Sentences with phrase «emitted by deforestation»

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Reducing deforestation in the tropics would significantly cut the amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere — by as much as one - fifth — research shows.

While most of the CO2 emitted by far is the result of natural phenomena — namely respiration and decomposition, most attention has centered on the three to four percent related to human activities — burning of fossil fuels, deforestation.

In fact, after 2050, Hansen's pathway (which, again, we used as the basis of our own) assumes that enhanced sinks will draw more CO2 out of the atmosphere than is emitted by fossil fuel combustion or deforestation, yielding a net budget of about negative 150 gigatonnes of CO2 over the second half of the 21st century.

From providing cleaner cookstoves to rural families and improving rice cultivation to reduce methane emissions to reducing emissions from deforestation and cutting deepening dependence on carbon - emitting coal, the solutions to global warming pursued by countries across Asia are specific to their unique needs and opportunities.

The earth's average temperature has jumped by approximately 0.8 degrees Celsius (1.4 degrees Fahrenheit) over the last century due to burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and other land - use changes that emit greenhouse gases.

It is simply ludicrous to pretend that the amounts of CO2 emitted by human activity are insignificant: the rise in atmospheric CO2 has been copiously documented, and is known to be caused by human activity: fossil fuel use, deforestation and land use change.

Indonesia, whose rapid clearing of rainforests accounts for about one - quarter of all carbon emissions from deforestation globally, has said that it will pledge to cut its emissions by 40 % from 2005 levels by 2030, if it receives international support: Currently deforestation is the source of 80 % of Indonesia's carbon emissions, and when these emissions are included in the nation's total (they aren't always, on some charts of highest emitting nations) it is in the top ten emitters — right up there with the US, China, and other industrial nations.

Reduce Deforestation by Half Reducing deforestation rates by 50 % by 2050 and then maintaining them there until 2100 would avoid emitting the equivalent of 12 % of the emissions needed to keep atmospheric CO2 concentrations Deforestation by Half Reducing deforestation rates by 50 % by 2050 and then maintaining them there until 2100 would avoid emitting the equivalent of 12 % of the emissions needed to keep atmospheric CO2 concentrations deforestation rates by 50 % by 2050 and then maintaining them there until 2100 would avoid emitting the equivalent of 12 % of the emissions needed to keep atmospheric CO2 concentrations below 450ppm.