Sentences with phrase «credit as carbon sinks»

Meanwhile, the forestry industry has argued that their monoculture plantations in Asia, Africa, and South America deserve credit as carbon sinks, but the data show that these biological deserts are actually spewing out carbon dioxide.

Meanwhile, the forestry industry has argued that their monoculture plantations in Asia, Africa, and South America deserve credit as carbon sinks, but the data show that these biological deserts are actually spewing out carbon dioxide.

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An indiscriminate approach to crediting carbon sinks, such as this, could prove to be more disastrous to forest management than the ham - fisted accounting of Kyoto that first fed the rise of woody bioenergy.