 million hectares of land on which crops, livestock and forests...
Peru says to crack down on palm oil-related Amazon deforestation
2015-09-28 03:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Peru will confront the deforestation of its Amazon region by issuing a decree next month putting palm oil plantations under federal rather than local authority, Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal said on Sunday. With big areas of Peru already stripped of natural vegetation, largely due to farming, Pulgar-Vidal said it was important to strengthen regulations on palm oil. He expects the decree within two weeks. "It's ready to go," he said. Demand for palm oil, a cash crop widely used in food...
Is Cargill backsliding on its promise to end deforestation?
2015-09-24 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: A year ago, Cargill made headlines for committing to help end deforestation. It was one of many businesses that endorsed the New York Declaration on Forests. But it was the company that captured the spotlight at the U.N. deliberations on that declaration, and I singled Cargill out for special recognition because it seemed to be paying more than lip service to the goal. Cargill wasnt just saying that it supported the idea of ending deforestation in principle, I wrote; it was making the commitment...
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Global Deforestation Slows But Forests Still Shrinking
2015-09-16 07:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Over the past 25 years the rate of global deforestation has slowed by more than 50 percent, even though the world`s forests continue to shrink as populations increase and forested land is developed, the UN`s Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, reports. Some 129 million hectares of forest -- an area almost equivalent in size to South Africa -- have been lost since 1990, according to FAO`s most comprehensive forest review to date, "The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015." "Forests play...
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Action needed global targets stem deforestation, head Greenpeace
2015-09-07 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Governments and corporations must back up their words with action to achieve ambitious global targets to combat deforestation said Greenpeace International Executive Director, Kumi Naidoo, at today`s opening of the World Forestry Congress. One year on from the New York Declaration on forests that was endorsed by governments, businesses, indigenous peoples and non-governmental groups little progress has been made in fulfilling pledges to restore 150 million hectares of forest and completely eliminate...
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