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Global Mercury Assessment
… practices. Our distribution policy aims to reduce UNEP’s carbon footprint. Lay-out and technical production … emissions from coal-burning power plants, helping to offset most of the increase arising from higher … mercury emissions from coal burning sectors and thus offset some part of the emissions arising from …
Climate Change and POPs: Predicting the Impacts
… result in an increase in primary emissions that could offset some of the efforts undertaken to reduce emissions of … climate change mitigation options targeted to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, such as improvement of energy … these changes may be offset by the effects of increased carbon dioxide that could reduce the activity of plant …
Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences
… . . . . . 359 4.2 Impacts and effects of ocean warming on carbon management including methane hydrates . . . . . . . … altered as it absorbed significant amounts of the extra carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere, but it has also … greenhouse gas and relatively small rates of release can offset large rates of CO2 sequestration (Poffenbarger et al., …
A moving target : Genetic resources and options for tracking and monitoring their international flows
… modifying genotypes” (though this increase is partially offset by a decrease in the class “plant reproduction by … for samples does not generate sufficient revenues to offset the opportunity costs of conservation; and 4) hence, … develop similar institutions to regulate the use of the “carbon trading” mechanisms created under the Kyoto …