Sentences with phrase «peat land»

In 2015, after months of forest fires and choking pollution levels, the Indonesian government identified dozens of companies responsible for millions of hectares of torched forest and peat land.

Yes, I agree when deforestation of peat land converter to oil palm plantation, Co2 released to the atmosphere caused global warming but in the other hand when Oil Palm Plantation already established, it also can absorb Co2 through photosynthesis.

And, it underscores how important it is to conserve the vast peat land resources of the far north - instead of mindlessly squandering them with oil extracting enterprises.

Last year, 74,000 hectares of peat land were set ablaze, making the haze disaster even worse.

It dates its history to December 20, 1625, when Roelof van Echten bought a large tract of peat land from farmers of the district with the plan to harvest its peat.

On Friday, Jokowi announced radical steps to address the annual peat land fires.

With the backdrop of massive peat land fires sending carbon into the atmosphere and the fast - approaching U.N. climate talks, environmental advocates expect today's visit between Indonesian President Joko «Jokowi» Widodo and President Obama to touch on climate change and deforestation challenges.

The company is a signatory of the 2014 New York Declaration on Forests and has made a long - term commitment to only buy palm oil whose production doesn't lead to deforestation, fire or loss of peat land.

Carrefour published its Sourcing Policy on Sustainable Palm Oil in 2014 which includes the RSPO standard and additional criteria such as protection of peat lands and high carbon stock areas.

However, rain forests and peat lands in palm oil producing countries are under pressure — particularly in Indonesia and Malaysia — and in response, many of the world's largest retailers and food companies have pledged to convert entirely to sustainable palm oil by 2015.

The planting of oil palm plantations leads to the loss of natural forests and peat lands and plays havoc with ecosystems and biodiversity.

Yesterday, Indonesia pledged to cease all deforestation activities for two years after Norway agreed to inject $ 1 billion into the effort to save the Southeast Asian country's forests and peat lands.

«The announcement suggests that Jokowi himself is recognizing that a long - term solution to the fires can not be achieved without a fundamental change in land use, particularly related to peat lands,» she said.

Annual smoke and haze, created when the nation's peat lands are burned and cleared for agricultural use, create a regional health threat and send significant carbon into the atmosphere.

«Indonesia is one of the major emitters in the world, and this year it's likely to be even more than usual,» because of the raging fires burning carbon - rich peat lands.

On the other hand CH4 is produced mostly indirectly, for example, in growing rice crops or in draining out water for peat lands.

The landscape varies from lunar landscape through peat lands and fertile farm lands to stunning coastline and gorgeous hills.

Over 60 % of mangroves and 45 % of peat lands have already disappeared to meet these demands.

Would we expect to see these emissions and emission rates change for different peat lands in different parts of the world?

In Southeast Asia, one fourth of all oil - palm plantations are located on drained peat lands.

Woody plantations crops like oil palm and coconut rate much better, although their advantages are reduced when they are grown in place of carbon - rich tropical rainforests and peat lands.

Borneo's peat lands going up in smoke Fire in the Peat Lands Borneo's peat lands going up in smoke Tina Butler, mongabay.com April 21, 2005 The tropical rainforests of Kalimantan...

West Siberia is home to the world's largest expanse of peat lands — covering an area nearly the size of Texas.2, 3 These peat lands are interspersed with boreal forest, and both are typically underlain with permafrost (permanently frozen ground).

Boreal forests and peat lands — which often include carbon - containing permafrost — play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and therefore in regulating climate change.7, 15

The INCAS system will expand in the coming months, to produce national level estimates of greenhouse gas emissions and removals from all of Indonesia's forest and peat lands.

These peat lands cover more than 1.878 billion acres (760 million hectares).

But a study published today in the National Academy of Sciences, found that half of oil palm plantations in Indonesian Borneo were established on peat lands.

«Indonesia peat lands.»

Muddy mangrove swamps hold onto as much 25 % of the carbon stored in similarly threatened tropical peat lands - despite covering a much smaller area.

Center for American ProgressWith other smaller changes in global emissions projections — including a decrease due to the recent economic downturn and reduced emissions from deforestation and loss of peat lands — the high - end abatement path so far from the Copenhagen Accord commitments leaves us only 5 gigatons short of the 44 gigaton goal by 2020 — two - thirds of the reductions needed to achieve climate safety (Figure 3).

Although they make up only 1 % of all tropical forest areas, the thickness of this carbon - rich layer means mangroves hold as much as a quarter of the carbon of tropical peat lands.

Not exact matches

But changes in land use — draining the water to plant acres of crops that demand drier soil, a common practice in tropical regions, or building a road through an area — can dry out the peat.

This map points out countries known to have peatlands (gray), as of 2017, and the locations of those peat - filled lands (green).

Tangible effects nearby also appear: clinking our peat soil by water extraction is also a form of land degradation, leading to more carbon dioxide emissions, and therefore triggering climate change.

Many of the wildfires occur on land that has deep reserves of peat, which is rich in carbon.

In Indonesia and Malaysia, where some 85 % of the world's palm oil is produced, more than 16 million hectares of land — rainforest, peat bogs and old rubber plantations — have been taken over by oil palm, and there is no sign of the industry slowing down.

Globally, peat covers 3 per cent of the land surface, with two - thirds of the total in Canada and the former Soviet Union.

Unilever was also a player in palm oil trader Wilmar's recent agreement to adopt a no - deforestation policy, which prohibits its suppliers from establishing plantations on lands with large amounts of carbon — like peat soils — or lands with a high conservation value (ClimateWire, Dec. 8, 2013).

Activists hope Jokowi will go beyond a recent announcement to control peat fires and reform land use policies, although there is some skepticism that other topics will overtake the agenda.

When the peat fires, almost all of which are intentionally set to clear forests for palm oil plantations, began this year, the president broke with past leadership, expressed his dismay and threatened to sanction palm oil company PT Tempirai Palm Resources after he paid a surprise visit to its land concession in South Sumatra where fires are raging (ClimateWire, Sept. 14).

It is part of an ongoing and unprecedented drive to protect Canada's northern boreal forests, peat bogs, wetlands and tundra — a drive that is also changing how land managers view their stewardship, civic leaders approach economic growth and companies view their bottom line.

Our ensemble fire weather season length metric captured important wildfire events throughout Eurasia such as the Indonesian fires of 1997 — 98 where peat fires, following an El Niño - induced drought, released carbon equivalent to 13 — 40 % of the global fossil fuel emissions from only 1.4 % of the global vegetated land area (Fig. 4, 1997 — 1998) 46 and the heatwave over Western Russia in 2010 (Fig. 4, 2010) that led to its worst fire season in recorded history and triggered extreme air pollution in Moscow51.

In addition, the land itself was harvested for peat, the outpost's primary construction material.

These are the truly unnatural fires as tropical wet forests (and peat fires too) are not supposed to burn but do so because of unsustainable land - uses.

The paper giant has been dogged by allegations that is destroying key wildlife habitat, driving substantial greenhouse gas emissions through the conversion of peat forests, dispossessing local communities of land, and engaging in a heavy - handed campaign to undermine its critics within Indonesia and abroad.

Pratseyo is now attempting to save the country's peat forests which contain eight times the carbon content of other rainforests by engineering a massive land - swap, essentially by convincing palm oil producers to move their operations to degraded land.

The United Kingdom included emissions from peat extraction, drainage of wetlands and deep peat in their land - use change and forestry estimate.

The coverage of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines on wetlands was restricted to peatlands drained and managed for peat extraction, conversion to flooded lands, and limited guidance for drained organic soils.

Fires also emit methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2), but peat fires may emit up to 10 times more methane than fires occurring on other types of land.

In recent years, climate scientists have been concerned about a so - called «methane time bomb» on land, which would be detonated when warming Arctic temperatures melt permafrost and cause frozen vegetation in peat bogs and other areas to decay, releasing methane and carbon dioxide.