Sentences with phrase «if emissions from deforestation»

Brazil quickly rises to the top five if emissions from deforestation are included.

Not exact matches

If the United Nations's plans for reducing emissions from degradation and deforestation are successful, and deforestation can be slowed and eventually reversed, how long will it take — and how easy will it be — to replace the rainforest we've lost?

«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.

In a recent comment article in Nature, leading climate scientists identified achieving zero emissions from land - use changes and deforestation as one of six milestones that must be met within the next three years if we are to meet the goals set out in the Paris Agreement.

That's because if tropical deforestation stopped, not only would those emissions go away, but on top of that, forests would start stowing away a significant part of the carbon from our fossil fuel emissions.

Colombia and Ecuador each has the opportunity to earn about $ 65 million if they successfully reduce emissions from deforestation over the next three years.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

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.

This brief presents shows that approaches to reducing deforestation and forest degradation and strengthening forest governance — such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD +) and Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT)-- can be effective in countering forest loss if they are jointlydeforestation and forest degradation and strengthening forest governance — such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD +) and Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT)-- can be effective in countering forest loss if they are jointlyDeforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD +) and Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT)-- can be effective in countering forest loss if they are jointly implemented.

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.

The Coalition for Rainforest Nations, an intergovernmental organisation seeking to advance Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD +), has said the 2015 Paris Agreement will only succeed if REDD + is a fundamental element of the deal.

We need to protect tropical forests from deforestation and degradation if we want to reduce emissions to the levels needed to protect the planet against the worst global warming impacts.

In comparison, the total gain estimated from the UN REDD programme if fully implemented (including slowing deforestation and wide afforestation programmes), would by 2050 according to the IPCC amount to approximately 12 - 15 % of the required emission reductions.

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 emissionIf 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 emissionif 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.

However his estimates for carbon payments for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) program could offset the lost profits from palm oil production, at prices of $ 10 - 33 per tonne of CO2, or $ 2 - 16 per tonne if forest conservation targets only cost - efficient areas.

Considering forest - threatening factors such as fires, deforestation, and the emission of greenhouse gases, the research found if the regions of the Amazon most crucial to maintaining the biome's climate are lost, large sections of the once lush rainforest may be reduced to a virtual desert.According to a report from Globo Amazônia, the study conducted by Gilvan Sampaio of National Institute of Special Research (INPE) found that the vegetation of the Amazon will be particularly impacted by rising global temperatures in the years to come, in addition to the continued threats posed by deforestation and fires.

As it stands, because of its rampant and rapid deforestation, Indonesia has become the world's third - largest carbon emitter — if you include emissions from deforestation, which isn't always done.