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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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).

«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.

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).

«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.

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.

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.

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

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 dioxidIn 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 dioxidin peat bogs and other areas to decay, releasing methane and carbon dioxide.

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.

And they found that the highest post-thaw emissions of nitrous oxide came from the bare peat soils: these emissions were fivefold those from still - frozen soils and matched the kind of outgassing observed in tropical soils, which are the world's largest natural land - based nitrous oxide source.

In Indonesia, for example, where oil palm covers approximately 10.5 million hectares of land, companies have vowed to halt deforestation and the draining of peat swamps, thereby certifying their products as not having contributed to the destruction of forests or increased greenhouse gas emissions.

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This includes carbon on land in vegetation, soils, peat and freshwater and in the atmosphere, ocean and surface ocean sediments.

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 permafrost of the world's largest peat bog, in West Siberia, 10 contains some 70 billion metric tons of methane — equal to about 16 percent of all the carbon added to the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion, land - use changes, and cement manufacture over the course of the past 150 years (from 1850 to 2000).7

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.

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.

The flux is from the biosphere to the atmosphere or the biosphere to sedimentation — except where organics are retained on land in peat moss for instance.

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

But this is the really short version in regards to climate change: When you chop down the forests grown on peat and drain the land to depths sufficient for oil palm cultivation, the soil starts oxidizing and releasing massive amounts of CO2.

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.

These «degraded» lands however still contain large amounts of carbon in the case of water logged organic peat soils.

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).

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.