Sentences with phrase «emissions from deforestation into»

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.

Not exact matches

«(A) the technical capacity to monitor, measure, report, and verify forest carbon fluxes for all significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation with an acceptable level of uncertainty, as determined taking into account relevant internationally accepted methodologies, such as those established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;

«(C) the reduction in emissions from deforestation has occurred before the issuance of the international offset credit and, taking into consideration relevant international standards, has been demonstrated using ground - based inventories, remote sensing technology, and other methodologies to ensure that all relevant carbon stocks are accounted;

«If by 2050 we slow deforestation by 50 per cent from current levels, with the aim of stopping deforestation when we have 50 per cent of the world's tropical forests remaining, this would save the emission of 50 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere.

Today's workshop on «Benefits Sharing and Safeguards» for policies to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD +) also included newly released recommendations for how California can bring REDD + offset credits into its statewide cap - and - trade system with environmental integrity and social equity.

Although the Bali agreement recognizes that «reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation can promote co-benefits,» Durbin and others are concerned that if REDD - generated credits move into a compliance market, the incentives for multiple benefits will be lost.

(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.

This analytical report aims to demonstrate and illustrate how integrating gender equality principles into REDD + (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries) results in improved sustainability of climate and development outcomes.

7 July 2009 If there's any place on the planet that needs to understand the relative advantages of earning money by destroying the rainforest and by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), it's the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, where soybean production has turned the state's capital, Cuiaba, into a boom town — and contributed to deforestation on a grand scale.

«(A) the technical capacity to monitor, measure, report, and verify forest carbon fluxes for all significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation with an acceptable level of uncertainty, as determined taking into account relevant internationally accepted methodologies, such as those established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;

«(C) the reduction in emissions from deforestation has occurred before the issuance of the international offset credit and, taking into consideration relevant international standards, has been demonstrated using ground - based inventories, remote sensing technology, and other methodologies to ensure that all relevant carbon stocks are accounted;

Tropical deforestation releases more than 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere every year, though in some years, like the 1997 - 1998 el Nino year when fires released some 2 billion tons of carbon from peat swamps alone in Indonesia, emissions are more than twice that.

Sensing an opportunity to capitalize on worldwide efforts to fight global warming while simultaneously protecting elements of its economy, Brazil has proposed the establishment of voluntary fund into which developed countries, companies, and other entities pay to finance a program to reduce emissions from deforestation.

The Cancun agreements outline a phased approach to strengthening efforts by developing countries to reduce emissions from deforestation and other forestry - related activities, starting with the development of national strategies and «evolving into results - based actions that should be fully measured, reported, and verified.»

The considerable proportion of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation — 17.4 percent annually — must also be taken into account.

The Copenhagen Accord recognized the need for a mechanism to funnel money into projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation while promoting conservation, enhancement of forest carbon stocks and sustainable forest management (REDD +).

16 November 2010 Governors from the US state of California, the Brazilian state of Acre, and the Mexican state of Chiapas have taken concrete steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) by creating a working group designed to help Acre and Chiapas generate REDD credits that can be recognized by California's Air Resources Board (ARB) and sold as offsets to industrial emitters in California once the state's mandatory cap on greenhouse gas emissions goes into effect at the end of next year.

The Environment Ministry wants to incorporate REDD into a broader conservation strategy that will cover 54 million of Peru's estimated 64 million hectares of rainforest, with a final goal of eliminating all emissions from deforestation and degradation from the protected areas.

It's only when deforestation and other land use changes made a net shift of carbon in the short term carbon cycle from plants back into the atmosphere, that humans began to make a net positive return of CO2 into the atmosphere (although deforestation is essentially reversible in principle), and it's very true to point out that industrial scale animal husbandry with its high cost in fossil - fuel - derived energy does mean that what might otherwise be a relatively closed system of cycling CO2 from the atmosphere through plants and then animals and back to the atmosphere, does become net positive with respect to CO2 emissions.

The study highlights the need for global efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (as in the initiative known as REDD +) to take into account carbon emissions lost through changing land - use practices and the challenges of reforesting and restoring degraded tropical peatlands.