Sentences with phrase «environment as a carbon sink»
Sedum roofs can even last longer than conventional roofs and benefit the environment as a carbon sink, as well as by encouraging biodiversity.
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New Zealand environment minister Simon Upton described his country's approach to reducing carbon dioxide as 80 per cent carbon sinks, 20 per cent emission reduction.
It could be argued that it performs a useful function as a carbon sink — all that concrete (calcium carbonate) being kept out of the atmosphere but that would be a specious position to take, confusing the wasted resource with a benefit to the environment.
In which case, the natural environment as a whole is still a net carbon sink and has been opposing the rise.