If we stop Climate change is now a time of reckoning is how we use the planet, warns UN report

The human relationship with the earth on which we live has walked the planet over the hundreds of thousands of years, evolved humans, but does not have time to see a drastic change in the last century, when the land people used in a new way to wealth extract and build a modern economy. Now, a new report of the landmark UN warns people face a moment of reckoning, as we use the country planet threaten human practices such as deforestation, the role of undermining nature has played absorb dioxide emissions carbon for more than a century. At the same time, climate change could threaten to use the land our ability, threatening food security and vulnerable communities at risk of extreme weather events. “While we continue to have to pay more and more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the Earth System has responded and there is still more and absorb more,” says Louis Verchot, a lead author of the study and a scientist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture. But “this additional gift of nature is limited. It is not always going to continue” Today emissions from land use -. Think about practices such as agriculture and logging – because almost a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions of human origin, according to the report, written by scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body climate science. However, the country has offset other parts of the world, the impact of these emissions. In recent years, forests, wetlands and other terrestrial systems 11.2 gigatons were absorbed more carbon dioxide emitting annually. And ‘it published an increased amount of carbon dioxide than coal-fired plants in the world per year. But threatened a full set of human practices, including deforestation, soil degradation and destruction of terrestrial ecosystems to stop this trend, perhaps the country went to the carbon dioxide it absorbs. Environmentalists asked to consider the report as a wake up call. Some focused much attention to climate change to move the global energy system, but to hold off the heater will require nature-based solutions that consider how people use land, say climate scientists. The report – to more than 1,300 pages long – contains a number of opportunties to reverse the trend of land use. And many of the solutions are already in hand, if governments have the resources to implement it. “We should not wait for a new kind of technological innovation,” explains lead author Pamela McElwee study, associate professor of human ecology at Rutgers University. “But what some of these solutions require attention, financial support, so that environments.” Reducing deforestation, while the forest recovery rate significantly are among the most urgent solutions to keep the hope of rising temperatures to rise to disastrous levels to maintain until the end of the century. Reducing deforestation of the annual emissions only stop to twice as high as the Indian equivalent, scientists have found. The report also shows how emissions from agriculture to rethink an important contribution to climate change, and the ability to deal with diet. As global demand has grown for food, they have manufacturers of processed foods forests into agricultural land, stored in a release of carbon dioxide in hollow trees. It is at the same time, wasted more than a quarter of the food, according to the report. With these trends in mind, the scientists say that a way could shift from meat eating plant-eating big dividends in the fight against climate change arise. Reduced meat consumption means reducing emissions from livestock and fertilizer required to maintain, but also provides the ability to reforest lands that farmers are otherwise used for grazing. Rethinking the human diet in the world could reduce emissions by up to eight gigatons per year, according to more than a year to report emissions in the United States but, as these changes are technically feasible, there are a number of obstacles to unity adoption . For larger emission reductions to be achieved by shifting diet most of the world would require you to go vegan, for example, it requires a struggle against agricultural interests and entrenched cultural preferences. And despite years of research, deforestation underlines the risk practice has deteriorated in some of the most critical areas. In recent years it has been rain in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil and Colombia, the National with a recent report by the Brazilian Institute for the exhibition the search space accelerated deforestation that the practice had increased by 40% in the two previous months in the same period compared the year before, and while this figure alone is alarming, so the response of the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, which contested the figures and fired the head of deforestation government agency commissioned to collect data. “Cause or disclosure of inaccurate numbers, the great damage to the image of Brazil.” “We can not be able to accept grandstanding,” said Bolsonaro who denied the science of climate change, according to an agency AFP news report, the new IPCC report comes less than a year after the 2018 report on the impact body negative 1.5 ° C warming that climate change has warned catastrophic proportions also the port level heating. In his wake students he walked out of school around the world, some accumulated US emissions and activists in a green new deal to reduce obliged governments, all of the report of the effects of the citation. Similar to last year, the new IPCC report shows a series of shocking risks. The surface temperature on Earth has warmed by 1.5 ° C since the beginning of the industrial era, and continued warming threatens a number of extreme weather events because, while food security at risk and needs other essentials for human life. If this signal a wave of similar remains of stimulating action to see.
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