• 07/27/2022 - Climate change threatens the lives and livelihoods of over 61 million citizens in Tanzania living below the poverty line of $1.25 a day. (pik-potsdam.de)
  • Panama assumed the Presidency Pro Tempore of the Eastern Tropical Pacific Marine Corridor in April 2022. (iucn.org)
  • Panamá asumió la Presidencia Pro Tempore del Corredor Marino del Pacífico Este Tropical en abril de 2022. (iucn.org)
  • Those who live in temperate climates tend to think that the tropics have little or no seasonality. (desertmuseum.org)
  • People participating in more strenuous activities (e.g., hiking or biking) in hot environments are at greater risk, especially those coming from cool or temperate climates who are not in good physical condition and who are unacclimatized to heat. (cdc.gov)
  • He is also co-chair of Working Group 2 of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (democracynow.org)
  • 2007). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts in most scenarios that this threshold will be surpassed around the middle of this century (Watson and Albritton 2001). (lu.se)
  • If Brazilian Amazon states are to continue their remarkable progress in slowing deforestation and mitigating climate change, they urgently need a signal that their efforts are recognized and that some portion of their costs will be recovered. (ecosystemmarketplace.com)
  • Understanding how climate shifts impact ecosystem functioning and socioeconomic well-being is vital for biodiversity conservation and adaptation planning. (relx.com)
  • Integrating climate policy, forest and biodiversity conservation, post-2015 SDGs, water management, and agriculture and energy development will be critical to success. (forest-trends.org)
  • Old growth forests play a key role in biodiversity conservation and planetary stability in the face of rapid climate change", says Pep Canadell, Director for the Global Carbon Project CSIRO in Australia. (lu.se)
  • Understanding the drivers of sloth activity and their ability to withstand environmental fluctuations is of growing importance for the development of effective conservation measures, particularly when we consider the vulnerability of tropical ecosystems to climate change and the escalating impacts of anthropogenic activities in South and Central America," the team wrote in the paper . (popsci.com)
  • As these tropical ecosystems become more vulnerable due to human-made climate change, understanding wildlife patterns are crucial for conservation methods. (popsci.com)
  • As Conservation International's (CI) Johnson Cerda framed it: "The knowledge of Indigenous peoples continues to provide key information to protect the resources of the Mother Earth, and to create opportunities for climate change adaptation and mitigation actions across diverse ecosystems. (conservation.org)
  • Florida A&M) - TALLAHASSEE, FL - Decision tools allow for the examination and prediction of impacts of altered climate on natural and managed ecosystems. (floridaclimateinstitute.org)
  • Decades of studies have resulted in various tools, however, a few decision-making tools have been developed for planning and management of ecosystems due to future climate scenarios. (floridaclimateinstitute.org)
  • Researchers at FAMU have developed a decision support tool that could reduce the disconnect between the supply and demand for climate information in making decisions from climate change impacts, assessment, of natural and man-made ecosystems. (floridaclimateinstitute.org)
  • Just months before Lima hosts over 190 countries to advance international climate negotiations at COP 20, Katoomba XX - Peru will identify opportunities for climate policy and finance to align with other public and private investments and commitments to ensure that forests and other ecosystems continue to provide critical support for stable climate and resilient societies. (forest-trends.org)
  • Recognizing the critical role of ecosystems in human survival, leaders and representatives from the world's three largest tropical biodiversity ecosystems - the Amazon, the Congo and the Mekong-Delta River basins - are meeting this week in Brazzaville to discuss the complex relationship between forest ecosystems and human well-being. (who.int)
  • 2009), a phenomenon that can cause the death of corals and thereby the collapse of entire ecosystems and has been described as "one of the most striking impacts of climate change that has been observed to date" (Cinner et al. (lu.se)
  • Our findings also improve understanding of urgent issues associated with changing environmental conditions (e.g., climate change, loss of natural habitats), a theoretical understanding that can be applied and tested in many specific ecosystems. (lu.se)
  • According to Global Forest Watch , Costa Rica lost about 2.4 percent of its forest cover between 2000 and 2020, but the country has gained international recognition for its efforts to mitigate climate change and promote animal welfare . (popsci.com)
  • On January 6, 2021, as many of us in the United States were glued to TV watching the horrors of the insurrection against the U.S Capitol, the AFP News in France posted , on its Facebook page, an infographic built with data provided by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which 'confirmed the extinction in 2020 of 36 plant and animal species, not seen for decades. (commondreams.org)
  • Climate change will affect tropical rainforests - here are 3 ways how. (conservation.org)
  • In 2021, 3.5 million of the 11.1 million hectares cleared or burned were tropical primary rainforests. (wri.org)
  • The dry season of 2015 was a devastating one for Indonesia, with around 100,000 fires engulfing thousands of hectares of tropical rainforests and carbon-rich peatlands on the islands of Sumatra, Borneo and New Guinea. (mongabay.com)
  • While this study adds more understanding to sloth ecology, it also highlights the importance of preserving and protecting tropical rainforests and their unique inhabitants. (popsci.com)
  • The National Wildlife Federation's International Wildlife Conservation team created a survey to assess concerns about the potential impact of cattle ranching on tropical rainforests and wildlife. (nwf.org)
  • SÃO PAULO - The protection and conservation of biomes, especially tropical rainforests, is critical to achieve climate goals, especially in countries with abundant forest cover. (jordantimes.com)
  • We use climate models with as fine a spatial scale as we can to actually make these predictions to see where the risk of fire increases," says study author Frank van Veen from the University of Exeter, U.K., who also leads Kalimantan Lestari , an interdisciplinary project focused on building resilience against drought and peatland fires in the province of Central Kalimantan. (mongabay.com)
  • Mitigation procedures that preserve ecosystem resistance and resilience to climate change are recommended as cost-effective and ecologically sound adaptation strategies. (cifor.org)
  • However, their capacity to sustain biodiversity and associated ecosystem services under climate change is uncertain. (relx.com)
  • Not only will climate change directly impact forests and the other natural systems that maintain critical water-related ecosystem services, climate impacts will be experienced largely through the medium of water - melting glaciers, changing rainfall patterns, increased water stress and drought from higher temperatures, more severe storms - resulting in increased water and food insecurity, and constraints on economic opportunity. (forest-trends.org)
  • Ecosystem-based or watershed-wide approaches provide the best lens through which communities can assess and manage with changing climate conditions. (cifor.org)
  • These provide clean air, fresh water, medicines, food and nutrition security and support critical ecosystem functions and services such pest and disease regulation, pollination, climate regulation, and mitigating the impacts of extreme events. (who.int)
  • LUCSUS research on forest management, ecosystem services, Indigenous' knowledge, genetic resources, nature conservation and human-nature relationships aims to contribute towards sustainable conservation and tackle biodiversity loss. (lu.se)
  • A good Anthropocene demands that humans use their growing social, economic, and technological powers to make life better for people, stabilize the climate, and protect the natural world. (wikipedia.org)
  • Methodologies for constructing deforestation baselines for carbon-offset interventions thus need urgent revisions in order to correctly attribute reduced deforestation to the conservation interventions, thus maintaining both incentives for forest conservation and the integrity of global carbon accounting. (cifor.org)
  • At the time, soaring demand for forest carbon credits from companies seeking to demonstrate climate action promised a new source of finance for tropical forest protection. (wri.org)
  • The Tropical Forest Credit Integrity Guide can help companies develop and populate a tropical forest carbon credit portfolio that contributes to global climate, biodiversity and development goals. (wri.org)
  • Companies can play an important role in signaling demand for tropical forest carbon credits in ways that will accelerate the needed transitions toward climate-friendly forest management, complementing decarbonization efforts within their own operations and value chains. (wri.org)
  • Those forests store massive amounts of carbon that cannot be recovered in the relevant timeframe to achieve global climate goals. (wri.org)
  • A group of Virginia-based environmental and conservation groups sued the state Monday over Virginia's withdrawal from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a carbon-capping agreement encompassing several other East Coast states. (keloland.com)
  • In doing so, the people of Suriname are preserving the tropical forests vital for storing carbon and combating climate change. (conservation.org)
  • New research directly compares, for the first time, how much carbon dioxide could be removed from the atmosphere by both tropical reforestation and deforestation. (nature.org)
  • Tropical wetlands, especially peatlands and mangroves, are important in global carbon cycling. (cifor.org)
  • Research that addresses critical information gaps and communicates the results on land use and carbon dynamics in tropical wetlands is needed to inform sound policy decisions. (cifor.org)
  • Afocus on policies to conserve tropical forests for their carbon storage value may imperil some of the world's most biologically rich tropical forests. (enn.com)
  • Many countries have climate-protection policies designed to conserve tropical forests to keep their carbon locked up in trees. (enn.com)
  • Lead author Dr Martin Sullivan , from the School of Geography at the University of Leeds, said: "International programmes often encourage the conservation of forests with high carbon stocks, because their focus is to try to slow climate change. (enn.com)
  • The ocean is the Earth's largest carbon sink and our most powerful ally in the fight against climate change. (iucn.org)
  • However, a new study tempers such optimism and suggests that marine reserves, as currently implemented, will not mitigate the impacts of climate change and other large scale disturbances. (scitizen.com)
  • Since being elected as a tribal leader 15 years ago, Fawn Sharp, now the vice president of the Quinault Indian Nation in what is now Washington state, has seen the impacts of climate change, including rising sea levels , and shrinking glaciers and ocean acidification which are decimating salmon numbers - a crisis for tribes across the continent . (ecowatch.com)
  • With declining trends for some native species on neighbouring islands, the increasing and stable trends on Aguiguan is good news for forest bird populations in the region, as Aguiguan populations can help support conservation efforts on other islands in the archipelago. (cambridge.org)
  • Tropical forests contain over 60% of mammal species and more than 70% of bird species , even though they only cover about 18% of Earth's total land area, making them a crucial habitat for the world's terrestrial biodiversity. (wri.org)
  • The blooming of most tropical deciduous tree species that flower in the dry season is essentially uncoupled from available soil moisture in southern TDF (but see next paragraph). (desertmuseum.org)
  • Tropical insects are wildly diverse, but most species are unstudied or unknown, even as they're heavily impacted by deforestation, climate change and pesticides. (mongabay.com)
  • The Appendix contains the physical data required to assess the properties of the main building materials and other useful lists such as an extensive bibliography, solar ecliptic charts for tropical and subtropical regions, conversion factors, an English / German dictionary of technical terms and a list of possible plant species. (nzdl.org)
  • Half of the world's tropical plant species may struggle to germinate by 2070 because of global warming, a new UNSW study predicts. (edu.au)
  • Consequently, some 60% of temperate plant species were represented in botanic gardens but only 25% of tropical species, despite the fact that the majority of plant species are tropical. (cam.ac.uk)
  • The researchers argue that botanic gardens are of "critical importance to plant conservation", and internationally coordinated efforts are needed to house even more species at risk of extinction - particularly those from tropical climates. (cam.ac.uk)
  • You explore a diversity of case studies in Scotland and internationally to examine the diversity of approaches ranging from the conservation of threatened species to the challenges of working inside and outside of protected areas. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • You graduate with a deep understanding of the underpinning principles of conservation, an awareness of the range of arguments for and against different strategies, links to a range of practitioners and policy advisors, and quantitative skills useful for managing wildlife and threatened species. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • Biodiversity is steadily lost due to increasing deforestation, land conversion, pollution, climate change and invasive species. (lu.se)
  • The Nordic collections are used today primarily to clarify which species have been present at a certain place at a certain time, for example, to be able to study how changes in the environment and climate have affected the flora over the past 200 years and to document newly immigrated potentially invasive species. (lu.se)
  • While local governments can't control global climate change, they work to stem forest lost and invest in reforestation of tropical forests and revitalization of peatlands to mitigate fire risks in the future, researchers say. (mongabay.com)
  • However, many reef scientists and conservationist remain skeptical about the potential of marine reserves to mitigate the effects of climate change, primarily because they cannot directly regulate or eliminate the primary culprits of anthropogenic coral loss. (scitizen.com)
  • For now, let us celebrate the exemplary and expansive model that President Biden has built with intention and rigor--a whole-government approach that eschews silos in favor of co-operation among federal agencies and other institutions to mitigate the climate crisis. (commondreams.org)
  • A practical example of that is the Amazonas law project for environmental services, which process of construction was carried under the Amazonas State Forum on Climate Change and its Forests Working Group (Idesam is the coordinator of that group), a space where civil society, as well as other sectors, have an active voice and direct interaction with the government. (ecosystemmarketplace.com)
  • The study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, calculated the combined effect of climate change and deforestation on fire risk in Borneo, and found that while high levels of CO 2 in the atmosphere increase fire risk, deforestation, which causes the dry conditions that fuel the fires, significantly contributes to it. (mongabay.com)
  • Climate change, clean air, and environmental health. (edf.org)
  • The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Association of Energy Conservation Professionals, Virginia Interfaith Power & Light, Appalachian Voices and Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions. (keloland.com)
  • I've personally provided testimony at nearly 40 state and federal hearings on climate, water, and broad environmental policy issues. (scienceblogs.com)
  • If we do not conserve our plant diversity, humanity will struggle to solve the global challenges of food and fuel security, environmental degradation, and climate change. (cam.ac.uk)
  • The names of nominees of the top leadership positions at Interior, Energy, EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), and the CEQ (Council on Environmental Quality) appear on the 'Climate' page. (commondreams.org)
  • They suggested that very little has been done to address the climate crisis because 'majority of the Earth's citizens have not seen any significant climate changes thus far' (see The Earth is Faster Now: Indigenous Observations of Arctic Environmental Change , edited by Igor Krupnik and Dyanna Jolly, Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, 2002, pg. (commondreams.org)
  • Minister Mouynes and her team at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs work closely with partners in the public and private sectors - including with Panama's Ministry of Environment, an IUCN Member organisation - to advocate for climate and environmental sustainability policies within Panama, the Latin America region and around the world. (iucn.org)
  • Brazzaville - The emergence and spread of zoonotic diseases is a pressing concern for public health and environmental conservation in an increasingly interconnected world. (who.int)
  • By comparison, most types of land use conversion in the tropics can be accurately detected by satellites, so data about the rate and patterns of tropical deforestation and land conversion have become an effective tool to evaluate environmental progress in those countries. (lu.se)
  • Public sector money will not be sufficient to close this gap, but the private sector can play a critical role with companies providing finance to incentivize tropical forest protection as part of their climate mitigation strategies. (wri.org)
  • While tropical forests must be included in government's climate mitigation strategies, a zero-deforestation economy will not be possible without private sector action. (medium.com)
  • Greenpeace's new report , Outsourcing Hot Air , could help to slow-or reverse-the progress of tropical states and provinces around the world in reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. (ecosystemmarketplace.com)
  • Conservation and reducing degradation to tropical wetlands are both sound mitigation approaches and important adaptation strategies. (cifor.org)
  • landscapes, land forms, land forming processes and their connection to climate and anthropogenic factors the role of geomorphological processes in landscape dynamics natural resource planning, soil conservation, land degradation and and landscape changes in a local, regional and global perspective Central parts are to understand the human influence on the dynamics and permanent changes of the landscape. (lu.se)
  • SÃO PAULO - In the midst of the growing climate crisis, the world can no longer rely solely on old models of economic development. (jordantimes.com)
  • However, despite being among the least culpable and most harmed by the climate crisis , they will not be fully credentialed while they seek to influence the important discussions already dogged by problems of inequitable access . (ecowatch.com)
  • The climate crisis, war, attacks on reproductive rights, book bans-these threats aren't looming. (democracynow.org)
  • This silence is disheartening because the biodiversity crisis is just as significant, just as expansive, just as severe, and just as consequential as the climate crisis. (commondreams.org)
  • Only time will tell how effective the Biden-Harris administration will be in mitigating the climate crisis. (commondreams.org)
  • Mere two decades later, today, we can safely say that 'majority of the Earth's citizens' have experienced at least some impact of climate change, which has led to wide public awakening about the crisis, including and most notably among the youth. (commondreams.org)
  • Minister Mouynes' post-pandemic priority is to facilitate regional dialogue on key issues, including the pressing climate crisis. (iucn.org)
  • To address these concerns, the International Wildlife Conservation team is planning a follow-up blog about soy, another major commodity that is driving tropical deforestation and the loss of critical wildlife habitat. (nwf.org)
  • Commodities such as soy, palm oil, timber and beef are driving tropical deforestation, but the global demand for these commodities is increasing. (medium.com)
  • The challenges facing our ocean today cannot be resolved by any one nation, but marine conservation has not traditionally been a priority for diplomats. (iucn.org)
  • Tropical forests are also home to Indigenous communities who both rely on these forests for their livelihood and serve as their most effective as stewards . (wri.org)
  • The tribe of Maasai is one of the most culturally distinctive and vibrant indigenous societies in Africa and very vulnerable to climate change. (pik-potsdam.de)
  • Too often, the voices of the world's 370 million indigenous people are left out of global conversations on critical issues, such as climate change. (conservation.org)
  • In addition to retaining over 94% of its original rainforest cover (the highest in the world), in 2015 indigenous communities there declared an indigenous Southern Suriname Conservation Corridor (SSCC) covering 7.2 million hectares (17.8 million acres). (conservation.org)
  • While current law doesn't allow for indigenous management, CI is working closely with the government and indigenous communities to allow community-owned conservation areas like the SSCC to be incorporated into the country's official protected areas. (conservation.org)
  • Suriname's indigenous peoples have set remarkable precedents in the country: Not only have they declared the corridor and designated their land for conservation, the government has formally recognized their declaration. (conservation.org)
  • Through CI's Indigenous Leaders Conservation Fellowship program , indigenous leaders have the opportunity and funding to explore climate change solutions using traditional knowledge, science and partnership with local institutions. (conservation.org)
  • With no large-scale activities around the lake that would account for the water loss - no dams, industry or large irrigation systems for agriculture - Ibrahim felt confident climate change was responsible and used her fellowship to explore ways indigenous knowledge could help her community adapt to it. (conservation.org)
  • Indigenous groups from around the world are preparing to travel to Glasgow for COP26 to call for climate action and demand a greater say in negotiations, the Arizona Republic reports. (ecowatch.com)
  • At the turn of this century, Indigenous peoples of the Arctic, who were 'already witnessing disturbing and severe climate and ecological changes,' made a prescient assessment. (commondreams.org)
  • c New Zealand Centre for Conservation Medicine, Auckland, New Zealand. (who.int)
  • Recent analysis estimates domestic and international public finance for agriculture and forestry production, outweighs climate public finance for forest restoration and conservation by a ratio of 10 to one. (wri.org)
  • The unique forecast accounts for climate change effects, making it reliable to use for agriculture, livestock, and fisheries. (pik-potsdam.de)
  • More than 60 developing countries submitted pledges last week ahead of a United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) deadline. (cgdev.org)
  • As governments meet at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change 24th annual conference of the parties (COP24) in Katowice, Poland, this film highlights the importance of tackling deforestation to meet climate targets. (medium.com)
  • This has occurred despite the fact that the majority of productive Swedish forest is included within some form of forest product certification that prioritizes conservation of forests with high ecological values. (lu.se)
  • Through effective collaboration, the International Wildlife Conservation team aims to support sustainable production systems on the ground, promoting win-win solutions for the environment, wildlife, and people. (nwf.org)
  • CIFOR publishes over 400 publications every year on forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy, agroforestry and much more in multiple languages. (cifor.org)
  • Global net emissions of greenhouse gases could be reduced by up to 30% through conservation and restoration of tropical forests. (medium.com)
  • Handbook of Research on the Conservation and Restoration of Tropical Dry Forests, edited by Rahul Bhadouria, et al. (igi-global.com)
  • Handbook of Research on the Conservation and Restoration of Tropical Dry Forests (pp. 1-23). (igi-global.com)
  • Additionally, it would improve the linkages between climate-impacts research and planning, management, adaptation, and mitigation by providing quantitative information to stakeholders and managers. (floridaclimateinstitute.org)
  • Mangroves are key to both climate change mitigation and adaptation. (cifor.org)
  • The results of this work imply that poor coastal communities are highly vulnerable to climate change through coral bleaching, which should be taken into consideration for climate change adaptation and mitigation. (lu.se)
  • A recent study predicts that as climate change worsens and deforestation intensifies in the region, the risk of forest fires will only continue to increase. (mongabay.com)
  • Let's hear it for Brazil, which made the world's largest climate pledge in both absolute and relative terms: a 42% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 relative to 2005. (cgdev.org)
  • Climate scientist Elena Surovyatkina, who leads monsoon research within the B-EPICC project at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, has observed the areas most vulnerable to climate change and lends a hand with long-term forecasts for the timing of the rainy season. (pik-potsdam.de)
  • Surovyatkina's expedition aimed to reveal the areas most vulnerable to climate change. (pik-potsdam.de)
  • Read stories and explore free resources to get involved, or further critical plant conservation efforts with a gift of support. (ntbg.org)
  • The Preservation and Conservation department employs 19 students in positions ranging from digitization to book repair to conservation. (uiowa.edu)
  • Among the first of its kind to use social networking technologies for outreach and education in preservation, Duke University Libraries' preservation and conservation program has created a Web presence using Flickr, Twitter and Facebook. (ala.org)
  • The aim of the course is to give advanced and applied knowledge of the landscapes of the Earth and the processes (particularly abiotic), through which the landscapes are developed and changed in different climates and and spatial context. (lu.se)
  • We examined the impacts of 27 forest conservation projects in six countries on three continents using synthetic control methods for causal inference. (cifor.org)
  • You will mainly study Nordic conditions, but tropical and subtropical environments are also treated. (lu.se)
  • The course focus on both nordic conditions and the conditions in tropical and subtropical environments. (lu.se)
  • Water is the primary limiting resource in the tropical deciduous forest and phenological patterns are stronger than in wet forests (Bullock 1995, Holbrook et al. (desertmuseum.org)
  • Plant diversity patterns in neotropical dry forests and their conservation implications. (scienceopen.com)
  • This is particularly true for a country like Tanzania that has the Indian Ocean coastal area, tropical savanna, and mountains. (pik-potsdam.de)
  • It corresponds to the Savanna climate zone - tropical grassland with scattered bushes. (pik-potsdam.de)
  • The National Wildlife Federation's International Wildlife Conservation team works to advance "zero deforestation" agricultural production in tropical regions by collaborating with companies to develop and strengthen policies that safeguard tropical forests and protect wildlife. (nwf.org)
  • Another most affected region by climate change is Southern Tanzania, located in the coastal belt of the mainland in a low elevation zone between the mountain region and the Indian Ocean coastline. (pik-potsdam.de)
  • Given their location in coastal zones, resurrecting a single fish pond requires completing a complex permitting procedure - so Conservation International (CI) is helping streamline the process. (conservation.org)
  • Low-lying coastal ecological zones are already affected by rising sea levels and other marine -related climate change effects. (cifor.org)
  • You will learn about the processes by which landscapes evolve and change in different climate and space scales. (lu.se)
  • By naming and elevating 'Climate' in this manner as a top priority of his administrative agenda, President Biden has done something that is significant, long overdue and urgently needed. (commondreams.org)
  • In short, without public awakening and grassroots mobilization there would not be the expansive government-wide Biden climate mitigation team and the model that we now see and celebrate and in which we find radical hope for social transformation. (commondreams.org)
  • The science is clear that halting the loss of tropical forests is critical to achieving global climate goals. (wri.org)
  • Full participation in global climate action inspires a race to the top. (cgdev.org)
  • New research identifies tropical countries where targeted investment can have the greatest impact on reducing global emissions in the short term. (nature.org)
  • New research incorporates conservation considerations into occupational health and safety frameworks. (nature.org)
  • The tool developed by this study has three major components: 1) perform meta-analysis --synthesize and combine recent relevant studies to arrive at conclusions about a body of research on temperature and precipitation changes, 2) develop climate scenario(s) [synthetic or incremental] from meta-analysis, Incremental scenario refers to a method of scenario development where a climatic variable is changed incrementally by arbitrary amounts and 3) development causal chain and loops. (floridaclimateinstitute.org)
  • A new video released by UNFCCC and Sir David Attenborough at COP24 shows that 94% of consumers are willing to change their daily behaviour to tackle climate change. (medium.com)
  • 2 Risk analysis indicates that emergence is driven by multiple factors including socioeconomic circumstances, 2,3 climate and land-use changes, 4,5 and pathogen pollution (the anthropogenic global movement of pathogens). (who.int)
  • Only 4% of reefs and 6% of MPAs were located within areas less likely to experience climate shifts. (relx.com)
  • Most concessions were granted in areas inhabited by people dependent on the forest, many have Pygmies living in them, and a third is in areas identified as vital for conservation. (wrm.org.uy)
  • Such high floristic turnover indicates that numerous conservation areas across many countries will be needed to protect the full diversity of tropical dry forests. (scienceopen.com)
  • Many of the most popular travel destinations are hot tropical or arid areas. (cdc.gov)
  • Indonesia has more tropical wetlands than any other country on Earth. (cifor.org)
  • Standardised methods and protocols are needed for effective monitoring, reporting and verification of emissions from land use and land cover change in tropical wetlands. (cifor.org)