Sentences with phrase «store global carbon dioxide emissions»

Put another way, the hunting and poaching of tropical animals could change the face of rainforests such as the Amazon, diminishing their ability to store global carbon dioxide emissions by up to 20 percent.

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Volcanic rocks deep beneath the sea off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington State might prove one of the best places to store the carbon dioxide emissions that are causing global warming, a new study finds.

As more carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere, the global ocean soaks up much of the excess, storing roughly 30 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions coming from human activities.

This suggests that storing carbon in forests, agricultural areas, and other ecosystems is an important and cost - effective part of a bigger carbon dioxide emissions control strategy that includes dramatic changes to the global energy system.

It estimates that the processes needed to feed the world — from farming to storing, transporting and refrigerating food — accounted for 19 - 29 percent of global emissions in 2008, or the equivalent of 10,000 - 17,000 megatonnes of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere annually.

Peatlands store 100 years of CO2 emissions May 8, 2007 The UN Convention on Climate Change is putting global climate at risk by ignoring carbon dioxide emissions from the destruction of carbon - rich peatlands in Indonesia, charged Wetlands International, a Dutch environmental group that has highlighted the climate impact of land - use change in southeast Asia.

«Peatlands in Malaysia and Indonesia store around 70 gigatons of carbon — if all of this were oxidized, it would be equivalent to seven years of total global carbon dioxide emissions at the current rate.»