{"id":51836,"date":"2019-09-04T10:50:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T05:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?page_id=51836"},"modified":"2019-09-04T10:50:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T05:20:34","slug":"answered-the-recent-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change-ipcc-report-on-climate-change-and-land-highlight-that-unless-land-is-managed-in-a-sustainable-manner-it-w","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-the-recent-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change-ipcc-report-on-climate-change-and-land-highlight-that-unless-land-is-managed-in-a-sustainable-manner-it-w\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] \u201cThe recent, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on \u2018Climate Change and Land\u2019 highlight that unless land is managed in a sustainable manner, it will be difficult for humanity to prevent climate change.\u201d Discuss."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Demand of the question<\/strong>
Introduction.<\/strong> Contextual Introduction.
Body. <\/strong>Major findings of the report. Why land management is important for prevention of climate change?
Conclusion. <\/strong>Way forward. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

Land provides the principal basis for human livelihoods and well-being including the supply of food, freshwater and multiple other ecosystem services, as well as biodiversity. Human use directly affects more than 70% of the global land surface. Land also plays an important role in the climate system.  Since the pre-industrial period, changes in land cover due to human activities have led to both a net release of CO2 contributing to global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Major findings of the report:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. About 23% of global human-caused\ngreenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture, forestry and other land uses. <\/li>
  2. Despite increased deforestation and\nother land use changes, the world\u2019s lands are removing more emissions than they\nemit. Deforestation and land degradation, though, will chip away this carbon\nsink.<\/li>
  3. This warming has already had\ndevastating impacts on the land, including wildfires, changes to rainfall and\nheat waves. Further impacts will impair land\u2019s ability to act as a carbon sink.\n<\/li>
  4. Several land-based climate\nsolutions can reduce emissions and\/or remove carbon from the atmosphere. The\nlargest potential for reducing emissions from the land sector is from curbing\ndeforestation and forest degradation.<\/li>
  5. In addition to reducing emissions,\nthe land sector can also remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The report\nfound that afforestation and reforestation have the greatest carbon removal\npotential.<\/li>
  6. In particular, land-based climate\nsolutions that require large land areas could threaten food security and\nexacerbate environmental problems.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Why land management is\nimportant for prevention of climate change?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Land provides the basis for many\necosystem functions and services including cultural and regulating services,\nthat are essential for humanity. Worlds\u2019 terrestrial ecosystem services have\nbeen valued on an annual basis to be approximately equivalent to the annual\nglobal Gross Domestic Product.<\/li>
    2. Land is both a source and a sink of\ngreenhouse gases (GHGs) and plays a key role in the exchange of energy, water\nand aerosols between the land surface and atmosphere.<\/li>
    3. Land ecosystems and biodiversity\nare vulnerable to ongoing climate change and weather and climate extremes, to\ndifferent extents. <\/li>
    4. Sustainable land management can\ncontribute to reducing the negative impacts of multiple stressors, including\nclimate change, on ecosystems and societies.<\/li>
    5. Global models found increase in CO2\nemissions from land use and land-use change during 2007-16. These net emissions\nare mostly due to deforestation, partly offset by afforestation\/reforestation,\nand emissions and removals by other land use activities. Desertification\namplifies global warming through the release of CO2 linked with the decrease in\nvegetation cover.<\/li>
    6. Changes in land conditions, either\nfrom land-use or climate change, affect global and regional climate. At the\nregional scale, changing land conditions can reduce or accentuate warming and\naffect the intensity, frequency and duration of extreme events.<\/li>
    7. Changes in forest cover for example\nfrom afforestation, reforestation and deforestation, directly affect regional\nsurface temperature through exchanges of water and energy. Increased\nevapotranspiration can result in cooler days during the growing season and can\nreduce the amplitude of heat related events. <\/li>
    8. Both global warming and\nurbanisation can enhance warming in cities and their surroundings (heat island\neffect), especially during heat related events, including heat waves. Increased\nurbanisation put pressure on land that can also intensify extreme rainfall\nevents over the city or downwind of urban areas.<\/li>
    9. The forest and land use measures\ncould reduce net carbon emissions by the equivalent of 10-20% of projected\nfossil fuel emissions through 2050. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Forestry and land use practices hold considerable potential for counteracting the effect of greenhouse gas emissions, helping to prevent significant climate change. These practices include focusing on planting trees, preserving and properly managing forests, and changing cultivation practices to account for increased carbon storage in the soil. Such practices could make it possible to increase carbon sinks while further reducing the emission of greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Demand of the question Introduction. Contextual Introduction. Body. Major findings of the report. Why land management is important for prevention of climate change? Conclusion. Way forward. Land provides the principal basis for human livelihoods and well-being including the supply of food, freshwater and multiple other ecosystem services, as well as biodiversity. Human use directly affects… Continue reading [Answered] \u201cThe recent, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on \u2018Climate Change and Land\u2019 highlight that unless land is managed in a sustainable manner, it will be difficult for humanity to prevent climate change.\u201d Discuss.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":49132,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51836","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}