Long term impacts on the carbon cycle and management strategies

Question 1

Name some management stratagies

Answer 1

Wetland restoration
Afforestation
Sustainable agriculture practices
Control greenhouse emissions

Question 2

What are the threats to wetlands

Answer 2

Population growth
Economic development
Urbanisation

Question 3

What do Ramsar sites do

Answer 3

Work towards the wise use of all their wetlands

Cooperate internationally on trans boundary wetlands

Question 4

Restoration focus

Answer 4

Raising local water tables
Reconnecting wetlands on floodplains to rivers
Reclaimed marshland can be restored by allowing the sea defences to breach

Question 5

What are the threats to forests

Answer 5

Logging
Farming
Mining

Question 6

What is afforestation

Answer 6

Involves planting trees in deforested areas

Can reduce CO2 levels in the medium and long term and combat GCC

Question 7

UN Reducing Emissions from Deforested and Forest Degredation

Answer 7

Incentives developing countries to conserve their rainforest by placing a monetary value on forest conservation

Question 8

Afforestation in China

Answer 8

Aim to afforest 400, 000km2 by 2050
Non-native, fast growing species such as popular and birch
Combats desertification and land degradation in the semi-arid expanses of northern china

Question 9

How do agricultural practices threaten the carbon cycle

Answer 9

Over cultivation, overgrazing and excessive intensification
This has led to soil erosion and the release of huge quantities of carbon
Livestock production
Padi fields

Question 10

Management - Land and crop management

Answer 10

Zero tillage
Polyculture
Crop residues
Avoiding using heavy machinery
Contour ploughing and terracing

Question 11

Management - manure management

Answer 11

Control way manure decomposes to reduce amount of methane produced
Capturing methane to use as a renewable source

Question 12

International agreements to reduce carbon emissions

Answer 12

GCC affects all countries

Solving the problem requires international cooperation

Question 13

Kyoto protocol 1997

Answer 13

Reduction in signed up countries emissions

USA refused to ratify the agreement

Question 14

Paris agreement

Answer 14

Reduce global CO2 emissions below 60% of 2010 levels by 2050

Question 15

Cap and trade

Answer 15

Alternative, international market- based approach to limit CO2 emissions
Can purchase credits for those who need a bigger quota of other companies