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- Deforestation and Global Warming (ARIC)
Describes how the loss of forests causes global warming. 12-00
- Forest Protection (World Wide Fund for Nature)
Provides information on the deforestation of the planet. 1-01
- Global Patterns for a Sustainable Planet (Sustainable Development Information Database)
Provides global patterns on key issues, such as deforestation, pollution, global warming, and water conservation. 12-00
- Wood as Fuel (World Resources Institute)
Provides a summary of the known role that woodfuel plays in relationship to deforestation and poverty. 1-01
- Global Patterns of Forests (World Resources Institute)
Provides maps and factsheets regarding forests and deforestation globally. 1-01
- Forests Reduce Global Warming (World Resources Institute)
Forests absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in plants. Forests store about 40 percent of our carbon dioxide. Deforestation accounts for an equivalent of 25 percent of the emissions from fossil fuel combustion. 1-01
- 06-28-03 "Lungs of the World" in Trouble (MSNBC)
"The deforestation rate in Brazil’s Amazon, the world’s largest jungle, has jumped 40 percent, sparking alarm among environmentalists and a promise by the government to launch emergency measures."
"The Amazon, an area of continuous tropical forest that is larger than Western Europe, has been described as the 'lungs of the world' because of its vast capacity to produce oxygen."
"Environmentalists fear its destruction because it is home to up to 30 percent of the planet’s animal and plant species and is an important source of medicines." 6-03
- 07-04-03 Rainforests Set to Disappear (Independent)
"The scale of deforestation is so great that some countries, such as Indonesia, could lose entire rainforests in the next 10 years." 7-03
- 500-Year Plan to Save the Rainforests (RAN.org)
"The world's deforestation to date and its rate of increase have given rise to a state of global emergency. Yet an effective response to this problem could, more than anything else, help us build a sustainable society in our lifetime. The 500 year six fold approach is offered as a framework to halt deforestation and its consequences."
The six-fold plan includes: Global Forest Protection, Certified Logging, Fiber Supply, Demand-Side Management, Transformation of Government & Corporation Policy, and Sustainable Economic Development. 11-04
- -05-12-06 Chopsticks and the Environment (USA Today)
"Supporters of environmental causes see the new Chinese tax as a chance to get rid of disposable chopsticks, which have been linked to deforestation and a wasteful lifestyle."
"Japan is China's largest export destination, while China is the third-largest market for Japanese goods, according to government figures."
"However, ties between the two countries have become increasingly strained amid a dispute over the ownership of undersea gas fields claimed by both." 05-06
- Editorial: It's Too Late for "Later" (New York Times)
"There was a chilling essay in The Jakarta Post last week by Andrio Adiwibowo, a lecturer in environmental management at the University of Indonesia. It was about how a smart plan to protect the mangrove forests around coastal Jakarta was never carried out, leading to widespread tidal flooding last month."
"This line jumped out at me: 'The plan was not implemented. Instead of providing a buffer zone, development encroached into the core zone, which was covered over by concrete.' "
"You could read that story in a hundred different developing countries today. But the fact that you read it here is one of the most important reasons that later has become extinct. Indonesia is second only to Brazil in terrestrial biodiversity and is No. 1 in the world in marine biodiversity. Just one and a half acres in Borneo contains more different tree species than all of North America — not to mention animals that don’t exist anywhere else on earth. If we lose them, there will be no later for some of the rarest plants and animals on the planet."
"Indonesia is now losing tropical forests the size of Maryland every year, and the carbon released by the cutting and clearing — much of it from illegal logging — has made Indonesia the third largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, after the United States and China. Deforestation actually accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars and trucks in the world, an issue the Bali conference finally addressed." 12-07
- Basics of Carbon Sequestration (EPA.gov)
"There are three general means by which agricultural and forestry practices can reduce greenhouse gases:"
" (1) avoiding emissions by maintaining existing carbon storage in trees and soils;"
" (2) increasing carbon storage by, e.g., tree planting, conversion from conventional to conservation tillage practices on agricultural lands;"
" (3) substituting bio-based fuels and products for fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, and energy-intensive products that generate greater quantities of CO2 when used."
"Forests and soils have a large influence on atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide (CO2)—the most important global warming gas emitted by human activities. Tropical deforestation is responsible for about 20% of the world's annual CO2 emissions (IPCC Special Report on LULUCF (2000)." 07-08
- Tree Loss Responsible for Carbon Emissions (Time.com)
"Tree loss accounts for at least 20% of global carbon emissions. What would help cap that output is an international market — similar to that in the power industry or manufacturing — that allows tropical nations to preserve their rainforests in exchange for selling the carbon emissions contained within them. That doesn't exist, in part because major tropical countries like Brazil and Indonesia have been reluctant to accept international carbon finance, for fear of losing control over their natural resources. But Indonesia — the world's third biggest carbon emitter, thanks chiefly to its high deforestation rates — now seems ready to open up. At California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's climate summit in November, Indonesian officials announced their government would set up a regulatory framework for carbon forestry programs, and signed an agreement with California to help shepherd those projects. Translation: Indonesia appears ready to help wealthy California help Indonesia preserve its rapidly dwindling rainforests — and the climate will benefit." 02-09
- -04-26-09 California Regulators Push for Low Carbon Intensity Fuels (SciTech.com)
"The California Air Resources Board (CARB) late Thursday approved the controversial Low Carbon Fuel Standard, which would force fuel producers to lower their 'carbon intensity' of their products by 10 percent by 2020."
"Makers of ethanol said the rating system unfairly ties their U.S.-made corn-based fuel to mass deforestation – not in the United States – but in developing nations. Ethanol critics say the entire biofuel industry should bear global responsibility for clearing of trees to make farmland to grow crops that will be used to make the fuel." 04-09
- Biomass Cook Stoves (TreeHugger.com)
"The problems: 1) Indoor air pollution in the developing world caused by cooking fires and sooty illumination results in an estimated 1.6 million deaths per year, 2) Deforestation resulting from over use of wood as an energy source causes serious ecosystem degradation in many parts of the developing world."
"A solution, as Envirofit sees it: New cookstoves, which while still burning biomass (wood, crop waste, dried animal dung) reduce indoor air pollution by 80%, reduce fuel usage by 50% and decrease cooking times by 40%."
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- Biochar Machine: Pyro 7 (Agribusiness-Solutions.com)
"The social impact [for the Pyro-7 machine] is evaluated in terms of numerous job creations. It improuves [sic] soil productivity when used as Biochar. It provides safe household energy. It generates added value from unused material. It generates carbon credits because it avoids methane emissions together with deforestation."
"As required by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for candidate Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects, Pro-Natura has evaluated the amount of GHG emission reductions (ERs) following conservative assumptions and demonstrating each step for the green charcoal (as used for fuel). This calculation resulted in 11.6 tons of CO2-equivalent per ton of green charcoal produced by a Pyro-7 machine."
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- Biochar Fund (BiocharFund.org)
"The Biochar Fund eradicates hunger, deforestation, energy insecurity and tackles climate change by connecting markets and the cooperative efforts of our farmers. It is important to understand that the problems described are deeply intertwined. Only by tackling their root causes in a systematic and integrated way is it possible to solve them. We do this by generating a unique synergy that interacts with all aspects of the different problems and that is managed by the communities themselves." 05-09
- -001 Report: Threat from Melting Permafrost (MSNBC News)
"Eventually, in between 15 and 50 years, those plants [absorbing the carbon from the melting permafrost] 'can't keep up' and get overwhelmed, said study lead author Ted Schuur, a University of Florida ecologist."
"At that point, a billion tons of carbon a year can be released into an atmosphere that is already warming because of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, cars, and other industrial activities, Schuur said. That would contribute the same amount to global warming as the deforestation of the tropics, he said."
"Making matters worse is that much of the gas trapped in permafrost is methane, which is more than 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide." 05-09
- -09-23-09 China, Not U.S., Stars at Climate Summit (MSNBC News)
"Although some 100 world leaders met Tuesday for a U.N. climate summit, most of the attention was on just two — President Barack Obama and China's Hu Jintao. Both vowed to take the threat of rising seas, drought and deforestation seriously, but only one had some momentum behind him and it wasn't Obama."
" 'China and India have announced very ambitious national climate change plans,' Yvo de Boer said. 'In the case of China, so ambitious that it could well become the front-runner in the fight to address climate change,' de Boer said. 'The big question mark is the U.S.' " 09-09
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