Posted on 27 April 2009 by takecover08
Forests’ role as massive carbon sinks is “at risk of being lost entirely”, the BBC’s Mark Kinver has reported top forestry scientists as warning.
The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) says forests are under increasing degrees of stress as a result of climate change.
Forests could release vast amounts of carbon if temperatures rise 2.5C [...]
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Posted on 5 January 2009 by takecover08
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon forests has flipped from a decreasing to an increasing trend, ScienceDaily reports.
Commenting on the figures released by the country’s space agency INPE, Brazilian environment minister Carlos Minc confirmed that the government was set to announce forest related carbon emission reduction targets.
He added that he hoped that the scheme would link halting [...]
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Posted on 12 December 2008 by takecover08
A shrinking glacier in northern Sweden has revealed remains of trees believed to be at least 7,000 years old, a team from the Swedish Research Council reports.
The researchers say the remains of the trees – found beneath the Karsa Glacier, west of Abisko, Lapland – are evidence that the past century has been the [...]
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Posted on 16 October 2008 by takecover08
The international community should enable tropical forest nations to halve the rate of deforestation by 2020.
The assertion was among the recommendations made in an independent report commissioned by the UK prime minister.
The Eliasch Review, entitled Climate Change: Financing Global Forests, also said that industrialised nations should look to make the global forest sector “carbon neutral” [...]
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Posted on 12 September 2008 by takecover08
A Swedish MEP has said that the EU climate policy package’s failure to address the role of forests in curbing global warming was a “major mistake”, reports the EurActiv website.
Liberal MEP Lena Ek made her comments during a meeting of the European Parliament’s Industry Committee.
Her views were seconded by Irish Christian Democrat MEP Avril Doyle, [...]
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Posted on 26 August 2008 by takecover08
The latest round of UN climate talks in Ghana are making progress on ways to help developing nations slow deforestation, reports Alister Doyle, Reuter’s environment correspondent.
He added that delegates said the talks had also eased disputes over use of greenhouse gas targets for industrial sectors.
“It’s moving pretty well now,” Yvo de Boer, head of the [...]
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