Taken from EESI’s daily Climate Change News update.
Forests Absorb One Third of Fossil Fuel Emissions, Study Finds
ScienceDaily (Aug. 9, 2011) — The world’s established forests remove 2.4 billion tonnes of carbon per year from the atmosphere — equivalent to one third of current annual fossil fuel emissions — according to new research published in the journal Science.
This is the first time volumes of the greenhouse gas absorbed from the atmosphere by tropical, temperate and boreal forests have been so clearly identified.
“This is really a timely breakthrough with which we can now clearly demonstrate how forests and changes in landscape such as wildfire or forest regrowth impact the removal or release of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2),” says CSIRO co-author of the paper, Dr Pep Canadell.
“What this research tells us is that forests play a much larger role as carbon sinks as a result of tree growth and forest expansion.”
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Is this true. In such matter, why dont developed governments support thirdworld countries with political support and economical will in making frorests a source of life, in this i mean, like here in Uganda the president has issued a statement to give away one of the left forest in the centrol region to sugar company Madivan]. The whole country is disagreing but we dont know if he will come down on this matter, is there a way how developed activist can join the hands with the peoples out cry