Sentences with phrase «crop absorbs carbon»

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Some of the nitrogen the crops do not absorb is converted into nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 310 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

To get an idea of how the group's projects work, explore the details of the effort in Sofala, Mozambique, where farmers get a small payment for the carbon - absorbing value of adding a tree crop, cashews, to their plantings.

Again, the country is planning to use credits based on carbon absorbed by its crop forests and that roughly halves the overshoot (to 15 per cent).

Here we report measurements of ecosystem carbon dioxide fluxes, remotely sensed radiation absorbed by plants, and country - level crop yields taken during the European heatwave in 2003.

But New Zealand plans to settle up using credits issued for the carbon absorbed by pre-existing crop forests.

[The conventional reasoning] double counts the carbon absorbed by plants when the bioenergy crops are grown on land already used for crop production or already growing other plants because the bioenergy does not necessarily result in additional carbon absorption.