Sentences with word «peatland»

To give you some idea of the risk, if palm oil grown in peatlands in Southeast Asia replaces only perhaps 5 % of the soybean or rapeseed oil diverted to biodiesel, then the emissions from that decomposing peat alone cancel out any benefit from not using fossil fuels.

Last year the Agricultural Ministry lifted a moratorium on the conversion of peatlands of less than 3 meters in depth for oil palm plantations.

In addition, the journal «Mitigation and Adaptation for Global Change» is soon publishing a series of 10 papers on peatlands in Southeast Asia, Latin America and Central Africa by researchers from CIFOR and other organizations.

In the case of Finland, the estimate differs due to the inclusion of a new range of estimates from peatlands in its estimate of land - use change and forestry.

A controversial project to restore 2.5 million hectares of tropical peatland hinges on sustainable farming

The report, written by low - carbon fuels policy expert Chris Malins, blames land cover change like deforestation and the draining of peatlands for palm oil's harmful impacts.

The clearing of rainforests and carbon - rich peatlands for new plantations is releasing globally significant carbon pollution, making Conflict Palm Oil a major driver of human induced climate change.

The body charged with establishing a framework for a global climate treaty will account for emissions from peatlands degradation, a source of roughly 6 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.

Most studies of peatland fire emission factors, which help researchers approximate the amount of pollutants released into the atmopshere, have been carried out in a laboratory setting.

JAKARTA — Experts and officials have taken issue with a new study that warns of hefty economic losses as a result of the Indonesian government's policies to protect peatlands from...

In the study, the researchers examined nitrogen and oxygen isotopes in N2O samples collected from permafrost peatland sites in northwestern Russia.

A study issued by Indonesian government recommends a moratorium on peatlands conversion in order to meet its greenhouse gas emissions target pledged for 2020, reports the Jakarta Post.

Analysis of fossil pollen and spores from northern peatland reveals major shifts in Alaskan coastal climate and vegetation since the last ice age, which affects carbon storage potential.

While scientists have long understood the carbon storing potential of tropical peatland forests — they lock up to five times more carbon than tropical forests and account for a third of the world's total carbon reserves — much less is known about the actual amounts of carbon stored in their soils and the impacts of unsustainable land - use practices.

Their analysis suggests that carbon storage loss caused by peatland conversion could be equivalent to as much as... Read more →

The company, which is one of the world's largest buyers of palm oil, had faced criticism from environmentalists for purchasing palm oil potentially linked to rainforest and peatland destruction in southeast Asia.

«Boreal peatlands not a global warming time bomb.»

The goal is to restore more than two million hectares of degraded peatlands over a five - year period.

A separate study published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics found that emissions from burning peatlands contained potent carcinogens and over 90 different gases, some of them highly toxic, including formaldehyde, acrolein, benzene, carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide.

As northern Minnesota's climate got wetter, precipitation drove mobile forms of young carbon deeper into peatlands, doubling the size of methane - producing strata.

Of about 2.6 million hectares of land that burned between June and October 2015, 33 per cent were carbon - rich peatland ecosystems, which are home to orangutans and other endangered species.

Increasingly, projects to restore peatlands and prevent carbon release are being urged to include a strong biodiversity component — focusing on reintroducing plant and animal life.

«What was surprising was just how slow the process of carbon accumulation and the development of peatland soils actually is, but when we disturb these systems through human activity, carbon dioxide is released very quickly,» said Daniel Murdiyarso, Principal Scientist at CIFOR and co-author of the report.

«By incentivizing local economies, having strong community empowerment and increasing knowledge on sustainable peatland management we can see positive change,» she says.

Fossils unearthed at a location about 10 kilometers away from the camel find, and from rocks of approximately the same age, reveal that the landscape hosted an open forest punctuated with peatlands and inhabited by bears, rabbits, beavers, a greyhound - sized deerlet, and a pony - sized, three - toed horse.

That has some scientists worried that powerful emissions of methane from permafrost peatlands as well as from the warming Arctic ocean bottom are already upon us.

Peat is to be phased out in a move designed to help protect and restore the UK's peatlands which are considered valuable carbon sinks and habitats.

Ron Benner, director of the Marine Science Program at the University of South Carolina and one of the study's authors, says the findings are important in understanding how Earth's changing climate will affect peatlands.

The Cancun Agreement also opened the door for peatlands restoration as a climate change mitigation strategy.

Put another way, in one year more than 2,300 hectares of pristine coastal peatland forests — the equivalent of 3,200 soccer fields — would be needed to absorb the same amount of carbon lost over 100 years from just one hectare of converted forest.

The concern is that under the CDM, carbon finance is used to perversely subsidize conversion of carbon - dense peatlands for oil palm plantations, a process that generates substantial greenhouse gas emissions, thereby undermining any potential carbon dioxide savings from use of palm oil - based biodiesel.

All of the fires occurred on degraded peat, however, which means their results will likely differ from emission factors studied at pristine peatlands.

«Hopefully this research will contribute to a growing awareness within the government and local communities of the importance of peatland conservation for the global climate system.»

JAKARTA — The daunting task of mapping Indonesia's vast peatlands in painstaking detail has entered the home stretch, as competing proposals vie for selection as the standard to be adopted...

However, palm oil sourced from rainforest and peatlands generating emissions 8 to 21 times greater than those from diesel.

World's largest peatland with vast carbon - storage capacity found in Congo.

They also say, «global soil C stocks from 0 to 3m depth (peatlands not included) have been estimated to be 2300 Pg (Jobbágy and Jackson 2000).»

Loss of peatland landscapes will result in release of additional 11.4 - 47.3 million tons of carbon dioxide.

The special issue will be titled «Tropical peatlands under siege: the need for evidence - based policies and strategies».

A new mapping tool based on NASA satellite data confirms that the majority of fires that drove the recent haze over Sumatra and Malaysia were concentrated in deforested peatlands and...