So far, climate change policies on the tropics have effectively been focusing on reducing
carbon emissions from deforestation only, not accounting for emissions coming from forest degradation.
It aims to dramatically cut
CO2 emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries by creating an incentive mechanism that will pay developing countries to manage standing forest.
More than ever, governments, companies and civil society organizations are committing to ambitious goals to protect the world's remaining forests and
combat emissions from deforestation.
The paper concludes that, in order to facilitate efficient negotiations and implementation, as well as streamlined future reporting, Parties to UNFCCC might consider, ex ante, a comprehensive set of definitions for the negotiations on reducing
emissions from deforestation in developing countries.
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Experts estimate that emissions from the degradation of mangroves can be as high as 10 % of total
emissions from deforestation globally, even though mangroves account for only 0.7 % of tropical forest area *.
In accordance with California's Global Warming Solutions Act's (AB32) guidance, the ROW recommends that California allow states or countries that reduce their
total emissions from deforestation below an historical average to generate compliance credit in California.
Companies that employ this strategy may benefit from payments under REDD, a proposed climate change mitigation mechanism that would pay developing countries for
avoiding emissions from deforestation.
Moutinho started his career studying ants but has spent most of his time in recent years looking at ways to use carbon markets to stem
emissions from deforestation while protecting biodiversity and the rights of indigenous people.
Despite this, many countries are sill reducing
emissions from deforestation through schemes such as REDD +, which sees money channeled to developing countries to keep their forests standing.
The findings will help scientists disentangle inputs and outputs in places like the Amazon rainforest, where there are both
big emissions from deforestation and big sinks from photosynthesis.
In a major decision that the ethanol industry called «workable,» the Obama Administration ruled that carbon
emissions from deforestation abroad should count in determining the carbon footprint of biofuels.
(05/14/2012) Carbon
emissions from deforestation vary greatly depending on whether timber stocks are turned into finished wood products, converted into bioenergy feedstocks, or burned outright, reports a new study published in Nature Climate Change.
To make matters even worse, carbon
emissions from deforestation compound the problem of climate change — every year as much as one fifth of the global carbon emissions may come from cut down trees, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Indonesia's president signs a two - year moratorium on new logging concessions in the island nation's still - prolific virgin forests, part of a $ 1 billion climate change deal with Norway intended to reduce carbon
dioxide emissions from deforestation.
When taking a birds - eye view of the three major tropical rainforests in the world, Southeast Asia's rainforests, and those found in Indonesia in particular, are ground zero for biodiversity loss, exploitation of forest peoples, and
climate emissions from deforestation.
However, while the U.N. talks have delivered some encouraging progress in recent years on issues such as
limiting emissions from deforestation, deadlock remains over how countries ultimately will share responsibility for emissions reductions.
This proposal received wide support from Parties and there was general agreement as to the importance of the issue related to the
huge emissions from deforestation, particularly in developing countries, albeit a complex one.
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.
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There are
large emissions from deforestation and other land - use change activities in the tropics; these have been estimated in IPCC (2007a) for the 1990s to have been 5.9 GtCO2 - eq, with a large uncertainty range of 1.8 — 9.9 GtCO2 - eq (Denman et al., 2007).
The environmental group Greenpeace says it has the solution: An initiative called Forests for Climate that would aim to raise as much as $ 15 billion per year to
cut emissions from deforestation in half.