Sentences with phrase «absorb carbon needs»

The discovery means that our understanding of the planet's carbon cycle, and the ocean's ability to absorb carbon needs to be revised.

Not exact matches

«If we're to keep global temperatures from rising to dangerous levels, we need to drastically reduce emissions and greatly increase forests» ability to absorb and store carbon.»

«Our bottle is revolutionary in that it will decrease — and why not eventually see disappear — glass packaging in favour of containers of plant origin with a negative carbon footprint (the plant absorbs more carbon that is needed to produce the bottle),» says the company.

Frankenforests Engineered trees that grow more quickly, absorbing more carbon dioxide and providing more wood and pulp without the need for toxic chemicals.

A company that needs to eliminate 1,000 tons of emissions from its ledger might pay for a project that will plant enough trees to absorb that amount of carbon dioxide.

Ecosystems need nitrogen and other nutrients to absorb carbon dioxide pollution, and there is a limited amount of it available from plants and soils.

Start by planting ten trees we each need to absorb the carbon dioxide we exhale.

To absorb the outstanding 240 Pg of carbon, they would need to increase their carbon content 2.67 times — thus containing 330 Pg of carbon.

Is the conventional wisdom that we need not worry about tailpipe emissions in biofuel - powered vehicles, because the plants had been absorbing carbon while growing, grossly misguided?

The carbon footprint, however, can be expressed in other ways that are more useful and more consistent with the original ecological footprint concept: the area of the Earth's surface needed to absorb those emissions.

Healthy forests absorb tremendous amounts of carbon dioxide, which we all need in order to survive.

The Global Footprint Network (GFN) has developed the concepts of biocapacity — the amount of land available to provide for human needs, and ecological footprint — the land needed to satisfy the consumption of different nations in a sustainable manner, including the biological capacity to absorb and mitigate the carbon dioxide emissions that lead to global warming.

«If we're to keep global temperatures from rising to dangerous levels, we need to drastically reduce emissions and greatly increase forests» ability to absorb and store carbon.

It's trees that desperate animals need to live in, and which would absorb more and more carbon if left standing.

He argues that more work is now needed to understand why the fraction of carbon that's absorbed from the atmosphere has stayed so steady for so long.

«The fact that the earth's atmosphere can not safely absorb the amount of carbon we are pumping into it is a symptom of a much larger crisis, one born of the central fiction on which our economic model is based: that nature is limitless, that we will always be able to find more of what we need, and that if something runs out it can be seamlessly replaced by another resource that we can endlessly extract.»

This means that other countries would need to cut 42 % of their emissions just to absorb our carbon offsets.

The EF methodology measures carbon footprint by calculating the hypothetical forest area needed to absorb all industrial carbon emissions, after discounting the fraction absorbed by oceans.

Ocean acidification poses an added danger to corals and other sea animals that need calcium carbonate to build shells or skeletons.3, 11,12 As concentrations of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere rise, the oceans absorb carbon dioxide and become more acidic.

The term «net carbon sink» needs to be clarified — all this means is that the North American forests are absorbing more carbon through photosynthesised growth than they are releasing through decay and night - time respiration.