Sentences with phrase «deforestation by planting trees»

«You can't «net out» deforestation by planting trees,» said Zarin, «because newly planted forests are far less valuable for carbon, biodiversity and forest - dependent people than standing native forests.»

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The hotel chain is celebrating its 50th anniversary by planting 10 million trees across the 34 countries in which it operates with the hope that the effort will help combat deforestation and global warming and attract more customers concerned about the state of the planet.

I've written quite a bit about whether markets in carbon credits earned by cutting, avoiding or absorbing such emissions — whether from avoided deforestation, tree planting, or leaving oil in the ground — are credible, sensible or doable.

For example, holistic pet food brand Earthborn Holistic ®'s UPCs for Trees Program allows consumers to send in their UPC barcodes to have trees planted in areas around the world that have been affected by deforestation; through the program, over 400,000 trees have been planted soTrees Program allows consumers to send in their UPC barcodes to have trees planted in areas around the world that have been affected by deforestation; through the program, over 400,000 trees have been planted sotrees planted in areas around the world that have been affected by deforestation; through the program, over 400,000 trees have been planted sotrees have been planted so far.

Together, replacing fossil fuels in electricity generation with renewable sources of energy, switching to plug - in hybrid cars, going to all - electric railways, banning deforestation, and sequestering carbon by planting trees and improving soil management will drop carbon dioxide emissions in 2020 more than 80 percent below today's levels.

While carbon accounting at the scale of individual households and their landholdings is unlikely in the near future, nations and regions need efficient methods to determine how much carbon is held and released within their borders - and this applies even more to the monitoring of projects to store carbon by means of tree plantings and deforestation reduction (e.g..

36 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Solutions Global Warming Prevention Cleanup Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Remove CO2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Shift from coal to natural gas Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Improve energy efficiency Sequester CO2 deep underground Shift to renewable energy resources Sequester CO2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Figure 20.14 Solutions: methods for slowing atmospheric warming during this century.

51 Fig. 20 - 14, p. 481 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Shift from coal to natural gas Improve energy efficiency Shift to renewable energy resources Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleanup

This increase is due to a few centuries of human activities that have released carbon stored by plants — initially in the form of trees (deforestation), and more recently also in the form of fossil plants (fossil fuels).

Specifically, the study found that planting more trees and stopping deforestation, improving agricultural land and livestock management, and protecting and restoring wetlands could collectively deliver 11.3 billion tonnes of CO2 - equivalent emissions reductions per year by 2030.

Activities in LULUCF provide a method of offsetting emissions, either by increasing the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere (i.e. by planting trees or managing forests), or by reducing emissions (i.e. by curbing deforestation and the associated burning of wood).