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ESA backs incentives for developing countries avoiding deforestation

23 November 2006

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Every year hectares of rainforest are cut down releasing millions of tonnes of carbon emissions into the atmosphere.

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ESA group at COP 12

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This 30 May 2006 image of the Xingu River in Brazil was acquired by Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS). It clearly highlights the contrast between the rainforest and sprawling urbanisation.

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The carbon cycle is the term for the flow of carbon between the atmosphere, land, ocean and biosphere. Increasing knowledge of the carbon cycle is important for the study of climate change. Human activities are releasing increased amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, causing the atmosphere to heat up. Around half of this surplus carbon dioxide is then taken up in carbon 'sinks' on the land and sea surface, mitigating the extent of global warming - at least for now. Carbon modellers seek to better understand the carbon 'flux' between the surface and atmosphere within the carbon cycle.

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Changes in land-use and forest will be mapped from EO data.

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ESA Side Event at COP 12

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