This means that other countries would need to cut 42 % of their emissions just to
absorb our carbon offsets.
Not exact matches
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.
When plants are turned into fuel and then burned, the
carbon released is just what the plants
absorbed, potentially
offsetting the emissions.
Phytoplankton are tiny organisms that are critical in
offsetting climate change because they undergo a process called photosynthesis, whereby they
absorb large enough amounts of heat - trapping
carbon dioxide to cool Earth's warming environment while releasing much of oxygen we breathe.
As for plants soaking up the excess, forests and other vegetation are indeed major
carbon sinks that can
absorb lots of
carbon — in other words, healthy forests could
offset some of our global warming pollution.
The business plan had been to sell «
carbon offset» credits earned by triggering blooms of phytoplankton that, in theory, would
absorb a predictable amount of the climate - warming gas
carbon dioxide through photosynthesis and then sink to the seabed.
I sure wouldn't want to buy «
carbon offsets» based on throwing scrap iron overboard until there's some kind of model in place that can accurately predict how much phytoplankton would be produced and CO2
absorbed.
Will hurricanes worsen or mellow, will new trees
absorb more sunlight and heat than they
offset by sequestering
carbon, etc etc..
Along with a boosted catch, a second hoped - for payoff was the sale of
carbon credits on international markets aimed at
offsetting greenhouse gas pollution by financing projects that
absorb heat - trapping
carbon dioxide — typically by planting trees but in this case through spurring plankton growth.
They exclude it based on the assumption that this release of
carbon dioxide is matched and implicitly
offset by the
carbon dioxide
absorbed by the plants growing the biomass.
As for plants soaking up the excess, forests and other vegetation are indeed major
carbon sinks that can
absorb lots of
carbon — in other words, healthy forests could
offset some of our global warming pollution.
They exclude it based on the theory that this release of
carbon dioxide is matched and implicitly «
offset» by the
carbon dioxide
absorbed by the plants growing the biomass feedstock.
Or you can take responsibility for them, by ensuring that an equivalent amount of
carbon is either
absorbed, or avoids being emitted elsewhere, through
carbon offsetting.
This leaves only a few dollars margin to
absorb other factors such as potential
carbon offset costs, likely inflation in labour, materials and energy costs.
Higher abundance of phytoplankton and krill attracts other forms of sea life and may help
offset climate change by
absorbing larger amounts of
carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
One thing the team, which also included scientists working in Brazil, are certain about, however, is that for this year at least, the Amazon Rainforest will be unable to
absorb sufficient
carbon so as to
offset the ecological damage being wrought by deforestation, logging and fires.
«Two unusual and extreme droughts occurring within a decade may largely
offset the
carbon absorbed by intact Amazon forests during that time,» explained University of Leeds researcher and principal author of the study Dr Simon Lewis.
Some
offset projects, such as mass tree plantings aimed at
absorbing carbon dioxide, deliver climate benefits that are difficult to measure.
Trees take years to reach maturity, and during their early years as saplings, trees can only
absorb a limited amount of
carbon from the atmosphere, meaning that
carbon offset projects usually do not deliver actual emission reductions in the atmosphere for many years, possibly decades, after the trees are planted...
However, this uplift will be eroded by pipeline costs and diluent expenses to around $ 5.5 / barrel, leaving only a few dollars margin to
absorb any other factors, including production cost increases,
carbon offset costs, and any future price discounts.