Sentences with phrase «drained peat»

The study included carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels and producing chemicals and cement but excluded emissions from activities like deforestation and logging, forest and peat fires, the decay of biomass after burning and decomposition of organic carbon in drained peat soils.

In Southeast Asia, one fourth of all oil - palm plantations are located on drained peat lands.

Similarly CIFOR research suggests that the rewetting of drained peat — a measure to prevent carbon emissions released from forest fires and peat degradation - could increase levels of methane from the soil.

Essential incentives to reduce ongoing emissions from drained peat forest soils, and safeguards to prevent the conversion of not only forests but also of other natural ecosystems to plantations have not yet been addressed.

As part of this, APP will suspend the excavation of canals that are typically used to drain peat swamps.

Not exact matches

But changes in land use — draining the water to plant acres of crops that demand drier soil, a common practice in tropical regions, or building a road through an area — can dry out the peat.

To make room for oil palm plantations and other crops, companies will raze existing trees (the source of future peat) and drain the water to dry out the soil.

Compared with areas that hadn't been drained, the areas that had been drained lost almost 500 more years» worth of accumulated peat, she says.

In deforested areas, layers of peat — sometimes dozens of meters deep — become flammable as they dry out, which is sometimes exacerbated by deliberate draining in order to make them more suitable for palm oil and timber plantations.

The researchers also found that certification did not affect fire occurrence in these plantations or the amount of carbon - rich peat swamp forests cleared and drained for oil palm.

On the other hand CH4 is produced mostly indirectly, for example, in growing rice crops or in draining out water for peat lands.

In the early 1900's Soviet engineers drained swamps to supply peat for electrical power stations.

This pledge is significant because merely draining peatlands is a major source of carbon emissions from peat oxidation as well as ancient carbon carried away as the water table drops.

But when peat forests are drained and burned for oil palm and other agricultural plantations, they release massive amounts of greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere.

«One unexpected research result comes from one of the new studies conducted in a drained oil palm plantation on peat in Indonesia,» says Hergoualc» h.

The coverage of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines on wetlands was restricted to peatlands drained and managed for peat extraction, conversion to flooded lands, and limited guidance for drained organic soils.

In Indonesia, for example, where oil palm covers approximately 10.5 million hectares of land, companies have vowed to halt deforestation and the draining of peat swamps, thereby certifying their products as not having contributed to the destruction of forests or increased greenhouse gas emissions.

It's not a avery large offset to human emissions and I think there bigger concern is that all of this very large reservoir of lake moss peat, this lake carbon, is stored in permafrost since the sediments refreeze when they drain.»

There are many underlying causes for these fires, including the draining of swampy peat soils to make way for palm oil and pulpwood plantations and the use of illegal slash - and - burn practices by farmers

Palm swamps, mangroves and peat bogs throughout the tropics are disappearing rapidly as they are drained for fish farming, agriculture and infrastructure development.

Peat swamp in Malaysian Borneo Long considered an unproductive hindrance to growth and development, peat swamp forests in Southeast Asia have been systematically cleared, drained and burned away to make...

Because creating the plantations often means burning the tropical forest and draining the underlying peat soils, there's an initial large release of stored carbon.

But this is the really short version in regards to climate change: When you chop down the forests grown on peat and drain the land to depths sufficient for oil palm cultivation, the soil starts oxidizing and releasing massive amounts of CO2.

When peat swamps are drained, converted, and burned, large quantities of stored carbon are released into the atmosphere.

Burning is the source of about 70 percent of emissions from peatlands, but merely draining peatlands also contributes to global warming — upon exposure to air, peat rapidly oxidizes, decomposes, and releases carbon dioxide.

It has brought all sorts of disasters including destruction of rainforest, draining of peat bogs, eviction of subsistence farmers from their land etc etc..

The draining of carbon - rich peat swamps, rendering them highly combustible, also serves to accelerate the spread of fires and intensifies the burning and haze.