Sentences with phrase «carbon monitoring efforts»

It is the world's most common unit of land tenure and policy enforcement, yet very few countries have advanced their carbon monitoring efforts at such high resolution.

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Drones can amass vegetation data over seasons or years for monitoring habitat restoration efforts, monitoring rare and threatened plant populations, surveying agriculture, and measuring carbon storage.

As such, investing today in research and development to lower the cost of carbon removal approaches and to improve the efficiency of monitoring and verification efforts would have an enormous payoff if it led to a politically feasible «pre-pay» carbon policy.

The system will also help in addressing challenges relating to tracking carbon mitigation efforts, namely monitoring permanence (is the carbon really being sequestered), avoiding leakage (ensuring a national wide accounting system of carbon), and ensuring no additionally of emissions reduction (making sure efforts are not duplicated).

In «Make a carbon tax part of reform effort» (Concord Monitor, 9/19/11), Holtz - Eakin argues for comprehensive tax reform to include a carbon tax so that more of the «true cost of burning a fossil fuel... in the form of air pollution, a negative impact on human health, harm to the environment or climate change [is a] component in economic decisions [such as] include whether to invest in a coal - fired power plant or a wind farm.»