Sentences with phrase «carbon stocks»

Over time, this approach could seriously undermine global climate change mitigation and result in a loss of forest carbon stocks in developed country forests.

It's the second - largest forest carbon stock on the planet.

The combination of the two investigations resulted in the estimate of carbon stock available today.

A 4 % annual growth rate of soil carbon stock would make it possible to stop the present increase of CO2 within the atmosphere.

Most soils have a limit, and increased organic carbon stock in soils depends on the type of soils and what the land is used for.

Working with the scientific community to develop and build their capacity in assessing carbon stocks, climate change impact, and also the implications of sea - level rise.

They have very large carbon stocks just below the surface and so could be relatively easily estimated.

As the discussion showed, there is already plenty of information available on blue carbon stocks — the challenge now is to put the research into action as policy.

This manual provides scientists and coastal managers with a practical tool for measuring carbon stocks in coastal and marine ecosystems.

Poor land use practices can and have caused massive releases of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from carbon stocks.

This has reduced carbon stocks and had a negative impact on biodiversity and forest dependent people.

According to their research, the majority of already protected carbon stocks exist only in 10 parks and reserves, and just four of these are fully enforced.

Nonetheless, a growing body of research is showing that no - till systems lose carbon stocks over time.

It contains a set of definitions relating to wood products, global data on stocks and trade of wood products and descriptions of methodologies for estimating and measuring carbon stocks contained in these products.

Our government is also studying carbon stocks in the soil, and is doing a forest inventory, and we have a forest investment program.

In the 20th century, carbon stocks fell dramatically due to deforestation, intensive farming and the associated poor cultivation practices.

The annual extra carbon stocks have declined over the past 20 years as more bricks, concrete, metal and plastics have been used to build houses.

More academic papers added to the body of research showing the importance of protecting wildlife, including large - bodied birds and mammals, for maintaining forest carbon stocks.

This information can prove a powerful tool to guide decision - making on practices that aim to preserve and increase the current soil carbon stocks, helping win the fight against climate change.

It builds upon other certification systems, such as the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil, and tackles some of the most challenging issues facing the palm oil sector, such as the destruction of high carbon stock forests and the abuse of the most vulnerable workers,» said Matthias Diemer, Chair of the Palm Oil Innovation Group.

Forests present a significant global carbon stock accumulated through growth of trees and an increase in soil carbon.

When reporting corporate - level greenhouse gas inventories, the accounting of terrestrial carbon stock changes associated with harvesting and combustion of biomass may fall within the organizational boundaries of different companies, i.e., the wood being burned is not cut on land owned by the company.

The overall development goal of the Programme is to reduce forest emissions and enhance carbon stocks in forests while contributing to national sustainable development.

The authors conservatively estimate that an average of 5.8 per cent of the above - ground carbon stock of Amazonian forests could be lost if vulnerable large - bodied fruit - eating mammal species continue to be hunted out, even if the forest is protected against other threats.

The new map reveals that the total aboveground carbon stock of the country is currently 6.9 billion metric tons.

Although droughts can cause hydrological conditions that favor wildfires, they can also suppress wildfire occurrences by reducing vegetation carbon stocks and hence the fuel - availability necessary for the ignition of wildfires (van der Werf et al. 2004; Lehmann et al. 2014).

This Special Report discusses the global carbon cycle and how different land use and forestry activities currently affect standing carbon stocks and emissions of greenhouse gases.

Third, soil carbon sequestration aims to increase soil carbon stocks through land management practices such as reducing agricultural tillage, planting more deeply - rooted species, and incorporating relatively persistent compounds (e.g., biochar) into soil for long - term storage.

«Mapping reveals targets for preserving tropical carbon stocks.»

Indeed, there appears to be little debate about the science of measuring and monitoring carbon stocks in forests, farms, and peat bogs — and plenty about where to draw the lines that the science will be applied to.

With a view of decreasing the reporting burden, Parties will receive templates prepopulated with default data on the three biophysical indicators (namely trends in land cover, trends in land productivity, and trends in carbon stocks above and below ground) and associated metrics.

An important feature of LULUCF activities in this context is their potential reversibility hence, non-permanence of the accumulated carbon stocks.

But the CO2 emissions from bioenergy only appear in the land sector if there is a change in carbon stocks on land (shown as zero in the figure).

Carrefour published its Sourcing Policy on Sustainable Palm Oil in 2014 which includes the RSPO standard and additional criteria such as protection of peat lands and high carbon stock areas.

«Our results imply that the time to recover carbon stocks does not significantly vary across the entire Amazon Basin, despite a well - known Northeast - Southwest environmental gradient,» Rutishauser says.

Annual mangrove carbon stocks are quantified (2000 — 2012) at global, national and sub-national levels, together with global carbon emissions resulting from deforestation.

Discussions here and towards Warsaw should promote equity by ensuring adequate incentives for countries with less capacity as well as countries with significant carbon stocks but lower deforestation rates, while ensuring the integrity of the climate system.

That time to recover initial carbon stocks after selective logging depended almost exclusively on logging intensity — that is, on the amount of tree biomass removed or killed during timber harvesting.

Mangroves, she explained, contain the second highest carbon stocks after peatlands, storing three to four times as much carbon as tropical forests.

The Katingan Project works within the framework of the UN's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD +) program, which focuses on quantifying carbon stocks while recognizing the need to safeguard local livelihoods and biodiversity.

Tree plantations and degraded forests, logged or otherwise, have far lower carbon stocks and carbon - storage capacity than primary forests, and suffer from severe biodiversity loss, according to forest and climate experts from the Ecosystems Climate Alliance.

Additionally, the tropical forest carbon stocks layer is being stored and served from Google Maps Engine and styled by Earth Engine, the Imazon SAD data are created using Imazon's algorithms on Earth Engine, and analyses of the Hansen / UMD / Google / USGS / NASA data, as well as computations of area, are being performed by Earth Engine.