Forests
A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing and ecological function. The Food and Agriculture Organization defines a forest as land spanning more than 0.5 hectares with trees higher than 5 meters and a canopy cover of more than 10 percent, or trees able to reach these thresholds in situ. It does not include land that is predominantly under agricultural or urban land use. Using this definition FRA 2020 found that forests covered 4.06 billion hectares …
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UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 10 December 2024 English
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Sustainable Management of Agricultural Land and Forests to Prevent Large-scale Land and/or Forest fires …
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 19 November 2024 English
Date: 19 November 2024 Time: 12:00- 13:00 AZT Location: Faith Pavilion
UNEP EVENT Forests and nature action across Rio conventions 19 November 2024 Baku, Azerbaijan Date: 19 … the UNFCCC COP29. Organizer: UNEP Description: Forests are essential to tackling climate change, biodiversity … Rio Conventions—UNFCCC, CBD, and UNCCD—to place forests at the center of global nature-based solutions … discussing the cultural and spiritual importance of forests. By integrating environmental, social, and ethical … ethical dimensions, this session aims to highlight forests as crucial to not only global climate goals but …
WRI: World Resources Institute · 15 November 2024 English
The climate crisis impacts every aspect of our society, economy, and planet. Its effects transcend borders, sectors, and populations and require ambitious solutions that are built on the foundations of …
North America Topics Cities Climate Energy Food Forests Freshwater Ocean Centers Economics Equity Finance …
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 14 November 2024 English
Shelton Nyakundi, an 18-year-old student at the Menengai boarding school in Nakuru, Kenya, believes one simple thing could make the difference between the academic success and failure of many pupils: …
identified are: energy; industry; agriculture and food; forests and land use; transport; and buildings and cities … forestry and private investments can save Indonesia’s forests Clean energy powers a silent revolution on Togo’s …
World Bank Group · 14 November 2024 English
Activities OP/BP 4.03 Natural Habitats (OP) (BP 4.04) Forests (OP) (BP 4.36) Pest Management (OP 4.09) Physical …
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 14 November 2024 English
Date: 14 November 2024 Time: 11:30 - 13:00 AZT Location: UN Azerbaijan - Pavilion
Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use, scaling up finance for forests is essential. Currently …
EPRS: European Parliamentary Research Service · 14 November 2024 English
Contingent liabilities for the EU budget have grown considerably in their magnitude and their complexity and will continue to increase under the MFF 2021-2027. This paper tracks their evolution, explains …
Digital; • Sustainable Agriculture, Biodiversity, Forests and Water; • Sustainable Cities; • Sustainable …
World Bank Group · 14 November 2024 English
benefit from conserved, standing and well managed forests. This has been designed as part of a larger process …
Institut Veblen · 14 November 2024 English
These measures will ensure the the adoption of a regulation on the mitiga- reciprocity of standards in the European mar- tion of the imported environmental and ket, encouraging a shift …
in EU action to protect and restore the world’s forests”, Briefing paper, 2021. 21 https://ec.europa.e … n-eu-action-to-protect-and-restore-the-worlds-forests-2387/ https://www.fern.org/publications-insigh … n-eu-action-to-protect-and-restore-the-worlds-forests-2387/ CASE STUDIES Several case studies were conducted …
World Bank Group · 13 November 2024 English
Maritime Fisheries, Rural Development, Water and Forests (MAPMDREF) 07-Nov-2024 19-Dec-2024 Estimated Decision …
