Sentences with phrase «other land use account»

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The groups said the United States should make the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of forests in developing nations a central goal of federal climate legislation, as tropical deforestation and other land - use decisions account for about 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

WCRP's models take into account greenhouse gas emissions and other natural and humanmade influences, but do not consider agricultural land use.

Therefore, he and his colleagues hope that decision - makers and other actors involved in land use planning in the Amazon region will take the implications of the study into account.

Polasky said that it's important to account for landscape changes resulting from oil and gas development, but many other types of development alter ecosystems and the use of land, including urbanization and expansion of cropland.

In order to account for the characteristic features of cascading use, wood researcher Michael Risse applied the holistic life cycle approach and analyzed the exergy of all materials used, the internal recycling processes, and the consumption of other primary resources, such as the forest land areas required.

The research, which was the first to analyze several types of drought and to take into account land use changes in upstream Syria, could inform water policies in other arid countries with shared rivers.

Today agriculture and other land - use changes account for about a third of global greenhouse gas emissions.

«Human losses will only be mitigated when land - use planning takes fire hazards into account in the same manner as other natural hazards, like floods, hurricanes and earthquakes.»

In particular, the complexity of carbon sink and source accounting requires separating the contributions from land use, land use change, and forestry from those of other areas.

More specifically, researchers led by the University of Idaho's Tara Hudiburg merged the DayCent ecological model with another, BEPAM, originally designed to study environmental and economic impacts of proposed biofuel policies, forming a combined model that simultaneously accounts for market forces, land use, transportation costs, and a variety of other factors.

Tax approximate CO2 emissions from final combustion of biofuels and biomass based strictly on product type without attempting to account for carbon sequestered during growth cycles or emitted during harvesting, distillation or other chemical processing or land - use impacts.

WCRP's models take into account greenhouse gas emissions and other natural and humanmade influences, but do not consider agricultural land use.

«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.»

«Although deforestation rates have declined since the early 2000s, deforestation and other land - use change still accounts for 14 % of greenhouse gas emissions in the world.

Other sources, including land use change, forestry and agriculture account for around a third of emissions.

The way we use land provides the world with food, timber and other important products — but it also accounts for a quarter of global emissions.

They include a clear commitment to increase the 40 % target in case of linking the EU's emissions trading system (EU ETS) with other carbon markets, the way land use emissions are accounted for and the threat the existing surplus of emission allowances pose on the 2030 climate target.

In the paper this result is reached by taking also into account several possibilities including the fact that the volcano cooling is evidently overestimated in the GCMs, as we have seen above, and that part of the leftover warming from 1970 to 2000 could have still be due to other factors such as urban heat island and land use change.

After taking into account environmental protections and other factors, Glenn's report estimates that 480,000 square miles of unused land around the world could be used to grow a special set of salt - tolerant plants — halophytes.

Although most people think of climate change as a fossil fuel problem, agriculture, forestry, land - use change, and other land uses, (the «land sector»), account for about 24 % of global greenhouse gas emission.