Sentences with phrase «national greenhouse gas emissions come»

In Indonesia, 60 percent of national greenhouse gas emissions come from land - use change, in part, fuelled by the growing demand for palm oil and agricultural crops.

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The move came after Canada's National Energy Board announced a broader review of the Energy East project, including its impact on upstream and downstream greenhouse gas emissions.

Controlling greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades could substantially reduce the consequences of carbon releases from thawing permafrost during the next 300 years, according to a new paper published this week in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.

In sum, he said that China's national interests will always come first and, in any move toward binding steps for reducing global emissions of greenhouse gases, rich countries must go first.

With the developing world now generating half the planet's greenhouse gas emissions, one of the thorniest challenges facing climate change negotiators in Copenhagen will be apportioning national reduction targets in coming decades.

This technical document presents the latest estimates of the emissions gap in 2020 and provides plentiful information, including about current (2010) and projected (2020) levels of global greenhouse gas emissions, both in the absence of additional policies and consistent with national pledge implementation; the implications of starting decided emission reductions now or in the coming decades; agricultural development policies that can help increase yields, reduce fertilizer usage and bring about other benefits, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases; and, international cooperative initiatives that, while potentially overlapping with pledges, can complement them and help bridge the emissions gap.

The INCAS system will expand in the coming months, to produce national level estimates of greenhouse gas emissions and removals from all of Indonesia's forest and peat lands.

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.