Sentences with phrase «absorb our carbon emissions»

However, when that sink begins to become less effective, the percent falls, and the diminished capacity to absorb our carbon emissions would be counted as a feedback.

Scientists warn that the oceans could eventually become saturated with CO2, compromising their capacity to absorb our carbon emissions, with serious consequences for the global thermostat.

Like the financial markets that already exist, the new system would put a value on rainforests in order to protect the benefits they bring such as absorbing carbon emissions, generating fresh water and preserving wildlife.

«What we are seeing is a decrease in the planet's ability to absorb carbon emissions due to human activity,» Dr Canadell says.

The destruction of natural ecosystems — whether rain forest in the tropics or grasslands in South America — not only releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere when they are burned and plowed, but also deprives the planet of natural sponges to absorb carbon emissions.

Because the added warmth is making vegetation less able to absorb our carbon emissions, scientists expect the rate of warming to jump substantially in the coming years.

At this week's climate conference in Montreal there have been a number of proposals to plant trees for the purpose of absorbing carbon emissions and helping mitigate climate change.

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.»

This is far from clear: a proper carbon pricing policy would favour firms that are profitable enough to absorb the cost of GHG emissions, and penalise those who can only survive if emissions are not priced.

Globally, about 32 million acres of forest is destroyed each year, mostly in the tropics and, because trees absorb carbon dioxide, deforestation is responsible for some 15 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions.

What is even more worrying is the possibility that regions that were absorbing carbon may emerge as sources of carbon emissions as the permafrost melts.

Oceans are taking in about 90 percent of the excess heat created by human greenhouse gas emissions, but they're also absorbing some of the carbon dioxide (CO2) itself.

In the first study of its kind, scientists have calculated the amount of carbon absorbed by the world's tropical forests and the amounts of greenhouse gas emissions created by loss of trees, as a result of human activity.

Researchers estimate that if all human - related deforestation of the tropics were to stop, the forests could absorb more carbon than at present, equivalent to one - fifth of global emissions.

In one case, a power company paid $ 13.7 million to reforest 100,000 acres of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service land in Mississippi in the expectation that every acre of trees would absorb enough carbon dioxide to offset 150 tons of greenhouse - gas emissions over the life span of the trees.

Photo credit: DRIChakrabarty and colleagues found to their surprise that funeral pyre emissions contain sunlight - absorbing organic carbon aerosols known as brown carbon.

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.

When plants are turned into fuel and then burned, the carbon released is just what the plants absorbed, potentially offsetting the emissions.

«It's important to note that the article doesn't address the direct and immediate impact of forest burning, such as emissions of black carbon [considered a major driver of global warming owing to its high capacity for absorbing solar radiation].

The reason using existing cropland for biofuels tends not to show up as yielding large reductions in greenhouse gas emissions is simply because those croplands are already absorbing large quantities of carbon.

The paper confirms that as carbon emissions continue to climb, so too has Earth's capacity to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

He says the only answer may be immediate cuts in emissions of carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels, which would curb the amount of bleaching and limit acidification of oceans that results when they absorb carbon dioxide.

Critics argue that albedo modification and other «geoengineering» schemes are risky and would discourage nations from trying to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas that comes from the burning of fossil fuels and that is causing global warming by absorbing increasing amounts of energy from sunlight.

Forests in the United States absorb and store more than 750 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year, or more than 10 percent of national carbon emissions.

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.

Emissions of carbon dioxide are already far higher than the forests and oceans can absorb.

Those steps include deriving 40 % of electric power capacity from fossil fuel — free sources by 2030, reducing its emissions intensity by 33 % to 35 % by 2030, and expanding forests to create a carbon sink capable of absorbing 2.5 billion to 3 billion tons of carbon from the atmosphere.

Together, they confirm estimates from atmospheric chemists that natural tropical forests absorb about a fifth of our carbon emissions.

GRAB IT WITH ARTIFICIAL TREES To corral widely dispersed CO2 emissions from cars, «artificial trees» — towers filled with carbon - absorbing materials — could line roadways, pulling the gas from the air and compressing it into a storable form.

The rich world should absorb the incremental increase in carbon emissions, he said.

Since the 17th century, the seas have absorbed about a third of human - caused carbon dioxide emissions.

Russia says its 2030 pledge will include the highest possible estimate of carbon dioxide absorbed by forests when they come to count its national emissions.

Forests and other land vegetation currently remove up to 30 percent of human carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere during photosynthesis, but thanks to this latest study, experts now know that we have tropical forests to thank for a great deal of this work - absorbing a whopping 1.4 billion metric tons of CO2 out of a total total global absorption of 2.5 billion metric tons.

The oceans have absorbed approximately one third of human - produced CO2 emissions, dampening the effects of carbon dioxide - driven greenhouse warming.

The study's authors point to a future with greater reliance on nuclear and renewable energy, reducing emissions through new technologies that capture and store carbon dioxide, and expanding forests to naturally absorb and store carbon.

While the 2030 target is explicit that carbon dioxide absorbed by forests will count towards its overall emissions reductions, it is unclear whether they are permitted in its 2020 target.

Trees absorb carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere and release clean oxygen.

For temperature change to stabilise, he says industrial carbon emissions must not exceed what can be absorbed by Earth's vegetation, soil and oceans.

Even the most straightforward credits — those that protect plots of forest to absorb excess carbon emissions, for example — have flaws.

Forests absorb a third of the world's annual carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

The situation with the planet's forests makes it more important than ever that the world's governments come together to finally agree to a deal to protect forests, which absorb as much as 25 percent of our carbon emissions.

It is precisely this upwelling which has resulted in the recent diminished capacity of the Antarctic Ocean to absorb as much of our carbon emissions.

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.

Moreover, the ocean (which has been responsible for absorbing as much as 80 % of anthropogenic emissions) can become saturated, or as temperatures rise in the temperate regions or winds increase in arctic regions and stir up carbon dioxide from below, act as an emitter.

Since over half our emissions are absorbed, that means atmospheric carbon will begin to drop.

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.

Nevertheless, we know that a wooden frame can absorb shocks and impacts better than metal frames, and is more durable and has a smaller ecological footprint than metal too (Mohorič claims that you would save 14 kilograms in carbon emissions by using this bike over a metal one).

Now scientists say they may have discovered one of those unanticipated possibilities: a significant change in the ear anatomy of fish raised in water with elevated concentrations of carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping emission, much of which is absorbed by the sea.

Uh, Dan H, the ocean is absorbing about 40 % of current carbon emissions, which hardly leaves room for vegetation to be soaking up 50 %, given that about 50 % is being retained in the atmosphere.

The health of forests globally is gaining attention, because trees are thought to absorb a third of all industrial carbon emissions, transferring carbon dioxide into soil and wood.