Sentences with phrase «other land use»

Cutting down forests has reduced the planet's CO2 absorption capacity, and other land use changes have had a net forcing effect on climate.

He also represents clients in federal and state courts on zoning appeals and other land use matters.

We emit CO2 from burning fossil fuels and other land use activity.

This technical document sums up the lessons that can be drawn from the analysis and interpretation of the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use Mitigation Project (AFOLU MP) database collecting information on ongoing agriculture and forestry mitigation projects.

INCAS is designed to bring together best available spatial, biophysical and land management data from across the nation, to quantify changes in carbon stocks and greenhouse gas emissions in the agriculture, forestry and other land use sectors in Indonesia.

«We tend to measure the impact of human activity based on the area it affects on a map, but mountaintop mining is penetrating much more deeply into the earth than other land use in the region like forestry, agriculture or urbanization,» said Emily Bernhardt, a professor of biology at Duke and co-author on the study.

«This research can be a starting point for a richer public dialogue on whether new policy is needed to fully value the environmental benefits of growing energy crops and making other land use changes,» says Gary Radloff, director of Midwest energy policy analysis at the Wisconsin Energy Institute.

Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use Emissions by Sources and Removals by Sinks.

Sellers who believe the value of their property is affected by Oregon's property compensation laws are advised to seek the counsel of appraisers, attorneys or other land use professionals.

The predominant other land use is residential.

The latest assessment of global climate change is out and scientists from around the world have recommended changes including some in agriculture, forestry and other land use designed to mitigate their effects on climate change.

Some farming practices and other land uses increase the levels of methane and nitrous oxide.

Annex 1 countries have laid their LULUCF cards on the table, proposing to hide forestry emissions and largely not account for emissions from other land uses.

Whatever they can not make off limits via Antiquities Act, wilderness, or other land use designations, they intend to lock up or shut down by other means.

Ecuador's FIP investment plan for an indicative $ 24 million in grants and concessional financing aims to contribute to Ecuador's REDD + Action Plan for reducing deforestation and forest degradation through conservation, sustainable forest management, and the optimization of other land uses, and contributing to GHG emissions reductions.

From chopped - down forests to trampled grasslands to burping cows, agriculture, forestry, and other land use account for between 21 to 24 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

The study may extend to areas beyond energy, such as agriculture, forestry, urban development, and other land uses which can have significant effects on GHG emissions.

James also represents clients in administrative hearings and other land use litigation matters.

Where he solves problems relating to all facets of real estate, including commercial and residential acquisition, financing, development, leases, foreclosure, landlord tenant, eviction, contract issues, HOA disputes, broker representation, zoning and other land use issues.

There is a growing trend of municipalities trying to use zoning and other land use regulations to restrict or eliminate manufactured housing in their jurisdictions.

Fossil fuels are obviously a significant input — the biggest single input but agriculture in its broadest sense along with other land use changes contribute a lot.

Like bioenergy, forestry and soil - based BCDR face land and productivity constraints and may compete with other land uses.

Forests have been responsible for global greenhouse gas emissions through forestry and other land use activities.

Capacity has also been raised on GHG inventories through trainings and the GHG inventory database for the agriculture, forestry and other land use sector was updated.

The land sector — agriculture, forestry and other land use — is the second - largest emitter of greenhouse gases after energy.

Also imperiled is next year's planned launch of the Amazonia 1 satellite — an Earth observation satellite that will monitor deforestation and other land use changes — and daily operations of the Tupã supercomputer, which is crucial to weather forecast and climate research, says Ricardo Galvão, director of the National Institute for Space Research in São José dos Campos, Brazil.

Rice was part of a group of 18 authors from around the world who wrote the chapter pertaining to agriculture, forestry, and other land use.

In total, the new analysis shows that 37 percent of the world's forests have been converted to other land uses.

«Increases in Common Raven distribution and abundance in the American west mirror declines in distribution and abundance of Greater Sage - Grouse, where energy transmission corridors and other land use changes have altered sagebrush steppe habitat,» said David Delehanty of ISU.

Agriculture, forestry and other land uses (AFOLU) are responsible for nearly a quarter of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, about half of that from deforestation and forest degradation, mostly driven by demand for food and wood products and inequities and inefficiencies in the use of land for their production.

and natural grasslands to other land uses, such as agriculture.

Reduce emissions from forestry and other land use to 95 % below 2010 levels by 2030, stop net deforestation by the 2020s

* Reforestation and other land use changes.

Finally, in 2006, the term shifted again — this time to Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU).

About one quarter of all human induced emissions come from agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU), mainly from land use change, fertilizer use, livestock and peatland degradation.

Today, we examine the role that carbon finance — especially REDD + (reducing emissions from degradation of forests, plus other land uses)-- can play in helping (or,...

She was a critical member of the team recognized with the Nobel Prize in 2007, serving as a co-convening lead author on the contribution of forests, agriculture and other land uses to climate change for five Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports.

«China falls short by not presenting a detailed framework on how to account for forest emissions and sequestration, though it is transparent and specific on actions relating to agriculture, forestry, and other land use.»