Sentences with phrase «other terrestrial forests»

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The U.S. and Canadian NGO ForestEthics reports that «Canada's boreal forest (alone) stores 23 percent of the planet's terrestrial carbon - more carbon per acre than any other ecosystem on earth, including tropical forests.

Tropical forests convert more carbon from the atmosphere into biomass than any other terrestrial ecosystem on Earth.

Because tropical forests like those in the Sabah have converted large quantities atmospheric carbon into organic material — and they accomplish more of this than any other terrestrial ecosystem on Earth.

While laying out several important wild cards (expanded farming of biofuels among them), Ausubel and his co-authors see a reasonable prospect for conserving, and restoring, forests and other stressed terrestrial ecosystems even as humanity exerts an ever greater influence on the planet.

This forest plays a key role in the global carbon equation by serving as a major storehouse for terrestrial carbon — indeed, it is believed to store more carbon per hectare than any other ecosystem on Earth.

This finds stronger and solid footing in Article 5.1, which states, «Parties should take action to conserve and enhance, as appropriate, sinks and reservoirs of greenhouse gases» (i.e. «biomass, forests and oceans, and other terrestrial, coastal and marine ecosystems»).

In other words, if all of the terrestrial carbon today (in forests, animals, soils, etc.) were converted to carbon dioxide and returned to the global inorganic carbon pool, the change in the global carbon isotopic ratio would only be a third as big as that observed during the PETM!

Their solid measurements of a terrestrial carbon sink removing 0.3 Pg of carbon per year from the atmosphere in Africa's trees, combined with those of other tropical forests, can explain more than one third of the missing carbon sink (1.3 Pg carbon per year).

These include the establishment of effective protected areas that would encompass a significant proportion of terrestrial, aquatic and aerial habitats, halting the degradation of forests and other native land cover and restoring those that have already been degraded; shifting diets to plant - based foods; reducing fertility rates by ensuring access to family planning services; and developing new green technologies.

This refers to that part of the framework convention itself that recognizes «common but differentiated» responsibilities between rich and poor countries, and also the need to promote the sustainable management of natural carbon sinks, including «biomass, forests and oceans as well as other terrestrial, coastal and marine ecosystems.»

Eighty percent of the world's known terrestrial plant and animal species can be found in forests, and tropical rainforests are home to more species than any other terrestrial habitat.