Sentences with phrase «sequester significant amounts of carbon»

With warming greater than 2 °C, there is a high risk of abrupt and irreversible changes to ecosystems such as forests, which would lead to «substantial additional climate change» considering that trees sequester significant amounts of carbon dioxide.

«But it has dampened hopes on the potential of the Southern Ocean to sequester significant amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) and thus mitigate global warming.»

In a statement published after the experiment was completed, the Alfred Wegener Institute, where Smetacek works, said the results «dampened hopes on the potential of the Southern Ocean to sequester significant amounts of carbon dioxide and thus mitigate global warming.»

Young trees don't actually start to sequester significant amounts of carbon dioxidefor 20 years, he says, and it takes a tree 100 years to remove a measly 3,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — assuming the tree survives drought, fire, flood, disease, and other afflictions.

Not exact matches

Mangroves, tidal salt marshes, and seagrasses sequester and store significant amounts of coastal blue carbon from the atmosphere and ocean and are now recognized for their role in mitigating climate change.

«We are skeptical that a significant amount of carbon would ever be sequestered in this manner, and don't believe this is where scarce public research dollars devoted to energy should be spent.

Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Mexico offer strong forest rights and significant areas of legally recognized community forests — areas that sequester considerable amounts of carbon.

Although older trees store significant amounts of carbon, these trees do not continue to sequester at the rates they did when they were younger.

Those three pillars: help farmers adapt to climate change, promote food security and profitability, and sequester significant amounts of soil carbon.