{"id":86912,"date":"2019-08-09T17:55:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T12:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9017"},"modified":"2019-08-09T17:55:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T12:25:51","slug":"how-land-relates-to-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/how-land-relates-to-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"How land relates to climate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)\nhas recently released a report titled Climate Change and Land\u2019 which shows how\nland based activities affect climate and in turn gets affected by climate\nchange.<\/li><li>Land acts as both the source as well as a sink\nof carbon. Activities like agriculture and livestock rearing release greenhouse\ngases such as methane and nitrous oxide and contribute to global warming.<\/li><li>Further, soil, trees, plantations, and forests\nabsorb carbon dioxide for the natural process of photosynthesis, thus reducing\nthe overall carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere.<\/li><li>Nearly, 50% of all carbon dioxide generated from\nthe earth is trapped by land and oceans and the rest is released into the\natmosphere. Through the process of carbon cycle, CO2 is continuously exchanged\nbetween the land, ocean and atmosphere.<\/li><li>Largescale land use changes, like deforestation,\nurbanisation, or change in cropping pattern, have a direct impact on the\noverall emissions of greenhouse gases.<\/li><li>Climate change also impact land in various ways.\nClimate change contributes to land degradation through gradual changes in\ntemperature and rainfall patterns. For example, in central India, there has\nbeen a threefold increase in widespread extreme rain events during 1950-2015,\nwhich has influenced several land degradation processes<\/li><li>Climate change also affects agriculture through\nincreased warming, changing rainfall patterns and increased frequency of\nextreme weather events. <\/li><li>Afforestation, halting deforestation are\nimportant aspects for combating climate change. India as a part of its\nNationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement has pledged to create\nan additional carbon sink of about 2.5 billion to 3 billion tonnes by the year\n2032 by increasing its forest cover, and planting more trees.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recently released a report titled Climate Change and Land\u2019 which shows how land based activities affect climate and in turn gets affected by climate change. Land acts as both the source as well as a sink of carbon. Activities like agriculture and livestock rearing release greenhouse gases such&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/how-land-relates-to-climate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How land relates to climate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4603],"class_list":["post-86912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change-and-land","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704841348},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=86912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}