Sentences with phrase «carbon emissions from deforestation»

The United Nations REDD initiative could create financial incentives to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation.

conversion of Indonesia's most carbon - dense ecosystems reduces the country's potential to earn compensation under the proposed REDD mechanism for reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.

Indonesia, whose rapid clearing of rainforests accounts for about one - quarter of all carbon emissions from deforestation globally, has said that it will pledge to cut its emissions by 40 % from 2005 levels by 2030, if it receives international support: Currently deforestation is the source of 80 % of Indonesia's carbon emissions, and when these emissions are included in the nation's total (they aren't always, on some charts of highest emitting nations) it is in the top ten emitters — right up there with the US, China, and other industrial nations.

Mongabay: The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched a global set of statistics on carbon emissions from deforestation, agriculture and other forms of land use for the 1990 - 2010 period.

In six countries across the tropics, CIFOR researchers collected data in villages participating in 16 initiatives that fall under the umbrella of REDD + — part of efforts recognized under the Paris Agreement to mitigate carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.

Payments for reduced carbon emissions from deforestation (RED) are now attracting attention as a way to halt tropical deforestation.

In a major decision that the ethanol industry called «workable,» the Obama Administration ruled that carbon emissions from deforestation abroad should count in determining the carbon footprint of biofuels.

So far, climate change policies on the tropics have effectively been focusing on reducing carbon emissions from deforestation only, not accounting for emissions coming from forest degradation.

Not exact matches

The goal includes an ambitious end - to - end approach to reduce its carbon footprint through actions to reduce deforestation in its agricultural supply chain as well as to cut carbon dioxide emissions from manufacturing by an absolute 15 percent, in line with science - based targets.

The project will help meet the country's overarching FIP goals by addressing the underlying drivers of deforestation and catalyzing transformational change through up - front investment to support the country's strategy on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancing forest carbon stodeforestation and catalyzing transformational change through up - front investment to support the country's strategy on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancing forest carbon stoDeforestation and Forest Degradation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancing forest carbon stocks (REDD +).

«Roughly around a billion tons of carbon a year comes from deforestation across the planet, compared to around 8.5 billion tons from fossil fuel emissions,» said Betts.

Furthermore, PES is going to play an even bigger role as the international community debates schemes to pay countries for the carbon stored by avoiding deforestation, an approach taken by the U.N. Development Programme called REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developindeforestation, an approach taken by the U.N. Development Programme called REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in DevelopinDeforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries).

With this in mind, the UN set up the REDD programme (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) in 2008, which will pay poorer countries to preserve their forests based on how much carbon dioxide they store.

Oceans play a key role in mitigating climate change, in part because they absorb about 25 % of global carbon - dioxide emissions from fossil - fuel burning and deforestation, he said.

Some 15 % of global carbon emissions result from deforestation and forest degradation, which releases carbon dioxide to the atmosphere as trees are destroyed.

REDD + (Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) is an UN-led programme aiming to increase carbon sequestration in tropical forests.

Prof Peres added: «Intergovernmental policies to reduce carbon emissions from tropical countries have primarily focused on deforestation, and to a lesser extent on forest degradation resulting from timber extraction and wildfires.

«We hope that our findings will encourage UN programmes on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD +) to consider faunally intact forests and their full functionality as a critical precondition of maintaining forest carbon stocks.»

Considering all the attention carbon emissions are getting in Paris right now, it might be worth remembering where one - sixth of the world's emissions come from: deforestation.

He points to mitigation efforts discussed at Copenhagen, such as REDD (reduced emissions from forest deforestation and forest degradation), which would encourage forest preservation, thereby both helping to put the brakes on carbon dioxide levels and providing more room for many species to move — a plan he calls a «win - win situation.»

Moutinho started his career studying ants but has spent most of his time in recent years looking at ways to use carbon markets to stem emissions from deforestation while protecting biodiversity and the rights of indigenous people.

«(A) the technical capacity to monitor, measure, report, and verify forest carbon fluxes for all significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation with an acceptable level of uncertainty, as determined taking into account relevant internationally accepted methodologies, such as those established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;

«(C) the reduction in emissions from deforestation has occurred before the issuance of the international offset credit and, taking into consideration relevant international standards, has been demonstrated using ground - based inventories, remote sensing technology, and other methodologies to ensure that all relevant carbon stocks are accounted;

Around 15 % of the global carbon dioxide emissions that cause climate change come from deforestation, and much of that occurs in the Amazon.

«If by 2050 we slow deforestation by 50 per cent from current levels, with the aim of stopping deforestation when we have 50 per cent of the world's tropical forests remaining, this would save the emission of 50 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere.

Moreover, the program aims to enhance carbon storage from assisted forest regeneration and restoration to 14,000 tCO2eq in year 5 and 18,000 tCO2eq in year 10 and reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in project areas by 121,000 (tCO2eq) in year 5 and 243,000 (tCO2eq) in year 10.

The burgeoning carbon trade market, and it's related REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degredation) mechanism, could very well make land more attractive as an asset for foreign investors.

Globally, about 80 percent of human - induced carbon dioxide emissions comes from the burning of fossil fuels, while about 20 percent results from deforestation.

Yet, emissions from deforestation represent more than 10 % of global carbon emissions.

Experts estimate that carbon emissions from mangrove deforestation account for up to 10 % of emissions from deforestation globally, despite covering just 0.7 % of land coverage.

«REDD + [Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation] and similar carbon reduction projects... have given me hope because they provide financial incentives to protect chimpanzee habitat, and thus an alternative to the many economic pressures to destroy it.

Experts estimate that as much as 1.02 billion tons of carbon dioxide are being released annually from degraded coastal ecosystems, which is equivalent to 19 % of emissions from tropical deforestation globally *.

Nearly 15 % of the global carbon dioxide emissions that cause climate change come from deforestation, much of which occurs in the Brazilian Amazon.

Indigenous use of fire for hunting is an unlikely contributor to long - term carbon emissions, but it is an effective environmental management and recovery tool against agribusiness deforestation, a new study from Indiana University and Brazil's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation has found.

That's because if tropical deforestation stopped, not only would those emissions go away, but on top of that, forests would start stowing away a significant part of the carbon from our fossil fuel emissions.

For a long time, scientists and economists have hoped to avoid a situation in which the world CO2 emissions [from fossil fuel combustion and deforestation] passes 10 billion metric tons of carbon a year.

Rather, conserving Amazonian forests both reduces the carbon dioxide flux from deforestation, which contributes up to a fifth of global emissions, and also increases the resilience of the forest to climate change.

I've written quite a bit about whether markets in carbon credits earned by cutting, avoiding or absorbing such emissions — whether from avoided deforestation, tree planting, or leaving oil in the ground — are credible, sensible or doable.

The elements that I believe are key to a successful agreement in Copenhagen include: • Strong targets and timetables from industrialized countries and differentiated but binding commitments from developing countries that put the entire world under a system with one commitment: to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants that cause the climate crisis; • The inclusion of deforestation, which alone accounts for twenty percent of the emissions that cause global warming; • The addition of sinks including those from soils, principally from farmlands and grazing lands with appropriate methodologies and accounting.

In the absence of being able to make that policy call at this time on dangerous interference, what we're doing as an interim measure is working bottom up to see how aggressive can we be in finding a pathway to low - carbon power generation from coal, because that accounts for more than 50 percent of emissions; how aggressive can we be in transitioning to a much greater diversity of fuel supply than petroleum, and vehicle technology, and that's 20 percent of emissions; and then what can we do much more rapidly to halt deforestation, which is 20 percent of emissions.

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Ocean fertilization is one strategy scientists are mulling to blunt the unrelenting growth in carbon dioxide emissions from smokestacks, tailpipes and deforestation.

The «habitat loss» that is killing primates is mostly from tropical deforestation, which also causes 20 percent of the total carbon dioxide emissions contributing to climate change.

Additional actions include improved agricultural practices that enhance carbon sequestration in the soil, and improved forestry practices that reduce emissions from deforestation.

Brazil and Indonesia have high levels of deforestation and are responsible for much of the current carbon emissions from the land.

Further, emissions from deforestation account for 20 % of global carbon emissions, and there is concern that there would never be enough REDD projects to have a meaningful impact on the large magnitude of emissions from deforestation.

That story quoted environment minister Carlos Morales Vázquez as saying the state had cancelled a program that used the acronym «REDD» for Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, a term that generally refers to programs that harness carbon markets to save endangered rainforest using agreed - upon carbon standards and methodologies.

REDD refers to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation; REDD + refers to conservation of forest carbon stocks, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks.

He says «The ocean takes up roughly one quarter of human emissions to the atmosphere of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning and deforestation.»

While these forgotten gases account for only a small fraction of total greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, nitrous oxide is up to 300 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere when compared to carbon dioxide over a 100 - year time period.