Sentences with phrase «large emissions from deforestation»

There are large emissions from deforestation and other land - use change activities in the tropics; these have been estimated in IPCC (2007a) for the 1990s to have been 5.9 GtCO2 - eq, with a large uncertainty range of 1.8 — 9.9 GtCO2 - eq (Denman et al., 2007).

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The destruction of tropical forests around the world is one of the largest sources of emissions contributing to climate change, and deforestation rates in Peru doubled in 2012 from the previous year, accounting for nearly half its annual greenhouse gas emissions.

Further, emissions from deforestation account for 20 % of global carbon emissions, and there is concern that there would never be enough REDD projects to have a meaningful impact on the large magnitude of emissions from deforestation.

Those payments, however, could be aggregated to fund larger - scale education campaigns, with the payments based in part of estimated emission - reductions from farms or even from avoided deforestation.

Large - scale defences are now being marshalled by governments, NGOs, scientists and investors, chief among them an international endeavour known as Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, or REDD.

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.

Deforestation a Much Larger Issue Than Fossil Fuels in Many Places And it would be even more poignant had he been speaking about production of palm oil in Indonesia and Malaysia, where due to greenhouse gas emissions associated with land conversion from rainforest to plantations, the emissions from the fuel made from these crops can be nearly 10 times as much as from conventional fossil fuels.

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.