Protected areas: an effective tool to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries
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RT Generic T1 Protected areas: an effective tool to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries A1 United Nations Environment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre (United Nations Environment Programme-WCMC) YR 2008 LK http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11822/8554 PB UNEP AB TY - GEN T1 - Protected areas: an effective tool to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries AU - United Nations Environment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre (United Nations Environment Programme-WCMC) Y1 - 2008 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11822/8554 PB - UNEP AB - @misc{20.500.11822_8554 author = {United Nations Environment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre (United Nations Environment Programme-WCMC)}, title = {Protected areas: an effective tool to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries}, year = {2008}, abstract = {}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11822/8554} } @misc{20.500.11822_8554 author = {United Nations Environment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre (United Nations Environment Programme-WCMC)}, title = {Protected areas: an effective tool to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries}, year = {2008}, abstract = {}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11822/8554} } TY - GEN T1 - Protected areas: an effective tool to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries AU - United Nations Environment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre (United Nations Environment Programme-WCMC) UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11822/8554 PB - UNEP AB -Metadata
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Forests play a key role in the global carbon cycle, absorbing and storing carbon in their biomass and soils. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) discussions on reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) in developing countries result from a recognition of the substantial greenhouse gas emissions resulting from deforestation, especially in the tropics. Depending on the method of forest clearing and the subsequent use of the felled trees and land, deforestation not only releases the carbon stored in the above ground biomass, but leads to decomposition of roots and mobilization of soil carbon.
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