Sentences with phrase «drained peat forest»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.