Sentences with phrase «on carbon sequestration on»

In week three of agriculture month, we are focusing on carbon sequestration on croplands.

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 systems.

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.

Coffee, especially shade coffee, is a global crop that has a relatively lower impact on greenhouse gas emissions and a more positive impact on carbon sequestration than many other crops.There is potential for shade coffee farms to contribute to the mitigation of climate change and generate income for farmers at the same time; I have a previous post that outlines the basics.

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.

Trees are about half carbon by mass, and tropical nations, including Mexico, will rely considerably on their forest carbon sequestration as they strive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

Offshore sequestration sites for carbon dioxide, while not major players with proposed capture projects on power plants yet, are considered a potential reservoir for the greenhouse gas because of their size and geology.

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.

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.

Ramanathan and colleagues will deliver a complementary report detailing the «three - lever» mitigation strategy of emissions control and carbon sequestration on Sept. 18 at the United Nations.

New research on carbon sequestration suggests that carbon dioxide could be chemically converted to a solid, providing a safe way to get rid of a lot of greenhouse gas.

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.

They note that on - site carbon sequestration run on renewable energy could also lower these plants» impact.

A leading agriculture company is about to put the United States on the map with the world's biggest carbon sequestration projects.

With the world still heavily reliant on fossil fuels to meet its energy needs, carbon sequestration technologies could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

«On the one hand you wouldn't want to bet the future of U.S. climate policy on it until one has done more work, but on the other hand it looks quite promising,» says engineer M. Granger Morgan of Carnegie Mellon University, a carbon sequestration experOn the one hand you wouldn't want to bet the future of U.S. climate policy on it until one has done more work, but on the other hand it looks quite promising,» says engineer M. Granger Morgan of Carnegie Mellon University, a carbon sequestration experon it until one has done more work, but on the other hand it looks quite promising,» says engineer M. Granger Morgan of Carnegie Mellon University, a carbon sequestration experon the other hand it looks quite promising,» says engineer M. Granger Morgan of Carnegie Mellon University, a carbon sequestration expert.

You report on a successful trial of ocean iron - seeding to promote plankton growth and potential carbon sequestration via the sinking...

We need to find ways to put a value on the full range of ecosystem services and implement monitoring and payment systems to reward those managing land sustainably — for example, by offering incentives for carbon sequestration or water catchment services.

«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.»

Now that we've unlocked its genetic secrets, loblolly pine will take on even greater importance as we look for new sources of biomass to drive our nation's bioeconomy and ways to increase carbon sequestration and mitigate climate change,» said Sonny Ramaswamy, director of USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), which funded the research.

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

Columbia University physicist Peter Eisenberger created an effective model that proves, through real world testing, that carbon sequestration can be used on a global scale and can prevent the atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide from ever exceeding 450 ppm, below dangerous levels.

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.

But it's too simplistic to rely on forests to continue removing carbon from the atmosphere, the study says, noting that forest carbon sequestration is reversible if drought, wildfire and insect damage increase.

He and his colleagues turned to satellite data to observe the phenomenon on a much broader scope and found that iceberg - related blooms could contribute a fifth of the Southern Ocean's total carbon sequestration.

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.

Felzer, B., et al., 2005: Global and future implications of ozone on net primary production and carbon sequestration using a biogeochemical model.

Major food corporations like EPIC, a line of meat products, and Annie's, the popular mac - and - cheese purveyor, both owned by General Mills, have recently hopped on the carbon - sequestration bandwagon and committed to regenerative practices, signaling a new wave of sustainable food beyond the organically grown label.

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.

Examples include forecasting climate variability and its impacts on water supplies, studying the spread of infectious diseases, searching for microbial - based alternative fuels, and the science and economics of carbon sequestration.

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.

The city saves money on liquid fuels, heat, and electricity, (2) gains carbon credits from biochar carbon sequestration, and (3) earns income from the sale of biochar to local farmers, who provide an additional portion of the cities food.

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

Once the nation is committed to action, the government and private sector could concentrate their thinking on whether very large - scale infrastructure investments would need to be supported with public funds ---- projects such as solarization of the grid, new coal power plants with carbon capture and sequestration, etc..

Most research related to grazing management, and thus carbon sequestration potential, on rangelands cited by Briske et al. [1,2,3] has been short - term and has examined the issue from a reductionist viewpoint that ignores the critical influences of scale, and does not use adaptive multi-paddock grazing to achieve sound animal production, resource improvement, and socio - economic goals under constantly varying conditions on rangelands [4].

By ignoring such successful restoration examples, Briske and other scientists with the same limited experience are grossly underestimating the potential of management to increase carbon sequestration on the rangelands of the world.

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.

I think reliance on carbon sequestration is silliness, you still have to replace combustion with some other primary energy source, before you run out of fuel and air to build it.

If you're trying to stop global warming, then you want more money for carbon sequestration research, and you don't care how much is spent on climate research.

The latest AdapCC newsletter outlines the ambitious scope of the project — working on everything from better pest management to reforestation to use of renewable energies and carbon sequestration.

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