Better vehicle emissions standards, reforestation and a developed carbon trading market would all help.
Environmental restoration would begin with reforestation of the almost 90% of Haiti's native forest that has been destroyed.
European Union nations accept industrial projects like those Ertel is arranging in India but reject reforestation credits, for instance.
Careful planning and reforestation efforts could reduce the effects of pipelines, wind turbines and other human activity, scientists said.
The 39-square-kilometre park is the first highly successful reforestation project in Brazil, started back in the second half of the 19th Century.
Finally, regarding my particular interest in biodiversity, I was happy to see that RB has linked its carbon commitment to reforestation.
From here, goats and trekkers climb onto Jebel Toubkal's hunched shoulders, which are freckled with pine trees planted in a reforestation initiative.
They're used for reforestation projects in central Brazil where loggers, ranchers and farmers have cleared huge swaths of Amazon rainforest and semi-arid savannah.
Though the new law should lead to some reforestation, this is merely a one-off requirement for signing up to the Rural Environmental Register.
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To that end, Alcoa is working with three non-profits, American Forests, Greening Australia and the Nature Conservancy, which has a large reforestation project in Brazil.
Through afforestation, reforestation and cutting down agricultural emissions, by one estimate, carbon dioxide equivalent to 40 parts per million could be extracted from the atmosphere by 2050.
She said the project covers 18 miles of tunnels and 24 miles of bridges through the mountains, as well as provisions to restore the environment, such as reforestation.
Training rural women about the Maya nut has made them champions of rain forest conservation and reforestation, as well as entrepreneurs who turn Maya nut products into income.
For example, expanded credits for forestry-based offsets, including reforestation, afforestation and avoided deforestation, would give the rural poor a critical source of income to manage and sustain their landscapes.
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Reforestation efforst in IndonesiaCap-and-trade and similar climate change legislation could not get through the U.S. Congress for the simple reason that their potential benefits were outweighed by their significant economic costs.
Viewed that way, the agreement to fund reforestation projects is an important development because it addresses the source of 20% of global warming gases while connecting developing and industrial economies, he said.
Along with street and building upgrades in the community, the city invested in rain gardens, reforestation, and restoration of Lick Run, a stream in South Fairmount that was buried as the area developed.
Regulations that help replenish and protect fish stocks, restoration and conservation projects to protect and nurture natural barriers like reefs and wetlands, and reforestation efforts are all things that can have a huge impact on ocean health with no rocket science necessary.
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