Sentences with phrase «forest land accounts»

Forest land accounts for the largest sink in Japan.

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The groups said the United States should make the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of forests in developing nations a central goal of federal climate legislation, as tropical deforestation and other land - use decisions account for about 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

«With land use sector emissions accounting for 25 percent of all global warming pollution, it is essential that countries with the potential to reduce emissions in this sector — like the U.S., EU, and Mexico — clearly commit to doing so in their INDCs,» said Doug Boucher, director of UCS's Tropical Forest and Climate Initiative.

Agricultural lands account for 68.3 % of total soil losses, while forests account for less than 1 %.

This final number lies below earlier estimates from atmospheric tests and above land - based figures, which did not take into account such carbon sinks as woody debris, forest litter and soil.

In another account, Herjólfsson is «beset by winds from the north and fog» and ends up finding land covered with forests to the west of Greenland.

In order to account for the characteristic features of cascading use, wood researcher Michael Risse applied the holistic life cycle approach and analyzed the exergy of all materials used, the internal recycling processes, and the consumption of other primary resources, such as the forest land areas required.

«Land collectively owned by rural communities accounts for 60 % of China's forest land and the vast majority of China's newly - established forest cover» said Fangyuan Hua, a Newton International Fellow at the University of Cambridge and lead author of the stLand collectively owned by rural communities accounts for 60 % of China's forest land and the vast majority of China's newly - established forest cover» said Fangyuan Hua, a Newton International Fellow at the University of Cambridge and lead author of the stland and the vast majority of China's newly - established forest cover» said Fangyuan Hua, a Newton International Fellow at the University of Cambridge and lead author of the study.

The highest correlations between the net land carbon flux and continental biome mean fire weather season metrics were observed in the tropical and subtropical forests, grasslands and savannas and xeric shrublands of South America where regional fire weather season length metrics accounted for between 15.7 and 29.7 % of the variations in global net land carbon flux (Table 5).

A previous change, accounting for the reality that many devastating wildfires were in open grassy lands, took the message from «Only you can prevent forest fires» in 1947 to «Only you can prevent wildfires» in 2001.

To the North, Canada has 859 million acres (348 million hectares) of forest land, accounting for nine percent of forests in the world, or nearly 25 acres (10 hectares) per Canadian.

If there's an excess coming into atmosphere not accounted for by ocean outgassing, or known land / biosphere emissions, or fossil fuels, or boosted northern forest growth (and decay), or permafrost melt, then it's necessary to look for it.

12 November 2013 WARSAW Poland India has a Constitution; Germany has a Grundgesetz; and the Terrestrial Carbon Accounting world has its Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land - Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF)-- a 5,000 - page compendium of science - based rules for measuring, monitoring, and accounting for the carbon captured in forests, farms, andAccounting world has its Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land - Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF)-- a 5,000 - page compendium of science - based rules for measuring, monitoring, and accounting for the carbon captured in forests, farms, andaccounting for the carbon captured in forests, farms, and prairies.

«China falls short by not presenting a detailed framework on how to account for forest emissions and sequestration, though it is transparent and specific on actions relating to agriculture, forestry, and other land use.»

Only in the USA is more forest land under private ownership with non-industrial and industrial owners together accounting for 57 % of forest ownership.

In summary, these results demonstrate the potential for synergies and sensitivities of ecological response to forest loss in disparate regions via ecoclimate teleconnections, which will need to be accounted for as global forest loss increases and climate dynamics are altered in response to land use and climate change.

According to the latest IPCC findings, forests and land use collectively account for 24 % of global emissions - 10 - 12 GtCo2e annually.

Ministers must therefore ensure emissions from forests and land use are accurately accounted and reject the options on the table with the lowest environmental integrity.

Funds from the Forest Resilience Account must be used to improve forest and natural lands health and resilience to climate change through projects such as thinning and prescribed fires, with priority given to projects identified by existing forest health treatment legislForest Resilience Account must be used to improve forest and natural lands health and resilience to climate change through projects such as thinning and prescribed fires, with priority given to projects identified by existing forest health treatment legislforest and natural lands health and resilience to climate change through projects such as thinning and prescribed fires, with priority given to projects identified by existing forest health treatment legislforest health treatment legislation.

The main land use item we followed was APA item 3 (c), which was also the hot topic among land - focused civil society because of it's impact on how parties under the Paris Agreement account for their emissions by sources (deforestation, agriculture) and removals by sinks (forests, agriculture) from the land sector in their NDCs.

Its methodology involves constructing and comparing two separate «accounts,» representing the supply and demand of renewable biological resources across six mutually exclusive land - use types: cropland, grazing land, forest, fishing ground, built - up land, and the area of forest required to offset human carbon emissions (the carbon footprint).

«Today's ruling makes sure that coal mines can't build roads in Colorado's precious national forest roadless areas unless and until the Forest Service makes an honest accounting of the huge amounts of climate pollution that such mining may cause,» said Alli Melton, Public Lands Direction for Crested Butte - based High Country Conservation Advoforest roadless areas unless and until the Forest Service makes an honest accounting of the huge amounts of climate pollution that such mining may cause,» said Alli Melton, Public Lands Direction for Crested Butte - based High Country Conservation AdvoForest Service makes an honest accounting of the huge amounts of climate pollution that such mining may cause,» said Alli Melton, Public Lands Direction for Crested Butte - based High Country Conservation Advocates.

Forest regrowth may account for a large part of the land carbon sink in some regions (e.g., Pacala et al., 2001; Schimel et al., 2001; Hurtt et al., 2002; Sitch et al., 2005), while combustion of vegetation and soil organic matter may be responsible for a significant fraction of the interannual variability in CO2 (Cochrane, 2003; Nepstad et al., 2004; Kasischke et al., 2005; Randerson et al., 2005).

June 19, 2016 — The United Nations new report shows that of the drylands which cover about 41 % of the world's land surface, 1.1 billion hectares are forest, accounting for more than one - quarter of the global forest area.

The «Flexible Land Use» proposal, being heavily marketed by New Zealand, allows countries to cut down trees and replant them somewhere else, but instead of counting this as deforestation and reforestation and counting the emissions accordingly, it brings this under forest management rules — the ones that allow countries not to account for substantial increases in logging emissions compared to historical levels.

The study highlights the need for global efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (as in the initiative known as REDD +) to take into account carbon emissions lost through changing land - use practices and the challenges of reforesting and restoring degraded tropical peatlands.

While scientists have long understood the carbon storing potential of tropical peatland forests — they lock up to five times more carbon than tropical forests and account for a third of the world's total carbon reserves — much less is known about the actual amounts of carbon stored in their soils and the impacts of unsustainable land - use practices.

Over the past two years it has expended vast political capital lobbying the EU to weaken its rules on how members account for emissions from forests and land.