Climate change

On the Copenhagen Agenda, Reducing Deforestation May Still Succeed

This month, the journal Nature Geoscience published a study calculating that deforestation is responsible for about 15% of global carbon emissions, down from earlier estimates of 20% or more. Most of the world's deforestation is concentrated in a few tropical nations, like Brazil and Indonesia where trees are disappearing fast — when these trees die or are burned, they release into the atmosphere all the carbon they've sucked up while they were alive. According to the Nature Geoscience study, the problem of deforestation is becoming a lot less dire than previously thought.

Is Earth's Capacity To Absorb CO2 Much Greater Than Expected?

The research, by Bristol University, suggests that despite rising emissions, the world is is still able to store a significant amount of greenhouse gases in oceans and forests.

Mini ice age took hold of Europe in months

JUST months - that's how long it took for Europe to be engulfed by an ice age. The scenario, which comes straight out of Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, was revealed by the most precise record of the climate from palaeohistory ever generated.

Ever thought about on how climate negotiations are be done?

At 8am on Wednesday 7 October, a smartly dressed fiftysomething Filipino woman took the escalator to the first floor of the UN building in Bangkok and merged into a throng of diplomats, civil servants and environmentalists arriving for the eighth day of the ninth session of the global climate talks. She was met with a few respectful nods.

CO2 from forest destruction overestimated?

The carbon dioxide emissions caused by the destruction of tropical forests have been significantly overestimated, according to a new study. The work could undermine attempts to pay poor countries to protect forests as a cost-effective way to tackle global warming.

The loss of forests in countries such as Brazil and Indonesia is widely assumed to account for about 20% of all carbon dioxide produced by human activity – more than the world's transport system. The 20% figure was published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007 and was widely quoted after being highlighted by the Stern review on the economics of the problem. It is repeatedly used by Prince Charles and others as an incentive to push efforts to include forests in carbon trading.

Curbing emissions from deforestation is one of the main issues being discussed at a UN climate meeting in Barcelona this week, before crucial talks in Copenhagen next month.

EU has agreed to accept burden sharing on climate change mitigation

The EU is reportedly willing to begin its funding next year, although a new global climate deal replacing the Kyoto Protocol is not expected to become effective before 2013. The new EU move is an attempt to signal willingness to reach a global deal at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in December.

According to the web edition of the Danish daily, Politiken, the European Union suggests a global sum of annually five to seven billion euro during the period 2010-2012. EU expects to fund around a third of the total amount.

Emissions from forest loss overstated

THE recent climate talks in Bangkok, Thailand, highlighted the clear differences between developing countries and some developed countries and NGOs on forestry.

The planet never needed more than now world forestry management

World Forestry Congress produces a message to be presented at COP 15
in Copenhagen

EU Position for the Copenhage Climate Conference

The European Union has published it's Position for the Copenhave Climate Conference.

Here are the Forests related parts.

Forestry needs new markets and new products

The new deputy minister of forestry in Ontario says the old days of the forestry industry are over and the leaders and the workers of that industry have to look for new directions and new ideas if the North is to profit from the vast quantities of wood fibre that remainin our

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Climate change

On the Copenhagen Agenda, Reducing Deforestation May Still Succeed

Is Earth's Capacity To Absorb CO2 Much Greater Than Expected?

Mini ice age took hold of Europe in months

Ever thought about on how climate negotiations are be done?

CO2 from forest destruction overestimated?

EU has agreed to accept burden sharing on climate change mitigation

Emissions from forest loss overstated

The planet never needed more than now world forestry management

EU Position for the Copenhage Climate Conference

Forestry needs new markets and new products

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On the Copenhagen Agenda, Reducing Deforestation May Still Succeed

Is Earth's Capacity To Absorb CO2 Much Greater Than Expected?

Mini ice age took hold of Europe in months

Ever thought about on how climate negotiations are be done?

CO2 from forest destruction overestimated?

EU has agreed to accept burden sharing on climate change mitigation

Emissions from forest loss overstated

The planet never needed more than now world forestry management

EU Position for the Copenhage Climate Conference

Forestry needs new markets and new products

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