Sentences with phrase «afforestation with»

The exact title has been modified slightly, from the above «Reduction of climate change hazards through coastal afforestation with community participation'to «Community based adaptation to climate change through coastal afforestation».

«Afforestation with non-native trees alters island soils.»

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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.

These include «reforestation, afforestation, carbon - friendly agriculture, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCs), enhanced weathering, ocean fertilisation, or direct air capture and carbon storage (DACCs),» the report adds.

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

They are either on lands that previously have not supported forests for more than 50 years (afforestation), or on lands that have supported forests for the last 50 years and where the original crop has been replaced with a different one (reforestation);

The paper concludes with a number of recommendations for afforestation.

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.

Most helpful were afforestation of degraded areas with coffee agroforestry systems and boundary tree plantings.

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.

The public money will fund projects exploring the real - world potential of «negative emissions» technologies (NETs), including soil carbon management, afforestation, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), enhanced weathering and direct capture of methane from the air.

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.

The afforestation was often unsuitable, with Sitka spruce where Scots pine had been taken and varieties that local organisms could not adapt to.

More than half of this potential is from a handful of categories — solar and wind energy, efficient passenger cars, afforestation and halting deforestation — and requires quickly reducing reliance on, and soon phasing out, coal - fired power not equipped with carbon capture and storage.

With its low opportunity costs, dryland could therefore provide a unique chance to mitigate climate change through large - scale conservation and afforestation actions.

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

BECCS: bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, DAC: direct air capture, EW: enhanced weatherization, AR: afforestation and reforestation

Mitigation scenarios that achieve the ambitious targets included in the Paris Agreement typically rely on greenhouse gas emission reductions combined with net carbon dioxide removal (CDR) from the atmosphere, mostly accomplished through large - scale application of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, and afforestation.

The term «negative emissions» designates CO2 that is removed from the atmosphere, and can refer to either techno - industrial processes (e.g., Biomass Energy with Carbon Capture and Sequestration, or BECCS) or changes in land - use practices that yield substantial enhancement of carbon sinks (e.g. afforestation and low - carbon agro-ecological techniques).

The inauguration of the Delhi Mass Rapid Transit System in 2002 and the launching of the Green Delhi afforestation campaign in 2004 to plant hundreds of thousands of native trees to absorb pollutants were both geared to reduce congestion and pollution.Recently, it also announced that it would add another 525 CNG - powered buses to the streets, with future plans to double the current fleet of CNG buses from 3,000 to 6,000.

Royal Society Ranks Geoengineering Techniques As far as the Carbon Dioxide Removal techniques with the most potential: Capturing CO2 from ambient air (preferred, but not cost - effective yet); enhanced weathering, and reforestation / afforestation were ranked highly — though the last was seen to be limited by land use conflicts.

It reiterates — also with «high confidence» — earlier calls for «an integrated approach» that includes «reducing CO2 emissions by reducing deforestation, forest degradation and forest fires; storing carbon in terrestrial systems (for example, through afforestation); and providing bioenergy feedstocks.»

The interactive has the ability to include Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) approaches, which would pull CO2 out of the atmosphere and into soils and storage via a possible set of activities, including bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, agricultural soil carbon, biochar, mineralization, afforestation, and direct air capture.

The project is set to provide synergy with the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, where afforestation is one of the critical working components» (Ministry of Environment and Forest, 43).

P.H.: A primary goal of Drawdown is to help people who feel overwhelmed by gloom - and - doom messages see that reversing global warming is bursting with possibility: walkable cities, afforestation, bamboo, high - rises built of wood, marine permaculture, multistrata agroforestry, clean cookstoves, plant - rich diet, assisting women smallholders, regenerative agriculture, supporting girls» ongoing education, smart glass, in - stream hydro, on and on.

This project was given CEO approval in December 2008, and is estimated to be completed by February 2013 with the 5.5 million USD funding coming from the Global Environment Fund (GEF) and the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF)(Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change through Coastal Afforestation).