A paper published in Environmental Research Letters assessed climate
impacts of deforestation beyond releasing carbon dioxide, including methane and nitrous oxide emissions.
Not exact matches
The bad news
beyond the
impacts on people, plants and animals
of that kind
of deforestation: There isn't that much land available.
Looking forward, things to watch include: the
impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence
of payments for ecosystem services
beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side
of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its
deforestation reduction targets.
Now the researchers plan to apply the methodology to other nations to build up a global evidence base for protected area effectiveness, to «move
beyond looking at protected areas as a monolithic concept and clarify how different kinds
of protected areas, and different ways
of locating them in the landscape, affect
deforestation and local human welfare», and to measure the
impacts of protected areas on humans that live in neighbouring communities, an issue that is «subject to contentious international debate but for which there is little credible evidence to support the opposing views».