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Black carbon absorbs heat and just accelerates the melting of glaciers.
It's behind our decision to establish a Just Transition Commission to guide our path to a carbon zero economy.
You are right now in the beautiful, sunny capital city ... (Laughter) of the country that led the world in the Enlightenment, the country that helped lead the world into the industrial age, the country that right now is helping to lead the world into the low carbon age.
Elements and compounds essential to life include hydrogen, methane, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, phosphates, and ammonia.
The seawater expelled here is highly alkaline and lacks carbon dioxide, but is rich in methane and offers more hospitable temperatures.
Adjacent black smokers may have contributed the carbon dioxide necessary for life to evolve at Lost City, giving it all the components to support the first organisms that radiated into the incredible diversity of life on Earth today.
Over time, most of the planet's organic carbon has been absorbed and stored there, mostly by microbes.
Excess carbon dioxide is not only driving global warming, it's also changing ocean chemistry, making the sea more acidic.
About 12 percent of the land around the world is now protected: safeguarding biodiversity, providing a carbon sink, generating oxygen, protecting watersheds.
And some such plans exist, things like swarms of mirrors in space to deflect the sunlight away and encouraging aquatic organisms to eat more carbon dioxide.
Now, as we breathe, we produce carbon dioxide, and that carbon dioxide needs to be scrubbed out of the system.
There's a chemical filter in there that pulls the carbon dioxide out of the breathing gas, so that when it comes back to us, it's safe to breathe again.
That means that both in the ground and above the ground it can make better use of the available light, it can store more carbon in the system, it can provide more functions.
Those pictures we use to analyze how much carbon, how the forest is developing, and we can monitor every tree using satellite images through our cooperation.
If you would use a little bit of your technology to put tracking devices in trucks, and use Google Earth in combination with that, you could directly tell what palm oil has been sustainably produced, which company is stealing the timber, and you could save so much more carbon than with any measure of saving energy here.
Well, when we look out, you and I, over that canopy of the intact primary forest, what we see is this enormous carpet of carbon.
One of the challenges that canopy researchers are attacking today is trying to understand the amount of carbon that is being sequestered.
We know it's a lot, but we do not yet know the answers to how much, and by what processes, carbon is being taken out of the atmosphere, held in its biomass, and moving on through the ecosystem.
And that's because when girls are educated, they have smaller families, and the resulting reduction in population reduces carbon emissions significantly.
I had woven carbon fiber sprinting legs modeled after the hind leg of a cheetah, which you may have seen on stage yesterday.
So the carbon that is part of that seaweed, just a few weeks ago, was floating in the atmosphere as atmospheric CO2, driving all the adverse consequences of climate change.
We have to cut our emissions and clean our energy supply at the same time that we draw significant volumes of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
So, ideas like carbon offsets really don't make sense in the modern era.
And to do that, we need a carbon price.
We use the sun to drive photosynthesis in plants, break apart that CO2 and capture the carbon.
And how do we sequester the carbon?
Whereas if you plant a forest, you've got to worry about forest fires, bugs, etc., releasing that carbon.
Carbon dioxide has been increasing since the start of the Industrial Revolution, increasing from about 280 parts per million to over 410 today, and it continues to increase.
The carbon that plants need to grow comes from this carbon dioxide.
They bring it into the plant, they break it apart into the carbon itself, and they use that to grow.
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