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Climategate: even skeptics win, deforestation still happen

  By iip | October 9, 2011 - 3:28 am | Forest
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Climategate could be the hottest climate debate which will undermine the global effort of earth cooling. Climate skeptics may not believe on man-made global warming, thus buzzing scientist’s hacked email emphasizing the poor quality of scientific works that was done. Will Climategate attract more politicians, activists and campaigners in the Copenhagen meeting?

Wait, climategate is  in the centre of climate science, not on the area where greenhouse gasses are released: Sumatran forests. Recent news is coming from the green movement to stop deforestation from paper industry. They have been campaigning for years, resulting more paper consumers leaving papers from unsustainable forest.  Here some consumers from fashion industry that declaring it self not to use paper product from unsustainable forest of Indonesia –especially in the island where peatland forests restoring huge carbon:

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7 facts and findings about REDD

  By iip | October 8, 2011 - 3:27 pm | Forest
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Reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) is one of recent global mechanisms that expected by developing countries to help in conserving forests, combat climate change as well as eradicate poverty.

Public may aware on deforestation and its impact on climate change. But, halting the deforestation process isn’t simply as people reducing plastic consumption.

Scientists, negotiators as well as activists are searching best ways and practice to address three principles: carbon effectiveness, cost efficiency, and equity issues on both investors and beneficiaries.  I list some interesting figures around reducing emission from deforestation below: (more…)

Deforestation and C02 emissions

  By iip | September 22, 2011 - 3:27 pm | Forest
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As experts says, deforestation is estimated to be responsible for around 20 percent of all human-induced CO2 emissions. Most of this effect being happen in tropical forest. However this figure is highly uncertain. According to 2007 GTZ report, the reasons are:

  • There is a notorious lack in reliable forest inventories.
  • the ascertainment of deforestation depends on the diverging definitions of forests
  • Greenhouse gas emissions from forest degradation (i.e. vegetation loss inside a standing forest) are difficult to estimate, and there is no single accepted definition of it Re-growth after deforestation
  • N2O and CH4 emissions due to forest fires have not yet been quantified on a global scale, but they contribute in a significant way to the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

What do you think? Should we give priority to avoiding deforestation?

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