Tutkimuksen on tehnyt Jakartassa sijaitseva Kansainvälinen metsäntutkimuskeskus (CIFOR), ja se julkistetaan YK:n ilmastomuutoskokouksessa Poznanissa, Puolassa joulukuun alussa. Suomalainen CIFORin metsäekologi ja akatemiatutkija Markku Kanninen, raportin toinen kirjoittaja, sanoi uutistoimisto Reuterille, että monissa metsissä pienilläkin ilmastonmuutoksilla saattaa olla tuhoisia vaikutuksia.
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2008
Insurers uneasy about underwriting trees for carbon credit
Forest owners want full access to credits. But insurers suggest half should be retained in buffer funds in case forests vanish in a few decades. If a forest disappeared, credits in the funds would go to the insurers.”How much land managers will see of the price is what the excitement is about,” said Frances Seymour, the head of the Centre for International Forestry Research in Indonesia. Placing a value on forests could give developing nations in Africa, Latin America and Asia a big incentive to do more to slow rising greenhouse gas emissions. But the economic slowdown may make rich nations reluctant to take part.
Climate change puts forests and people at risk, adaptation needed to avert crisis
Unless immediate action is taken, climate change could have a devastating effect on the world’s forests and the nearly 1 billion people who depend on them for their livelihoods, warned a leading group of forest scientists in a report to be released next week.
The researchers from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) called for the implementation of adaptation measures to reduce the vulnerability of forests and forestdependent communities that will experience an unprecedented combination of climate change-associated disturbances like flooding, drought, wildfire, and other environmental challenges in the next 100 years.
Forests under threat – study
The report, by the Jakarta-based Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), urged delegates at a UN climate meeting in Poznan, Poland, from December 1-12 to work out new ways to safeguard forests in developing nations. It said climate change could have impacts ranging from a drying out of cloud forests in mountainous regions of Central America – making wildfires more frequent – to swamping mangroves in Asia as seas rise. “Unless immediate action is taken, climate change could have a devastating effect on the world’s forests and the nearly one billion people who depend on them for their livelihoods,” a statement said.
Forests Are Vulnerable to Climate Change Effects
A new report released by Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), a Jakarta-based initiative, urges the leaders of the world to act swiftly for the prevention of global warming, so as to save the world’s forests from threats posed by climate change. The study is addressed to the delegates of the 190 nations meeting in Poznan, Poland, December 1 to 12.
World’s forests may be devastated by climate change
A group of forest scientists has warned that unless immediate action is taken, climate change could have a devastating effect on the world’s forests and the nearly 1 billion people who depend on them for their livelihoods. The researchers, from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), called for the implementation of adaptation measures to reduce the vulnerability of forests and forestdependent communities that will experience an unprecedented combination of climate change associated disturbances like flooding, drought, wildfire, and other environmental challenges in the next 100 years. According to “Facing an Uncertain Future: How Forests and People can Adapt to Climate Change”, a new book by CIFOR, immediate measures must be taken now to adapt forests to climate change.
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Le changement climatique menace les forêts
Les forêts sont extrêmement vulnérables au changement climatique qui risque d’entraîner davantage de feux de forêt et d’inondation et des mesures sont à prendre rapidement pour aider les personnes pauvres qui dépendent des forêts, affirme une étude rendue publique jeudi.L’étude, réalisée par le Centre pour la Recherche internationale sur les forêts (CIFOR) basé à Djakarta, invite les délégués réunis du 1 au 12 décembre à Poznan, en Pologne, pour une réunion de l’Onu consacrée au climat à rechercher de nouvelles manières de protéger les forêts dans les pays en développement.
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Forests under threat – study
Forests are extremely vulnerable to climate change that is set to bring more wildfires and floods and quick action is needed to aid millions of poor people who depend on forests, a study said on Thursday. The report, by the Jakarta-based Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), urged delegates at a UN climate meeting in Poznan, Poland, from December 1-12 to work out new ways to safeguard forests in developing nations. It said climate change could have impacts ranging from a drying out of cloud forests in mountainous regions of Central America – making wildfires more frequent – to swamping mangroves in Asia as seas rise.