Deforestation
Deforestation, clearance, clearcutting or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees from land which is then converted to a non-forest use. Deforestation can involve conversion of forest land to farms, ranches, or urban use. The most concentrated deforestation occurs in tropical rainforests. About 31% of Earth's land surface is covered by forests. Between 15 - 18 million hectares of forest, an area the size of Belgium are destroyed every year, on average 2,400 trees are cut down each minute.The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations defines deforestation as the conversion of forest to other …
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IUCN: International Union for Conservation of Nature · 6 September 2024 English
financing to conserve primary forest and reduce deforestation and degradation. In 2023, the regional coordination …
RSIS: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies · 6 September 2024 English
070 – 6 September 2024 The authors’ views are their own and do not represent the official position of the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies of the S. [...] …
te-literacy https://www.emission-index.com/deforestation/mangrove-forest-carbon https://www.nature.c …
World Bank Group · 5 September 2024 English
development. Key drivers to this degradation include deforestation, unsustainable farming, and competing land-uses … improper management of soil, urbanization, deforestation, and removal of natural vegetation cover have …
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 5 September 2024 English
For billions of people across the developing world, particularly children and women, mealtime starts by firing up a kerosene stove, lighting a charcoal grill or setting some logs ablaze. The …
kerosene and natural gas – can help counter deforestation and an alarming rise in biodiversity loss. …
World Bank Group · 5 September 2024 English
Management Unit REDD Reducing Emissions from Deforestation & Forest Degradation REDD IC REDD Implementation …
World Bank Group · 5 September 2024 English
Low- and middle-income geographies affected by fragility, conflict, and violence(FCV) are confronted with major development challenges, which threaten their effortsto end extreme poverty M]Q produce a more equitable future. At …
Environmental degradation trajectories, such as deforestation, loss of soil fertility and erosion, and pollution …
World Bank Group · 5 September 2024 English
This study enhances the policy debate by examining the broad socioeconomic impacts of hosting displaced Rohingya population on their surrounding communities in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. While prior research has touched …
measurements of annual night light density, deforestation, and land use. • Cox’s Bazar Panel Survey: … increase in night light density and greater deforestation following the arrival of the Rohingya in 2017 … substantially larger than the decrease in deforestation. These effects align with the results from …
World Bank Group · 4 September 2024 English
Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon, the National Protected … lower education and literacy rates. Although deforestation has diminished by 22.7% in the Amazon region … degradation are advancing rapidly, driven mainly by deforestation for cattle ranching, agriculture, illegal mining … droughts and scientists have warned that a) deforestation and climate change are driving the biome toward … presents the highest deforestation rate in Brazil. In 2022, Pará registered the deforestation of 4,414 km2 and …
World Bank Group · 4 September 2024 English
verified Emissions Reductions (ER) from reduced deforestation, forest degradation and enhancement of forest …
World Bank Group · 4 September 2024 English
and mitigable. These impacts included; (i) deforestation and forest degradation; (ii) biodiversity loss; …
