Sentence examples for stores of carbon from inspiring English sources
This commitment was largely motivated by the opportunity to protect the forest's enormous stores of carbon.
It absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, making it one of the world's biggest stores of carbon dioxide, along with the oceans and the world's forests.
Pipeline opponents say the project will unlock vast stores of carbon, overwhelming Obama's other efforts to cut emissions that cause climate change.
If the artificial temperature rise is pushed beyond two degrees, the earth's natural stores of carbon will break down – and be released into the atmosphere.
In one example attributed to research by Mr. Searchinger, the committee wrote: "Clearing or cutting forests for bioenergy crops releases large stores of carbon into the atmosphere and may reduce ongoing carbon sequestration if the forest was otherwise still growing.
In the letter, companies and investors, along with nonprofit sustainability advocacy group Ceres, ask the RSPO to do more to conserve so-called "high carbon stock areas" – typically rainforests that hold large stores of carbon – and protect carbon-rich organic soils known as peatlands.
A major achievement so far is a broad consensus that beginning in the industrial era humans, by burning ancient buried stores of carbon-rich coal and oil, have liberated billions of tons of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, warming earth.
Opponents of the pipeline say it will open up the vast store of carbon in the Alberta tar sands.
Campaign groups argued it would open up a vast store of carbon and tie North America more closely to a fossil fuel future.
"The clouds on Venus are made of sulphuric acid and they keep the planet's vast store of carbon dioxide, which produces its intense greenhouse heating, trapped underneath," says Wilson.
Forests protection is crucial to an ambitious deal at Copenhagen because it will not only save up to 20% of emissions which come from deforestation, but the forests provide a massive store of carbon against which countries can offset emissions at home.
