Combating deforestation and forest degradation

Conversely, deforestation can contribute to land degradation and desertification.

Dealing with deforestation and forest degradation cannot wait until 2020.

(g) Perverse subsidies and their impact on deforestation and forest degradation

The challenges of the alarming rate of deforestation and forest degradation remain serious.

Despite some positive trends, there remains a need for continued action to combat deforestation and forest degradation in many countries. Underlying causes of deforestation are complex and varied.

Invites the Global Environment Facility to strengthen the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation

4. Invites the Global Environment Facility to strengthen the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation

6. Invites the Global Environment Facility to strengthen the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation

Moreover, its current contribution is also negligible, practically all of it coming from deforestation and degradation of forests and farmland.

Measures taken to combat deforestation and forest degradation include the development and implementation of national forest programmes (and similar frameworks), management guidelines, financial encouragement, removal of perverse incentives for deforestation and public information campaigns.

Other significant environmental problems include land degradation caused by deforestation and inappropriate agricultural practices, water loss, and mangrove clearance for aquaculture.

Despite substantial progress in the formulation and implementation of national forest policies, deforestation and forest degradation continue at an alarming rate.

Address underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation, including the need for the readjustment of financial flows and the reduction of consumption.

Some point out, however, that deforestation and forest degradation continue to occur and that an effective legally binding agreement will improve international governance of forests.

Recognizing the need for the provision of adequate resources for Global Environment Facility focal areas, including a focus on land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation,

Emphasizing the need for the provision of adequate resources for the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation, of the Global Environment Facility,

Emphasizing the need for the provision of adequate resources for the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation, of the Global Environment Facility,

Emphasizing the need for the provision of adequate resources for the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation, of the Global Environment Facility,

According to him, it is imperative to address the country's infrastructure especially roads and the energy sector as well as to combat deforestation and environmental degradation.

One such initiative is the REDD framework (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), an effort to create financial value for the carbon stored in rainforests.

Indeed, dependence on wood biomass leads to massive felling of plant cover to satisfy domestic energy needs, so accelerating the process of deforestation and soil degradation.

On the other hand, inappropriate allocation of roles and responsibilities in forest management can result in negative impacts on people's livelihoods and contribute to deforestation and forest degradation.

The REDD partnership (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), an effort to create financial value for the carbon stored in forests, is the prime example here.

5. Invites the Council of the Global Environment Facility at its May 2003 meeting to finalize and adopt the operational programme for land degradation, particularly desertification and deforestation

As a follow up to these regional and global events, 14 national workshops, to address the underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation, were organized in all continents.

We have the means already in our hands, through a structure, through a mechanism, called REDD Plus a scheme for the reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.

In such a context, the designation of land degradation mainly desertification and deforestation as an area of GEF action has done much to raise hopes in affected developing countries.

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) undertook a research study on the interaction between global impoverishment and the environment in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) showing how poverty, environmental degradation (deforestation, desertification and soil degradation) and population growth are interlinked in the LDCs.

however remaining deeply concerned, despite progress made, over deforestation and forest degradation in many regions, as well as the trade in illegally harvested wood and non wood forest products, including wildlife,

Invites the Global Environment Facility to strengthen the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation, and calls upon Global Environment Facility donors to increase substantially the level of resources to be allocated to the land degradation focal area during the fourth replenishment of the Facility

For example, during 1997 and 1998, together with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), several Governments and local communities organized seven regional workshops on the problematique of underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation.

The international community should endeavour to highlight the issue of deserts and land degradation by addressing the root causes of desertification and its adverse impact on development, poverty, deforestation, health, environmental sustainability, agriculture and migration.

Furthermore, the strains of increased global populations, combined with income growth, are leading to rapid deforestation, depletion of fisheries, land degradation, and the loss of habitat and extinction of a vast number of animal and plant species.

In addition, there should be emphasis on another key area of concern for the sector, besides deforestation and forest degradation, namely, the lack of recognition of indigenous peoples and communities that live in and depend on forests.

Deforestation and desertification are rampant.

Non governmental organizations are also deeply concerned about the lack of action taken by key actors, including Governments, intergovernmental organizations, and the private sector, among others, to curb the deforestation and forest degradation currently occurring at an alarming rate.

While forest biodiversity continues to decline as a result of deforestation, forest degradation and associated fragmentation of forest habitats, strong efforts are now being made to reverse this trend by restoring the forest functions in degraded forest landscapes.

Welcoming the outcomes of the Second Assembly of the Global Environment Facility, held in Beijing from 16 to 18 October 2002, particularly the decision on making land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation, a new focal area of the Facility,

It will also reduce deforestation.

Deforestation must be reversed, not accelerated.

For decentralization of the forest sector to fulfill its objectives to control deforestation and environmental degradation, it is necessary to establish a better balance of power between the State and other stakeholders, empowering local organizations and increasing capacity for local management regimes in communities and municipalities.18

Seven Parties proposed projects to slow deforestation and assist regeneration.

Countering deforestation is not without its challenges.

Deforestation for timber and energy precipitate erosion and reduce soil fertility.