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BL
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690033
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b512222
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Trumper, Kate.
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| Title & Author
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The natural fix? : : the role of ecosystems in climate mitigation : a UNEP rapid response assessment /\ Kate Trumper ... [and others].
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, U.K. :: United Nations Environment Programme,, 2009.
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65 pages :: color illustrations, color maps ;; 21 cm
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8277010575
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: 9788277010571
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| Notes
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"June 2009"--P. 2 of cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-65).
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Carbon management in natural ecosystems -- Carbon management in human-dominated ecosystems -- The impacts of future climate change on ecosystem carbon -- Opportunities and challenges -- Conclusions.
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| Abstract
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The report describes the vital contribution that ecosystems can and must make in our efforts to cut very large emissions of greenhouse gases that are needed if we are to avoid the worst effects of global climate change. Vigorous efforts are needed to decrease carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere and doing so will be impossible without addressing carbon losses from ecosystems such as forests and peatlands. Managing ecosystems for carbon can not only reduce carbon emissions; it can also actively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Restoring some of the large amounts of carbon lost from agricultural soils and drylands has the greatest potential here.--Publisher's description.
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Carbon sequestration.
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Climatic changes.
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Greenhouse gas mitigation.
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SD387.C37T785 2009
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Trumper, Kate.
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UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
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UNEP/GRID-Arendal.
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United Nations Environment Programme.
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