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Protecting rainforests could sequester eqivalent of a third of global emissions annually

2014-06-13 23:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Eliminating deforestation, peatlands and forest degradation, and forest fires in the tropics could reduce global carbon emissions by two billion tons a year, or nearly a fifth, argues a new study published in Global Change Biology. The research, authored by John Grace and Edward Mitchard of the University of Edinburgh and Emanuel Gloor of the University of Leeds, analyzed various emissions sources and sinks across the tropics. They found that carbon emissions from activities that damage and destroy...

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