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(Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change through Coastal Afforestation in Bangladesh).

Quick note on afforestation in California: CA used the irrigation provided by its water project to sustain large groves of fruit and nut trees (whose product had large commercial value); subsequently, many of these trees were sacrificed to enhance the natural environment of the Delta Snail Darter (which has no commercial value), which has resulted in large stands of dead or moribund trees.

The Black Death increased afforestation in Europe by one third, the mass death of farmers is bench marked across the Paleoclimatic climate records.

More than 120 countries included forests in their commitments, with activities ranging from afforestation in Afghanistan to sustainable forest management in Zambia.

This is somewhat offset by our greatly reduced adoption of afforestation in the Land Use Sector, compared to the IPCC and others.

Quick note on afforestation in California: CA used the irrigation provided by its water project to sustain large groves of fruit and nut trees (whose product had large commercial value); subsequently, many of these trees were sacrificed to enhance the natural environment of the Delta Snail Darter (which has no commercial value), which has resulted in large stands of dead or moribund trees.

Not exact matches

Another option proposed for the area was afforestation, but in view of the high density of rural population and the fertile soils this was dismissed and another alternative was sought.

Akeredolu, stated this at the inauguration ceremony of the planting of teak / gmelina seedlings by the West Africa Forest Plantations Limited at the Ondo State Afforestation Project, Ore in Odigbo Local Government Area of the state.

The need to privatise Ondo State Afforestation project becomes inevitable in order to avert dire consequences for the environment.

In his remarks, the Commissioner for Natural Resources, Mr. Rasheed Badmus, disclosed that the government had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Wewood Limited to plant the seedlings on 10,000 hectares of land while West African Plantation Limited would plant the remaining portion of the afforestation project.

The Association fingered the Project Coordinator of West Africa Afforestation Project in the state, Mr. Weluche Umez of extorting unsuspecting members of the union under false Pretence.

This is thought to be connected to a number of factors including, predation, afforestation, changes in land management and climate change.

According to him, his administration also issued the first green bond that would act as a catalyst for investments in renewable energy and afforestation projects «as we have established the Agro Rangers Unit within the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps to protect the investments recorded in agricultural sector across the country.»

The Ghana School Feeding Programme, National Afforestation Programme, Zongo Development Fund, and the Ghana Education Trust Fund are also mentioned in the lawsuit.

«Future land transitions are uncertain but relatively small changes in afforestation from agriculture resulted in substantial decrease in accumulation rates,» said Coulston.

«This is roughly double of the carbon prices discussed in the current political debate, and substantially more than cost estimates for afforestation which are at 24 Euros per ton of CO2 removed.

In some countries, notably China, aggressive afforestation efforts have led to an increase in forested areaIn some countries, notably China, aggressive afforestation efforts have led to an increase in forested areain forested areas.

Forest managers and aquatic biologists can use the study's data on specific streams for restoration planning and to assess the need for intervention (liming, riparian afforestation, native fish reintroduction) in stream reaches that are potentially vulnerable to warming, acidification, or both.

I thought I'd seen mentions of afforestation or predictive vegetation in the IPCC report.

Net loss of forest has slowed in recent years, due to both a slight decrease in deforestation and an increase in afforestation and the expansion of natural forests.

This seems highly unwise, and, as I discussed in a piece on HuffPost about it, «Methane in the Twilight Zone, Episode 2,» * the more that you're planning on doing anything about climate change — i.e., lowering GHG emissions, pulling carbon out of the system through biochar, afforestation, etc — the less sense it makes.

The report, however, relies overwhelmingly on bio-CCS and afforestation to achieve negative emissions in its scenarios that avoid this dangerous warming.

Implications of the inclusion of reforestation of lands with forest in exhaustion as afforestation and reforestation clean development mechanism project activities

The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its twentieth session, requested its Chair, with the assistance of the secretariat and on the basis of submissions by Parties contained in documents FCCC / SBSTA / 2004 / MISC.3 and FCCC / SBSTA / 2004 / MISC.4, and of inputs by Parties during the twentieth session of the SBSTA, to prepare a draft text for a decision on simplified modalities and procedures for small - scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the clean development mechanism and on measures to facilitate the implementation of these project activities, for consideration by the SBSTA at its twenty - first session.

Visiting Dinabandhu Gand of Kauguda village in the Kalahandi district of Odisha shows that CDM projects in afforestation and reforestation can do the opposite to what they are designed to.

Elion has been involved in eco-restoration for almost three decades, transforming deserts into green spaces through afforestation and sand erosion prevention projects.

This analytical report presents the main insights from the BioCarbon Fund experience in accompanying the development and implementation of Afforestation / Reforestation Clean Development Mechanism (A / R CDM) projects covering the following aspects: (i) CDM regulations, (ii) land - related issues, (iii) non-permanence, (iv) land - related issues, (v) greenhouse gas accounting, (vi) finance, (vii) institutional arrangements, (viii) and under - delivery risk.

Afforestation and natural expansion of forests in some countries and regions have reduced the net loss of forest area significantly at the global level (Figure 4).

Asia, which had a net loss of forest of some 600 000 ha annually in the 1990s, reported a net gain of forest of more than 2.2 million hectares per year in the period 2000 — 2010, primarily due to the large - scale afforestation reported by China and despite continued high rates of net loss in many countries in South and Southeast Asia.

This is called afforestation, and as I mentioned in the piece, it has already happened on a large scale in the eastern United States, the former Soviet Union, China and some other areas.

This decision defined small - scale afforestation or reforestation project activities as those that are expected to result in net anthropogenic GHG removals by sinks of less than 8 kilotonnes of carbon dioxide per year.

On the basis of submissions by Parties contained in documents FCCC / SBSTA / 2004 / MISC.3 and FCCC / SBSTA / 2004 / MISC.4, and of inputs by Parties during the SBSTA, a draft text for a decision on simplified modalities and procedures for small - scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the CDM and on measures to facilitate the implementation of these project activities was prepared.

SBSTA 16 (FCCC / SBSTA / 2002 / 6, paragraphs 33 (a)--(c)-RRB- initiated the discussions regarding definitions and modalities for including afforestation and reforestation project activities under the CDM in the first commitment period.

Reducing emissions (for example, by reducing deforestation) and enhancing removals (for example, by afforestation or reforestation) are already important components of some countries» emission reduction pledges and will no doubt continue to be so in the agreement concluded under the ADP.

Biological sequestration includes direct removal of CO2 from the atmosphere through land - use change, afforestation, reforestation, carbon storage in landfills and practices that enhance soil carbon in agriculture.

Moreover, CDR techniques can affect temperatures via SRM mechanisms too: afforestation — at least in higher latitudes — reduces albedo, producing offsetting warming, while OIF releases dimethyl sulphides which could have a significant impact on temperatures by reflecting incoming sunlight (analogous to, if more short - lived, than the effect of sulphates in the stratosphere).

In the meantime, while scientific research continues, you do not (or at least have not here) supported my idea that we'd be better off investing in flood control, reforestation and afforestation, and irrigatioIn the meantime, while scientific research continues, you do not (or at least have not here) supported my idea that we'd be better off investing in flood control, reforestation and afforestation, and irrigatioin flood control, reforestation and afforestation, and irrigation.

In terms of feedstock for CRFS, the global area of non-farmland and non-forest suitable for afforestation was found to be around 1.6 Gha.s (4.0 billion acres) in a recent joint study by WRI & WFIn terms of feedstock for CRFS, the global area of non-farmland and non-forest suitable for afforestation was found to be around 1.6 Gha.s (4.0 billion acres) in a recent joint study by WRI & WFin a recent joint study by WRI & WFN.

A potential weakness of CRFS in addressing the issue of around 170 ppm of airborne and marine (re-emitted) CO2 is the lead - time for native coppice afforestation of non-farmland for charcoal - feedstock, plus the oceans» thermal inertia timelag on the carbon sequestration's cooling effect.

On a global scale, the cooling effect of carbon sequestration dominates and, in this work, afforestation of all the climatically viable cropland gave a global temperature reduction of 0.45 oC by the end of this century.

Since every newly planted tree seedling in the tropics removes an average of 50 kilograms of CO2 from the atmosphere each year during its growth period of 20 — 50 years, compared with 13 kilograms of CO2 per year for a tree in the temperate regions, much of the afforestation and reforestation opportunity is found in tropical countries.

Researchers in Canada have used a comprehensive Earth system model to evaluate the climate impact of varying levels of afforestation, in different parts of the world.

In several cases, the implementation of AFOLU mitigation measures may result in an improvement in land management and therefore have socio ‐ economic, health, and environmental benefits: For example, reducing deforestation, reforestation, and afforestation can improve local climatic conditions, water quality, biodiversity conservation, and help to restore degraded or abandoned lanIn several cases, the implementation of AFOLU mitigation measures may result in an improvement in land management and therefore have socio ‐ economic, health, and environmental benefits: For example, reducing deforestation, reforestation, and afforestation can improve local climatic conditions, water quality, biodiversity conservation, and help to restore degraded or abandoned lanin an improvement in land management and therefore have socio ‐ economic, health, and environmental benefits: For example, reducing deforestation, reforestation, and afforestation can improve local climatic conditions, water quality, biodiversity conservation, and help to restore degraded or abandoned lanin land management and therefore have socio ‐ economic, health, and environmental benefits: For example, reducing deforestation, reforestation, and afforestation can improve local climatic conditions, water quality, biodiversity conservation, and help to restore degraded or abandoned land.

In comparison, the total gain estimated from the UN REDD programme if fully implemented (including slowing deforestation and wide afforestation programmes), would by 2050 according to the IPCC amount to approximately 12 - 15 % of the required emission reductions.

Especially, forestry mitigation options — including reduced deforestation, forest management, afforestation, and agro ‐ forestry — are estimated to contribute 0.2 ─ 13.8 GtCO2 / yr of economically viable abatement in 2030 at carbon prices up to 100 USD / tCO2eq.

Further considerations on economic co-benefits are related to the access to carbon payments either within or outside the UNFCCC agreements and new income opportunities especially in developing countries (particularly for labour ‐ intensive mitigation options such as afforestation).

In this section, we estimate resource requirements and ancillary damages associated with 1 Pg C y − 1 atmospheric carbon removal using either eucalyptus afforestation or switchgrass BECS.

Drawdown's yield model calculates total annual global supply of crops and livestock products based on their area of adoption in each of the three scenarios, and global yield impacts of each solution (including both gains due to increased productivity per hectare and losses due to reduction of productive area due to adoption of non-agricultural solutions, e.g., loss of grazing area due to afforestation of grasslands).

Afforestation Project in the South of Quebec: This project was created in 2014 to plant on 15 abandoned lands and sequesters a portion of Southern Quebec's atmospheric carbon for at least 50 years.

Established in 2014 and implemented over 2 years, the Ontario Biodiversity Afforestation Project (OBAP) is the largest afforestation project of its kind in Ontario developed for the sole purpose of sequestering greenhouse gas emissions and the creation of CaAfforestation Project (OBAP) is the largest afforestation project of its kind in Ontario developed for the sole purpose of sequestering greenhouse gas emissions and the creation of Caafforestation project of its kind in Ontario developed for the sole purpose of sequestering greenhouse gas emissions and the creation of Carbon Offsets.