Climate impacts in northern forests
Northern forests hold around 54% of the world’s total terrestrial carbon stock and contribute more than one-third to our global terrestrial carbon sink. This report reviews the impact of human induced
Carbon Sinks
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Bamboo resource and its role in ecological security
Rapid and alarming deterioration in natural environment has become a matter of great concern for the entire globe. Exploding population, industrialization, man-made pollution, loss of forests, etc are
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Have we got it right on meat and greenhouse gas emissions???
Analysis showing lower greenhouse gas emissions associated with intensive livestock production could pose a challenge to our views on best farming practice?.
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Compensation for the conversion of sloping farmland to forest in China: A feasibility study of payment based on carbon sink
Although China extended the length of compensation for the Upland Conversion Program (UCP), the sustainability of the program after government compensation expires is still a pending problem. This article proposes an alternative scheme of compensation payment based on the carbon sink of the UCP.
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Going, going... how weve shrunk our water bodies & how well suffer
JAYANTA BASU AND SOUMEN BHATTACHARJEE Team Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Team Mamata Banerjee have formed a mahajot (grand alliance)
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Anthropogenic carbon dioxide transport in the Southern Ocean driven by Ekman flow
The Southern Ocean is potentially a substantial sink of anthropogenic carbon dioxide; however, the regulation of this carbon sink by the wind-driven Ekman flow, mesoscale eddies and their interaction is under debate.
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Natural Solutions: protected areas helping people cope with climate change
Protected Areas offer a cost effective solution to the impacts of climate change, according to IUCN, The Nature Conservancy, the United Nations Development Programme, Wildlife Conservation Society, the World Bank and WWF.
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Global perspectives of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies in emerging countries
CCS is often viewed to be a bridging technology into a future in which renewable energy sources prevail and energy is used as efficiently as possible. Before this future can be reached, emissions from coal-fired power plants and other fossil fuel sources have to be reduced to the greatest extent possible. For the time being, however, use of coal is on the rise. Such
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India: taking on climate change - 24 recent initiatives related to climate change
A snapshot of recent initiatives being undertaken by India on climate change.
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Forestry carbon market on cards
Rajiv Tikoo New Delhi: Irrespective of the outcome of the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen, the stage is set for creation a forestry carbon market, says Pavan Sukhdev, study leader, The Economics of Ecosystem and Biodiversity (TEEB).
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The impacts of climate change on the Tibetan Plateau: A synthesis of recent science and Tibetan research
This comprehensive report surveys the full range of scientific findings on all aspects of climate change on the Tibetan Plateau. Summarises over 150 recent research reports published in scientific journals, by Chinese and international scientists.