Sentences with phrase «state as carbon sinks»

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Massachusetts ocean waters are biologically diverse, support the Bay State's traditional fishing industry, and act as natural carbon sinks.

Unless someone has evidence to the contrary, it would seem christmas tree farms are carbon sinks, since the ground is not typically tilled, grass is allowed to grow with the trees and as stated above, the root system left after harvest is itself a sink of carbon.

Regarding the National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs), the European Parliament set for a binding template for the NECPs and added into the template many important details, e.g. on phase out of fossil fuel subsidies, Member State's national trajectories for maintaining and enhancing the carbon removals from sinks as well as trajectories and objectives for energy from renewable sources produced by cities, energy communities and self - consumers.

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Müller believes polycarbonates could serve as effective carbon sinks for the millions of tons of emissions spewed by coal - fired plants; assuming the price tag for any such technology is within limits - and that the capacity for economies of scale exists - it could, as he states, be a «significant contribution» towards global efforts to slash carbon emissions.

Sequestering up to 260 million tonnes of carbon per year, the Chinese land sink is more than twice as large than that of geographic Europe, and comparable in size to that of the United States.