Sentences with phrase «land based carbon»

At this point we have absolutely zero evidence that any public policies have the capacity to produce a net gain of land based carbon biomass.

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Comprised of carbon and hydrogen, in closed growing environments, like on a spacecraft or in a terrestrial greenhouse or a land - base perishable cooler, ethylene builds up rapidly and causes plants to mature too quickly.

The forests, which form the largest part of this land - based cover, are referred to as carbon sinks.

The study estimated impacts on forest carbon accumulation in the region between 2007 and 2012, and projected potential changes out to 2017 based on forest growth and land use change scenarios.

«Land - based carbon offsets: False hope?

This final number lies below earlier estimates from atmospheric tests and above land - based figures, which did not take into account such carbon sinks as woody debris, forest litter and soil.

Soils are the largest land - based reservoir of organic carbon on the planet, storing around 1,500 billion metric tons of organic carbon — about twice the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.

«Extensive deforestation in Indonesia is a cause for global concern as it contributes substantially to land - based global carbon emissions and potentially high rates of biodiversity loss,» explained Asst Prof Carrasco.

At present, land - based ecosystems absorb around one quarter of all human - made carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere.

It includes 42 recommendations for state action, including calls for stronger regulation of carbon emissions and other land - based pollutants that contribute to acidification.

The most extensive land - based study of the Amazon to date reveals it is losing its capacity to absorb carbon from the atmosphere.

A new study by a team of IMAS and Canadian scientists has found that catching most types of fish produces far less carbon per kilo of protein than land - based alternatives like beef or lamb.

ref Specifically, reducing land - based sources of pollution (nutrient runoff and sedimentation) has been identified as an important approach to address acidification in coastal waters because nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen and land - based carbon inputs can increase the acidity of coastal and oceanic waters.

These land - based life forms emit carbon dioxide and methane, which help create the earth's climate.

Constraining coral reef metabolism and carbon chemistry dynamics are fundamental for understanding and predicting reef vulnerability to rising coastal CO2 concentrations and decreasing seawater pH. However, few studies exist along reefs occupying densely inhabited shorelines with known input from land - based sources of pollution.

Autocar UK understands the electric SUV will be based on the Jaguar Land Rover EV platform unveiled a year ago at a low - carbon vehicle event in Bedfordshire.

... Based on these results, further warming and drying of tropical forests is expected to result in less uptake and more release of carbon on land, unfortunately amplifying the effect of fossil fuel emissions warming the climate.

The key factors determining carbon emissions for corn - based ethanol are (1) whether coal or natural gas is used to power the ethanol plant, (2) whether distillers grains are dried or sold wet, and (3) whether expansion of corn acreage comes mainly from reduced acreage of lower - value crops or if idled land is brought into production.

By paying for verifiable sequestration based on measured quantities of soil carbon, the offset system will not only be transparent in its ability to reduce carbon but it will also create an incentive for innovation, giving farmers the flexibility to utilize their knowledge and the resources of their land to sequester carbon efficiently and effectively.

This in turn gradually causes carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to be removed and stored as land - based permafrost carbon or as deep - ocean CO2.

Successes 1) Storage of carbon dioxide captured from land based industrial sources in geological formations under the sea bed is now accepted (Nov. 2006) by the London Convention and its Protocol.

I looked at the numbers based on IPCC tables for land types by area and carbon storage and plant vs soil carbon, and I conclude maybe 60 GtC could be sequestered in plant and maybe about 60 GtC in soil after some time of decades or longer.

During the Pleistocene - Holocene transition, one possible explanation to the amplification of the ghg - effect could have been the release of South Siberian European and North American (then) permafrost land - based carbon.

These place - based REDD projects preserve the carbon stocks on a parcel of land that otherwise would be deforested.

This is the new face of the old threat — that new land - based mitigation techniques, such as biochar, bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and other types of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) geoengineering approaches, as well as old «solutions» like biofuels, will compete with the use of land to feed people.

RCP4.5 is based on the MiniCAM Level 2 stabilization scenario reported in Clarke et al. (2007) with additional detail on the non-CO2 and pollution control assumptions documented by Smith and Wigley (2006), and incorporating updated land use modeling and terrestrial carbon emissions pricing assumptions as reported in Wise et al. (2009a, b).

A further step would be to develop a product - based approach that accounts for typical carbon sequestration during the growing phase, carbon emissions from processing, and implicit emissions from land use changes as well as combustion emissions for each biofuel and biomass type.

The Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) is a nonprofit organization and a front group for the energy industry that opposes political efforts to regulate carbon standards while advancing deep water and land - based drilling for oil and methane gas.

Tax approximate CO2 emissions from final combustion of biofuels and biomass based strictly on product type without attempting to account for carbon sequestered during growth cycles or emitted during harvesting, distillation or other chemical processing or land - use impacts.

For example, a 2012 study headed by Michael Wang of the Argonne National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy projected that the corn - based ethanol found at practically all U.S. fuel pumps would cut carbon emissions by around 34 percent in 2015 (Table 7), even when considering changes in land use.

Indeed the NSIDC / NOAA study I wrote about in February on methane release by the land - based permafrost itself doesn't even incorporate the carbon released by the permafrost carbon feedback into its warming model!

The global warming theory has been based all along on the idea that the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans would absorb much of the greenhouse warming caused by a rise in man - made carbon dioxide, then they would let off that heat and warm the atmosphere and the land.

Based on evidence from Earth's history, we suggest here that the relevant form of climate sensitivity in the Anthropocene (e.g. from which to base future greenhouse gas (GHG) stabilization targets) is the Earth system sensitivity including fast feedbacks from changes in water vapour, natural aerosols, clouds and sea ice, slower surface albedo feedbacks from changes in continental ice sheets and vegetation, and climate — GHG feedbacks from changes in natural (land and ocean) carbon sinks.

Beyond REDD, there are scores of practices designed to incentivize good land stewardship — from carbon - based payments for no - till farming to watershed payments for reduced runoff to mitigation banking that supports habitat protection and restoration.

12 November 2013 WARSAW Poland India has a Constitution; Germany has a Grundgesetz; and the Terrestrial Carbon Accounting world has its Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land - Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF)-- a 5,000 - page compendium of science - based rules for measuring, monitoring, and accounting for the carbon captured in forests, farms, and prairies.

Press Release 13 - 139 Seasonal carbon dioxide range expanding as more is added to Earth's atmosphere Northern Hemisphere land - based ecosystems «taking deeper breaths,» scientists find Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rise and fall each year as plants, through photosynthesis and respiration, take up the gas in spring and summer, and release it in fall...

Under the PES agreement, their tree - based land use systems sequestered carbon that was sold as credits on the Markit Registry for managing global carbon credits.

A massive fireplug of carbon stored in thawing (and burning) land - based permafrost in the Northern Hemisphere at a shallow depth of zero to 3 meters.

With a predictable carbon price in place, whose ultimate price is based on performance, the economy will create a market sector that successfully moves pollution emissions from public property (air and ocean) to private property (land) where all the participants are consciously, actively, and willingly engaged.

«The renewables revolution offers our farmers and land - based industries the opportunity to cut energy costs, generate new income and contribute to our low carbon future.

While the CCB Standards were developed specifically for land - based carbon projects and the majority of transacted CCB tonnes in 2013 were sourced from avoided deforestation (REDD), the transfer of management could open the possibility for CCB to be applied to new project types.

The climate science is clear: sequestering carbon in land - based ecosystems, such as forests, does not «neutralize» emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

Houghton's method of reconstructing Land - Use Based Net Flux of Carbon appears arbitrary and susceptible to bias; i.e. «Rates of land - use change, including clearing for agriculture and harvest of wood, were reconstructed from statistical and historic documents for 9 world regions and used, along with the per ha [hectare] changes in vegetation and soil that result from land management, to calculate the annual flux of carbon between land and atmosphere.&raLand - Use Based Net Flux of Carbon appears arbitrary and susceptible to bias; i.e. «Rates of land - use change, including clearing for agriculture and harvest of wood, were reconstructed from statistical and historic documents for 9 world regions and used, along with the per ha [hectare] changes in vegetation and soil that result from land management, to calculate the annual flux of carbon between land and atmosphere.&raland - use change, including clearing for agriculture and harvest of wood, were reconstructed from statistical and historic documents for 9 world regions and used, along with the per ha [hectare] changes in vegetation and soil that result from land management, to calculate the annual flux of carbon between land and atmosphere.&raland management, to calculate the annual flux of carbon between land and atmosphere.&raland and atmosphere.»

So I think, around the carbon budgets, a question that I would like to see more clarity on is whether land - based vegetation will continue to absorb carbon dioxide at the rate it currently is, or whether in a future climate, that drawdown of carbon by plants on land will change.

Algae - derived organic matter has been found to fuel higher rates of CH4 production than land - based «terrestrial» carbon (West et al. 2012), and may even stimulate the enhanced incorporation of recalcitrant terrestrial carbon into bacterial biomass (i.e., priming effect; Guillemette et al. 2015).

He argued that public lands and waters offer the easiest target for accelerating the movement away from a carbon - based economy.

Forward, process - based models are used to study both carbon and land - surface climate.

COTAP enables you, through the accountable and market - based tool of carbon offsets, to compensate farmers in least developed countries for planting and maintaining trees on under - utilized portions of their land which will result in the long - term sequestration of carbon dioxide.

Right now, the only possibility of large - scale removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is through plant photosynthesis and related land - based carbon sequestration activities.

A single acre filters millions of gallons of ocean water every day, creates homes for hundreds of wild marine and bird species and absorbs the overabundance of nitrogen and carbon (with kelp sequestering 5x more carbon than land based - plants) that are killing billions of organisms.