Sentences with phrase «focusing on carbon sequestration»

In week three of agriculture month, we are focusing on carbon sequestration on croplands.

Not exact matches

In focussing on CO2 rather than carbon, it requires the capture and sequestration of 3.664 times the gigatonnage of material for a given impact on airborne CO2 stock.

One interesting facet of the graph above is how much of the stimulus spending has been focused on carbon capture and sequestration, the process of catching CO2 as it leaves a power plant, compressing it and stashing it in the earth for safekeeping.

CDR techniques complement carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) methods that primarily focus on reducing CO2 emissions from point sources such as fossil fuel power plants.»

Because it would be a more highly commercialized undertaking focused exclusively on wasteland reclamation and carbon sequestration, it would be more costly.

Through a cross-sectoral panel, we will discuss large - scale carbon sequestration through land management, focusing on large landholders.

Speakers: Kathleen Theoharides, Assistant Secretary of Climate Change, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Massachusetts; Reed Schuler, Senior Policy Advisor to Governor Jay Inslee, Washington State Moderator: Alden Meyer, Union of Concerned Scientists The Big Sink: Large - scale Land Management to Meet Climate Goals Wednesday, November 15th 11:00 - 12:00 Fiji Dome Through a cross-sectoral panel, we will discuss large - scale carbon sequestration through land management, focusing on large landholders.

While most of our energy has been focused on carbon pricing, we've also been spearheading an effort to raise awareness around biochar and carbon sequestration.

Although the coal industry employed advertising that focused on this new of clean coal in support of current - generation plants, the Department of Energy's timeline for its Carbon Sequestration Technology Roadmap indicated that even under optimistic assumptions, carbon sequestration would remain primarily in the demonstration stage for at least the cSequestration Technology Roadmap indicated that even under optimistic assumptions, carbon sequestration would remain primarily in the demonstration stage for at least the csequestration would remain primarily in the demonstration stage for at least the coming decade.

Zaelke and his team at IGSD are continuing to focus on other fast - action climate mitigation strategies, including black carbon, other non-CO2 gases, protection of forests, bio-char sequestration, and renewable energy.

His current research focuses on global carbon management and fossil - carbon sequestration.

«We selected American Carbon Registry because of the organization's extensive knowledge of terrestrial carbon sequestration, understanding of public lands issues, and focus on accountability,» said NFF president Bill Possiel.

Attempts the gloss over the inadequacies of the carbon sequestration efficiency focus on the cost of sequestering CO2, proposing a tax on energy useage to cover that cost, and then proposing an emissions trading scheme to make the release of CO2 and the sequestering of the same commercially fluid.

To remove and reuse the carbon dioxide emissions associated with the modern world's energy appetite, experts are stressing the continued research and development of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) systems, as well as a renewed focus on carbon recycling technologies.

In particular, if focuses on the following areas: reducing methane emissions from ruminant animals by modification of plant composition; reducing nitrous oxide emissions by making the use of nitrogen more efficient both in terms of going from soil to plant and in the animal; enhancing carbon sequestration through plant breeding; reducing emissions from fertiliser production.

The 2007 IEPR focused on geologic sequestration strategies for the long - term management of carbon dioxide, but there have been encouraging technology advancements and investments since then.

Most of the discussion at the Cleantech Forum focused on the left - hand side of the McKinsey GHG abatement curve (below), which makes perfect sense: no amount of clever business model or financial product innovation will help uneconomic businesses (like many carbon sequestration businesses today) flourish.

To identify the key services and institutions that will be needed to support a successful IFCS program, this paper will examine three possible international forest carbon sequestration (IFCS) models: a fund - based approach, proposed by Brazil7; a market - based approach submitted jointly by several rainforest nations; 8 and the Forest Program for Inventories of National Carbon (PINC) approach, which focuses on rewarding a broad range of countries for increases in national carbon stocks.9 While these three approaches share the same overall goal, they are structured in different ways, and their need for support services will differ as well.

Addressing the climate crisis calls for an «all of the above» approach to reducing carbon emissions and increasing carbon sequestration, and although many of us are inclined to supporting organic farming practices, it's high time we started focusing on carbon farming practices as well.

Mitigation focuses on reducing sources of climate change, such as greenhouse gas and other human - causing emissions, through clean energy, carbon sink, and sequestration projects.