Sentences with phrase «on carbon sequestration in»

EFFECT OF NATURAL IRON FERTILIZATION ON CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN THE SOUTHERN OCEAN Nature, Vol 446 26 April 2007 doi: 10.1038 / nature05700 The efficiency of fertilization, defined as the ratio of the carbon export to the amount of iron supplied, was at least ten times higher than previous estimates from short - term blooms induced by iron - addition experiments.

Blain, S. Effect of natural iron fertilization on carbon sequestration in the Southern Ocean.

«Attended a course at La Selva Biological Station on carbon sequestration in tropical forests and the role of tropical forests in combating climate change;»

Scientists are now exploring the influence of different land management methods such as overgrazing, labour and alternative farming systems like agroforestry on carbon sequestration in Brazilian Amazon soils.

Not exact matches

Sustainable coffee agrosystems frequently rely on fallen leaves from their shade trees as well as the application of coffee skins and other organic matter for soil moisture retention and fertilization, providing another means in which these farms can contribute to carbon sequestration.

In my post «Coffee farms and carbon sequestration,» I discussed the potential of carbon credits in helping coffee farmers earn extra income, and provided some statistics and references on carbon sequestration on coffee farms in and other tropical agroforestry systemIn my post «Coffee farms and carbon sequestration,» I discussed the potential of carbon credits in helping coffee farmers earn extra income, and provided some statistics and references on carbon sequestration on coffee farms in and other tropical agroforestry systemin helping coffee farmers earn extra income, and provided some statistics and references on carbon sequestration on coffee farms in and other tropical agroforestry systemin and other tropical agroforestry systems.

Key topics discussed are: • Climate change impact on food production • Options for adaptation to a new climate • Options for mitigation in response to key drivers; e.g. water use efficiency and / or carbon sequestration.

Mass Audubon supports land protection, carbon sequestration, and sea turtle tagging programs on Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica.

Nevertheless, «this is the first time in the world carbon capture has been carried on and sequestration has been part of it,» West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller notes.

Conservation International, a nonprofit that advises developing countries on carbon sequestration projects and has a strong presence in Guyana, has started to collaborate with Bicknell.

These human - made materials were introduced in the 1990s, and researchers around the world are working on ways to use them as molecular sponges for applications such as hydrogen storage, carbon sequestration, or photovoltaics.

Based on its research, EPRI concludes that capture and sequestration of carbon emissions from coal plants would be technically feasible by 2020, and it assumes that new regulations would be in place to support that strategy.

When combined with a separate, related sequestration project starting this fall on the same corn processing plant, the initiative will pump more industrially captured carbon dioxide underneath the earth for permanent storage in deep saline rock reservoirs than ever has been attempted in the United States.

«The break - even carbon tariff we calculated, which is at the range of $ 105 - 129 per ton of carbon dioxide, depending on the possible carbon tax to be imposed by these two regions in the near term, is close to the reported CO2 capture and sequestration cost,» You said.

Even modest increases in the amount of land being reforested would have a multiplicative impact on nationwide carbon sequestration.»

The trees also have other ecosystem functions, in the form of carbon sequestration and effects on nutrient cycling and retention.

If we embark on a path that is equivalent to setting emissions to zero now (say by having a period of negative emissions in the 2035 to 2050 time frame), and call the sequestration we accomplish mitigation then mitigation can arrest climate change, make adaptation unneeded and bring us to a safe concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as Hansen has pointed out.

In the near future, these researchers plan to develop methods to screen soils for carbon sequestration potential based on their microbial communities.

Update: On July 14, 2011, American Electric Power announced it would table plans to build a carbon capture and sequestration project at its Mountaineer Plant in West Virginia, which is mentioned in this article.

In Costa Rica, Brenes - Mora has seized on the connection between large herbivores and carbon sequestration as a way to highlight the importance of preserving the tapirs, under threat from habitat loss as pineapple plantations expand and from traffic on the Pan-American Highway.

In focussing on CO2 rather than carbon, it requires the capture and sequestration of 3.664 times the gigatonnage of material for a given impact on airborne CO2 stock.

At any rate, in my personal view, we should not prescribe exactly what needs to be done but should instead implement flexible schemes like Kyoto or the McCain - Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act that allow trading of emissions credits, credits for carbon sequestration (provided it can truly be shown to work) and so on.

Karl Schroeder: If there is any life on Earth in 100 years, I foresee either an ecological catastrophe, with the majority of species extinct, the oceans stagnant, the arctic and Antarctic desolate and lifeless, and billions of people living in complete ignorance of how things could be, in massive urban centres; or, a world in which climate change was solved early and completely through innovations in power generation and carbon sequestration, where agriculture has gone to vertical farming and North America has largely been rewilded back to forest and open prairie, and where extinct species are regularly recreated by genetic engineering and reintroduced.

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.

2006 — Effect of land use conversion on soil organic carbon sequestration in the loess hilly area, loess plateau of China https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11284-006-0065-1

James @ 152: Skeptical Science had a series on the carbon balance in the Arctic going forward, with special emphasis on permafrost; iirc, the out gassing from melting tundra overwhelms the potential new carbon sequestration.

Both grassland restoration and reforestation have good arguments in their favor besides whatever effect they might have on carbon sequestration.

One interesting facet of the graph above is how much of the stimulus spending has been focused on carbon capture and sequestration, the process of catching CO2 as it leaves a power plant, compressing it and stashing it in the earth for safekeeping.

The increase in fires and summer drought brought on by climate change is increasingly altering the type of tree species and the carbon sequestration of forest landscapes, particularly in the Klamath region of the United States.

POWER's Editor Interviewed About Carbon Capture and Sequestration In November 2015, POWER Editor Gail Reitenbach gave a luncheon keynote presentation at the Carbon Management Technology Conference on SaskPower's Boundary Dam 3 carbon capture and sequestration (Sequestration In November 2015, POWER Editor Gail Reitenbach gave a luncheon keynote presentation at the Carbon Management Technology Conference on SaskPower's Boundary Dam 3 carbon capture and sequestration (sequestration (CCS) project.

«Recommendation 2: The Committee recommends research and development investment to improve methods of carbon dioxide removal and disposal at scales that would have a global impact on reducing greenhouse warming, in particular to minimize energy and materials consumption, identify and quantify risks, lower costs, and develop reliable sequestration and monitoring.»

«We develop new technologies and reduce the costs of renewables, new nuclear, environmental protection in natural gas production, carbon capture and sequestration, really across the board,» Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said in a May teleconference, describing his agency's actions on climate change.

The study pins great hopes on the ability of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) to reconcile coal's importance as an energy source and its contributions to CO2 emissions, joining OPEC, Midwestern Governors, and BP in hoping CCS will prove to be an economically viable solution for cleaning up fossil fuel emissions.

Dull, et al, argue that the re-growth of Neotropical forests following the Columbian encounter led to terrestrial biospheric carbon sequestration on the order of 2 to 5 GtC, thereby contributing to the well - documented decrease in atmospheric C recorded in Antarctic ice cores from about 1500 through 1750.

It is divided into sections on the role of climate change finance in the context of agricultural development and poverty reduction, and a guide to developing soil carbon sequestration crediting projects.

Another scheme has been proposed to install carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) on half of all coal - fired plants in the USA.

We have relatively strong national and global data on carbon dioxide emissions, mostly from burning fossil fuel and cement production; accumulations in the atmosphere show unequivocally that emissions far exceed the sequestration capacity of the ecosphere.

(Sec. 112) Amends the Clean Air Act (CAA) to require the EPA Administrator to: (1) establish a coordinated approach to certifying and permitting geologic sequestration; (2) promulgate regulations, within two years, to protect human health and the environment by minimizing the risk of escape to the atmosphere of carbon dioxide injected for purposes of geologic sequestration; (3) report to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works every three years on geologic sequestration in the United States and in North America.

Subtitle B: Carbon Capture and Sequestration -(Sec. 111) Requires the EPA Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary, the Secretary of the Interior, and other relevant agencies, to report to Congress on a unified and comprehensive strategy to address the key legal, regulatory and other barriers to the commercial - scale deployment of carbon capture and sSequestration -(Sec. 111) Requires the EPA Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary, the Secretary of the Interior, and other relevant agencies, to report to Congress on a unified and comprehensive strategy to address the key legal, regulatory and other barriers to the commercial - scale deployment of carbon capture and sequestrationsequestration.

Requires the EPA Administrator to report, semiannually, on the nameplate capacity of units in commercial operation equipped with carbon capture and sequestration technology in the United States.

(Sec. 339) Requires the EPA Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Interior, and the heads of other relevant agencies to report to Congress on setting forth a unified and comprehensive strategy to address the key legal, regulatory, technological, and other barriers to maximizing the potential for sustainable biological sequestration of carbon within the United States.

On top of this we are a global leader in carbon capture and sequestration, collaborating in research and development into revolutionary ways to make this technology more affordable and commercially viable.

b) Heather R. McCarthy, Ram Oren, Hyun - Seok Kim, Kurt H. Johnson, Chris Maier, Seth G. Pritchard, Micheal A. Davis: Interaction of ice storms and management practices on current carbon sequestration in forests with potential mitigation under future CO2 atmosphere, Journal of Geophysical Research, (08 August 2006) Vol.

On climate change, the book looks at programs to secure investment and income opportunities that arise from carbon sequestration and enhancing carbon stocks, as well as at climate change adaptation through SLM in the Pacific Islands.

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.

The report suggests: «Instruct agencies that in setting national priorities for energy resources generally and for transportation fuels in particular, the administration will not rely on unproven or commercially unavailable technologies — for example, reducing the climate impact of a fuel with a carbon capture and sequestration.

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The allocated resources are spent on subsidizing costly technologies — for example, deep underground sequestration of carbon dioxide produced in power stations — that reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, or placing a tax on activities that produce carbon emissions.

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.

«It emerged at the international level, through the combination of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low - cost alternatives to supposedly «offset» their continued and excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the «protection» of forests in their countries, (4) the interests of corporations that could profit from market - tradable «offset» credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn «unexploited» forests into a new market for this type of capital, through the commercialization of «environmental services» such as carbon sequestration, among others.»