Bengaluru: One of the main takeaways so far in COP26 in Glasgow has been an appointment – by more than 100 leaders – to end deforestation at the end of this decade.
Countries including India have stayed away from this declaration though, those who have taken the promise together accounted for around 85% of world forests.
While experts and world leaders have talked about the need to reduce deforestation as a strategy of climate change mitigation, the loss of tree cover continues throughout the world.
And, data and imaging from the Global Forest Watch analyzed in the latest research published by the journal Nature earlier this year shows that the loss of tropical trees has caused an average annual CO2 equivalent emission of 5.3 gigatons between statistics, a global company specializing In the data, it shows that the average annual CO2 equivalent emissions – due to tropical deforestation – almost 2 gigatons more than Indian annual emissions which are estimated at 3.4 gigatons.
The company has also used data from the World Resources Institute.
In fact, if tropical deforestation is a country, it will have the third largest carbon footprint in the world after China and the US, when excluding the effects of changes in land use and forestry (see graph).
Studies in Nature, accessed by TOI, have 17 authors / researchers from the US, the Netherlands and Indonesia.
And, in the conclusion of their research, the author said: “Our analysis strengthens the need to reduce gross emissions from tropical deforestation as a climate change mitigation strategy, while also highlighting substantial contributions but is often less valued from secondary and older secondary forests that are intact for removing carbon dioxide .
“It shows that measuring gross emissions and transfer separately and consistently in all of the forest land – and producing maps in addition to table statistics – increasing transparency in accounting factors and geographies that contribute to the global net forest grg flux, they add that it also provides a source integrating framework New data and increase from time to time and that the government that is spatially attracted prioritizes the implementation and tracking of national and subnational forest mitigation targets can further utilize the data.
“Non-government actors, such as companies that aim to reduce emissions from deforestation associated with commodity supply chains and developing market mechanisms considering the inclusion of forests for carbon offset programs, can benefit from a forest monitoring system that is consistent and spatially developed using The same.
Methods are internationally accepted as the National Government of Use but based on independent observations and with GHK estimates that can be associated with individual actions and are produced on a scale that is relevant to various policies, programs and stakeholders related to research.
They say that as capacity The national government to collect, process and analyze data continues to increase, the global carbon monitoring framework introduced here can help improve transparency, inform the initiative of climate policy and the implementation of it Forest t, independent technical assessment, reconciliation of differences between national reports and scientific studies, and provide a more consistent and comparable basis for tracking progress on a local scale and to assess the atmospheric impact of global forest changes under the upcoming Global Stockte30 of the Paris Agreement.
‘Tropical deforestation causes almost 2 gigatons more CO2 / year than India’
