Sentences with phrase «higher emissions from deforestation»

«The revision seems to be based on higher emissions from deforestation,» says Vieweg.

Take some countries with high emissions from deforestation.

Not exact matches

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 *.

Brazil and Indonesia have high levels of deforestation and are responsible for much of the current carbon emissions from the land.

Two countries, Indonesia and Brazil, account for more than half of all deforestation and thus have the highest potential for avoiding emissions from clearing forests.

Whether it's heat - trapping methane emissions on a Connecticut dairy farm or protecting Brazilian rainforests from slash and burn deforestation, we ensure our projects meet the highest global standards.

Using carbon finance, this project aims to move large populations away from traditional practices resulting in unacceptably high GHG emissions, indoor air pollution and deforestation with its significant environmental impact.

Emissions from tropical forest degradation are higher than emissions from outright deforestation in many countries, found a study published in Carbon Balance and MaEmissions from tropical forest degradation are higher than emissions from outright deforestation in many countries, found a study published in Carbon Balance and Maemissions from outright deforestation in many countries, found a study published in Carbon Balance and Management.

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.

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.

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.

(01/30/2012) Greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil - based biodiesel are the highest among major biofuels when the effects of deforestation and peatlands degradation are considered, according to calculations by the European Commission.

Center for American ProgressWith other smaller changes in global emissions projections — including a decrease due to the recent economic downturn and reduced emissions from deforestation and loss of peat lands — the high - end abatement path so far from the Copenhagen Accord commitments leaves us only 5 gigatons short of the 44 gigaton goal by 2020 — two - thirds of the reductions needed to achieve climate safety (Figure 3).