Sentences with phrase «deforestation emissions»
"Deforestation emissions" refers to the release of harmful gases, mainly carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere due to the cutting down or removal of trees and forests. Full definition
The international community has set a goal of reducing tropical deforestation emissions.
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«It's just inexplicable that while Queensland deforestation and land clearing is spiking dramatically, the federal government is somehow recording a big drop in deforestation emissions,» Mr Walker said.
Buyer interest in offsets generated by protecting forests — thus avoiding deforestation emissions — tripled to total 24.7 million tonnes last year, with avoided deforestation projects now covering almost 20 million hectares, about the forest area of Malaysia.
If you included emissions from deforestation into national greenhouse gas emissions (which isn't always done, but probably should...) Indonesia is the world's third - highest emitter — India is if you don't take into account deforestation emissions.
Although forestry has seen much more progress as a climate change thematic area than fossil fuels, it is imperative that we regain lost momentum in reducing deforestation emissions.
At that time, the Parties to the Protocol excluded REDD from the offset mechanism because of uncertainties about the magnitude of deforestation emissions and the ability to monitor deforestation.
Given the magnitude of deforestation emissions and the low cost of abating those emissions, REDD is poised to play a very important role in the global strategy to abate GHG emissions.
Although uncertainties still linger, the technical sub-committee that focused on REDD for the two years leading up to Bali concluded not only that the magnitude of deforestation emissions was significant — approximately 20 % of global emissions — but that sufficiently cost - effective methodologies exist for measuring forest carbon and monitoring deforestation.
Because of these deforestation emissions, Indonesia and Brazil are ranked third and fourth among the top greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting countries.
In fact, Indonesia and Brazil account for 50 % of the world's deforestation emissions.
In their conservative calculations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that approximately 25 % of deforestation emissions can be abated at a cost of less than $ 20 per metric ton of carbon dioxide (tCO2).
Between 2000 and 2010 nearly half of all deforestation emissions were likely coming from just two countries: Brazil and Indonesia.