AGRICOLTURA

Heads of state, civil society groups and the leaders of some of the world’s largest companies this week urged their peers to sign on to a landmark

new global agreement aimed at halting deforestation by 2030, even as others are warning the accord is too lax. "The New York Declaration on Forests" was signed last week by some 150 parties at a United Nations-organised climate summit. Outlining pledges and goals for both the public and private sectors, for the first time the declaration set a global “deadline” for deforestation: to “At least halve the rate of loss of natural forest globally by 2020 and strive to end natural forest loss by 2030.” (...)

The article:
http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/10/new-global-declaration-insufficient-to-tackle-deforestation/

The Declaration:
http://www.un.org/climatechange/summit/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/07/FORESTS-Action-Statement_revised.pdf

More about:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141022103440.htm

http://news.mongabay.com/2014/1023-hance-commodities-deforestation.html

CDP’s Global Forests Report - The Business Case for Ending Deforestation:

http://www.environmentalleader.com/2014/11/11/the-business-case-for-ending-deforestation/

The Report:

https://www.cdp.net/CDPResults/CDP-global-forests-report-2014.pdf

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La deforestazione tropicale raddoppierà il riscaldamento globale e danneggerà l’agricoltura mondiale:

http://www.greenreport.it/news/aree-protette-e-biodiversita/deforestazione-tropicale-raddoppiera-riscaldamento-globale-danneggera-lagricoltura-mondiale/

Sull'argomento:

http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2014/12/deforestation-in-the-tropics-affects-climate-around-the-world-study-finds/

Lo studio:

http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v5/n1/full/nclimate2430.html

Passato... presente:
http://www.fabiomanzione.it/index.php?searchword=deforestazione&ordering=newest&searchphrase=all&limit=0&option=com_search