Sentences with phrase «carbon sink»

Researchers have often looked to terrestrial forests as carbon sinks as well.

And, it's not as simple as controlling emissions, there is also the question of how we do at making the most of carbon sinks.

New research shows that future plant growth may be restricted by nutrient availability, turning the land carbon sink into a source.

It was also 12 percent below 2005 levels after accounting for reductions from carbon sinks.

For example, soil is second only to oceans as the planet's largest carbon sink, while agriculture and land use changes represent the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

This paper outlines a new framework for assessing errors and their impact on the uncertainties associated with calculating carbon sinks on land and in oceans.

The range would be pushed even higher if climate - greenhouse gas feedbacks from land and ocean carbon sinks were also included.

But most studies have not found an increase in the rate of organic carbon sinking into deeper waters.

The authors argue that for tropical forests to remain an important carbon sink, indigenous groups will need greater control over their forests.

The new findings will boost our understanding of the supply chain to the world's biggest carbon sink — the bottom of the ocean.

The Victorian parks network is a major carbon sink with at least 270 million tonnes of carbon stored in land - based parks.

BTW, the commercial cultivation of bamboo for multiple products is great carbon sink.

«It is a good average but it doesn't describe the dynamics of the system where the ocean might be a good carbon sink,» he notes.

They are also effective carbon sinks because they store carbon dioxide.

[111] The actual calculation of net emissions is very complex, and is affected by how carbon sinks are allocated between regions and the dynamics of the climate system.

Plus, the natural carbon sinks seem to wear out.

(1) A few years back, there was much discussion of the terrestrial «missing carbon sink».

Cutting down forest carbon sinks doesn't work well.

There are many other factors to consider, such as the increase in carbon sinks due to the fertilizer effect of atmospheric CO2 on all plant life.

The finding will help reduce uncertainties surrounding terrestrial carbon sink estimates.

As a gigantic carbon sink, the ocean has taken up about a third of the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by human activities.

Similarly, it argues for a joined up approach, with an emphasis on protecting existing carbon sinks.

Apparently, these natural carbon sinks only do their job effectively in tropical regions; in other areas, they have either no impact or actually contribute to warming the planet.

It shows variations in concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and will turn down only when CO2 removed from the atmosphere by carbon sinks exceeds emissions — a very distant prospect.

The long - feared saturation of one the world's primary carbon sinks has apparently started.

The glacial carbon sink remains a topic of considerable research activity.

I hadn't realised that the rate of absorption of all possible carbon sinks was extremely well known.

«The region's land carbon sink contributes to the sequestration of a significant percentage of the global emissions,» he said.

If the turnaround is sufficiently swift on CO2 and other greenhouse gas reductions, fewer carbon sinks will be needed, they write.

«During this delay there is an apparent carbon sink,» he says.

Researchers can measure carbon sinks either by tracking carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere or by taking inventory of trees in the forests.

Perhaps no surplus carbon sink exists at all to absorb the emissions caused by burning of fossil fuels accumulated in the earth over millions of years.

I'm not minimizing the challenges in creating a robust scheme, but it should certainly award sectors that can provide relatively inexpensive carbon sinks.

If the airborne fraction is increasing, it is possibly a recent phenomenon due to natural carbon sinks losing their absorption ability after becoming saturated.

The amount generally credited for land use changes looks closer to the amount of carbon sinking eliminated than actual emissions which are 30 + % of fossil fuel emissions.

The oceans are the largest active carbon sink on the planet, covering more than 70 per cent of its surface area, and are predicted to grow as sea levels rise.

The poorer you are the more likely you are to use carbon cycle fuels rather than carbon sink fuels.

However, its role as a net carbon sink is affected by land - use changes such as deforestation and expanded agricultural practice.