Sentences with phrase «on afforestation»

Quick note on afforestation in California: CA used the irrigation provided by its water project to sustain large groves of fruit and nut trees (whose product had large commercial value); subsequently, many of these trees were sacrificed to enhance the natural environment of the Delta Snail Darter (which has no commercial value), which has resulted in large stands of dead or moribund trees.

al. (2011) estimate the total 21st century biosequestration potential at 100 GtC, which is equivalent to about 370 Gt CO2, based entirely on afforestation and reforestation.

For more information and latest developments on afforestation and reforestation project activities under the CDM, please refer to the following link: << http://cdm.unfccc.int/index.html >>.

Quick note on afforestation in California: CA used the irrigation provided by its water project to sustain large groves of fruit and nut trees (whose product had large commercial value); subsequently, many of these trees were sacrificed to enhance the natural environment of the Delta Snail Darter (which has no commercial value), which has resulted in large stands of dead or moribund trees.

Not exact matches

In his remarks, the Commissioner for Natural Resources, Mr. Rasheed Badmus, disclosed that the government had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Wewood Limited to plant the seedlings on 10,000 hectares of land while West African Plantation Limited would plant the remaining portion of the afforestation project.

Forest managers and aquatic biologists can use the study's data on specific streams for restoration planning and to assess the need for intervention (liming, riparian afforestation, native fish reintroduction) in stream reaches that are potentially vulnerable to warming, acidification, or both.

Most of the scientists you mentioned (Hansen, Caldeira, Sachs) have their names on papers supporting at least afforestation, but often more.

This seems highly unwise, and, as I discussed in a piece on HuffPost about it, «Methane in the Twilight Zone, Episode 2,» * the more that you're planning on doing anything about climate change — i.e., lowering GHG emissions, pulling carbon out of the system through biochar, afforestation, etc — the less sense it makes.

The report, however, relies overwhelmingly on bio-CCS and afforestation to achieve negative emissions in its scenarios that avoid this dangerous warming.

Three of them — on solar energy, afforestation and energy efficiency — seek to slow down the growth of India's emissions.

They are either on lands that previously have not supported forests for more than 50 years (afforestation), or on lands that have supported forests for the last 50 years and where the original crop has been replaced with a different one (reforestation);

The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its twentieth session, requested its Chair, with the assistance of the secretariat and on the basis of submissions by Parties contained in documents FCCC / SBSTA / 2004 / MISC.3 and FCCC / SBSTA / 2004 / MISC.4, and of inputs by Parties during the twentieth session of the SBSTA, to prepare a draft text for a decision on simplified modalities and procedures for small - scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the clean development mechanism and on measures to facilitate the implementation of these project activities, for consideration by the SBSTA at its twenty - first session.

It raises serious concerns about the effectiveness of afforestation and reforestation projects under the CDM and the impacts they have on local communities.

Simplified Baseline and Monitoring Methodology for Small Scale CDM Afforestation and Reforestation on Wetlands

This is called afforestation, and as I mentioned in the piece, it has already happened on a large scale in the eastern United States, the former Soviet Union, China and some other areas.

On the basis of submissions by Parties contained in documents FCCC / SBSTA / 2004 / MISC.3 and FCCC / SBSTA / 2004 / MISC.4, and of inputs by Parties during the SBSTA, a draft text for a decision on simplified modalities and procedures for small - scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the CDM and on measures to facilitate the implementation of these project activities was prepareOn the basis of submissions by Parties contained in documents FCCC / SBSTA / 2004 / MISC.3 and FCCC / SBSTA / 2004 / MISC.4, and of inputs by Parties during the SBSTA, a draft text for a decision on simplified modalities and procedures for small - scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the CDM and on measures to facilitate the implementation of these project activities was prepareon simplified modalities and procedures for small - scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the CDM and on measures to facilitate the implementation of these project activities was prepareon measures to facilitate the implementation of these project activities was prepared.

COP 9 adopted a decision on «Modalities and procedures for afforestation and reforestation activities under the CDM» (19 / CP.9).

COP 10 adopted a decision on simplified modalities and procedures for small - scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the CDM and measures to facilitate their implementation (Decision 14 / CP.10) which included a draft COP / MOP decision on this matter.

SBSTA 20 (FCCC / SBSTA / 2004 / 6, paragraphs 29 — 33) took note of a technical paper prepared by the secretariat (FCCC / TP / 2004 / 2) on simplified modalities and procedures for small - scale afforestation and reforestation projects under the CDM.

SBSTA 21 (FCCC / SBSTA / 2004 / 13, paragraphs 39 — 41) continued to consider this issue, including a proposal for a draft decision on simplified modalities and procedures for small - scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the clean development mechanism and measures to facilitate their implementation (FCCC / SBSTA / 2004 / INF.12) and forwarded a draft decision on this matter for adoption at COP 10.

A growing minority, however, favored an A / R (Afforestation / Reforestation) strategy, which would let them earn carbon credits by planting trees on land that hadn't been forest for a long time — if ever.

Moreover, CDR techniques can affect temperatures via SRM mechanisms too: afforestation — at least in higher latitudes — reduces albedo, producing offsetting warming, while OIF releases dimethyl sulphides which could have a significant impact on temperatures by reflecting incoming sunlight (analogous to, if more short - lived, than the effect of sulphates in the stratosphere).

A potential weakness of CRFS in addressing the issue of around 170 ppm of airborne and marine (re-emitted) CO2 is the lead - time for native coppice afforestation of non-farmland for charcoal - feedstock, plus the oceans» thermal inertia timelag on the carbon sequestration's cooling effect.

Times News Network: Government may on Thursday clear Rs 13,000 crore fund for its much awaited «Green India Mission» which aims at enhancing carbon sinks through large scale afforestation across the country.

On a global scale, the cooling effect of carbon sequestration dominates and, in this work, afforestation of all the climatically viable cropland gave a global temperature reduction of 0.45 oC by the end of this century.

These include the effects that trees have on local atmospheric chemistry and potentially the clouds above them; until these are fully understood it is somewhat difficult to attribute a «temperature benefit» of a specific magnitude to a given afforestation scenario.

Further considerations on economic co-benefits are related to the access to carbon payments either within or outside the UNFCCC agreements and new income opportunities especially in developing countries (particularly for labour ‐ intensive mitigation options such as afforestation).

Drawdown's yield model calculates total annual global supply of crops and livestock products based on their area of adoption in each of the three scenarios, and global yield impacts of each solution (including both gains due to increased productivity per hectare and losses due to reduction of productive area due to adoption of non-agricultural solutions, e.g., loss of grazing area due to afforestation of grasslands).

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates an impact of 4.0 gigatons of carbon dioxide - equivalent per year by 2030 from afforestation, given a carbon dioxide price of US$ 100 per ton (Metz, 2007).

Afforestation Project in the South of Quebec: This project was created in 2014 to plant on 15 abandoned lands and sequesters a portion of Southern Quebec's atmospheric carbon for at least 50 years.

More than half of this potential is from a handful of categories — solar and wind energy, efficient passenger cars, afforestation and halting deforestation — and requires quickly reducing reliance on, and soon phasing out, coal - fired power not equipped with carbon capture and storage.

This technical document provides guidance on how to formulate new baseline and monitoring methodologies for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Afforestation and Reforestation (A / R) projects.

Mitigation scenarios that achieve the ambitious targets included in the Paris Agreement typically rely on greenhouse gas emission reductions combined with net carbon dioxide removal (CDR) from the atmosphere, mostly accomplished through large - scale application of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, and afforestation.

Before the act was passed, BK Singh, director of the state - run Afforestation and Eco-Development Board, told Thomson Reuters Foundation that, once it became law, the government and its rural machinery would concentrate on putting it into practice, leaving little money for anything else until after next year's elections.

P.H.: A primary goal of Drawdown is to help people who feel overwhelmed by gloom - and - doom messages see that reversing global warming is bursting with possibility: walkable cities, afforestation, bamboo, high - rises built of wood, marine permaculture, multistrata agroforestry, clean cookstoves, plant - rich diet, assisting women smallholders, regenerative agriculture, supporting girls» ongoing education, smart glass, in - stream hydro, on and on.