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Forests, agricultural lands can reduce global warming?

Posted on janvier 17th, 2007 by Globalwarming awareness2007.
Categories: globalwarming.

Forests, agricultural lands, and other terrestrial ecosystem offer significant carbon mitigation potential. Although not necessarily permanent, conservation and sequestration of carbon may allow time for other options to be further developed and implemented.

We have awareness of biological mitigation can occur by three strategies:

1. conservation of existing carbon pools,
2. sequestration by increasing the size of carbon pools,
3. substitution of sustainably produced biological products, e.g. wood for energy intensive construction products and biomass for fossil fuels.

Conservation of threatened carbon pools may help to avoid emissions, if leakage can be prevented, and can only become sustainable if the socio-economic drivers for deforestation and other losses of carbon pools can be addressed. Sequestration reflects the biological dynamics of growth, often starting slowly, passing through a maximum in 2007, and then declining over decades to centuries.

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