Sentences with phrase «sink capacity»

It should not be presumed that, as a class, emissions reduction and adaptation policies are less problematic than increasing sink capacity or solar radiation management.

That finding highlights «the substantial C - sink capacity of this land - use transition if these lands are allowed to continue returning towards a natural forest condition,» the authors wrote.

These models provide new information on the impacts of stump wood energy on the carbon sink capacity of forests, the biodiversity of forest nature and the soil structure of recovery areas.

The estimates differed for New Zealand and the United States on account of an increase in their forests sink capacity as a consequence of improved data, and in the case of New Zealand also due to refining of the methodology used.

Emphasising the option of increasing sink capacity as a separate category might also make it more prominent.

The United Kingdom reported an increased sink capacity due to improved statistics and new data.

Explore further: Carbon sink capacity in northern forests reduced by global warming.

Instead, let it focus on considering how specific technologies for increasing GHG sink capacity and managing solar radiation might operate and the appropriate mix between them and other proposals that will best protect important interests from being severely compromised by climate change.

However, «whether the relationship found implies a decreasing carbon sink capacity of North American ecosystems in the coming decades is unclear», Bastos notes.

Last month, before the Supreme Court's decision, the Rhodium Group, a research firm that has performed extensive analysis of climate - change projections, published a report concluding that even if the administration executed all its existing and planned policies with maximum effect, and the most optimistic forecasts for technological development and forest sink capacity were borne out, the United States would still not hit the target.

Specifying «increasing sink capacity», or increasing the capacity to remove GHGs (that is, greenhouse gas removal, or «GHGR») as a separate category allows us to distinguish two separate stages in the process of avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference that are usually bundled together under the term «mitigation».

«This «50:50:50:50» estimate shows that even with continuing deforestation over the next 40 years, the mitigation potential is large, in addition to protecting the sink capacity of forest for continued removal of atmospheric CO2.»

Austria, Finland, Ireland and the United States did not present IPCC standard data tables, although Finland used the IPCC methodology to calculate the sink capacity of its forests.

Pachauri outlined the potential for major changes to the climate system, which could overwhelm human response strategies - breakdown of the thermohaline circulation, disintegration of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, a shift in mean climate towards an El Nino - like state, reduced carbon sink capacity, methane release from hydrates, and a rearrangement of biome distributions.

(United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation)-- Vegetation 650 gigatons, atmosphere 750 gigatons, soil 1500 gigatons ■ The carbon sink capacity of the world's agricultural and degraded soils is 50 % to 66 % of the historic carbon loss of 42 to 78 gigatons of carbon.

Decades go by, no agreements on the co2 cycle, sink capacity, temp data sets etc. etc..

Yet in view of the entirely predictable erosion of sink capacity (by forest loss & combustion, soils» desiccation, permafrost melt, and oceans» warming and acidification) that notion appears to be an outstanding example of optimism bias.

The carbon sink capacity of the world's agricultural and degraded soils is 50 to 66 % of the historic carbon loss of 42 to 78 gigatons of carbon.

Research is aiming to determine how the carbon sink capacity can be optimised, for example by reducing the area burnt, especially by hot late dry season fires.

Prof Glen Peters suggested to me some time ago that The Global Carbon Project is seeing some evidence of such deterioration in sink capacity, so I would pay attention to their reports for details of it.