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Trees Alone Cannot Be the Answer to Climate Change of Present Millennium

Volume 3 - Issue 5

Fayaz Ahmad Bhat*

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- Department of Environmental Sciences/Centre of Research for Development (CORD), University of Kashmir (J&K), India
*Corresponding author: Fayaz Ahmad Bhat, Department of Environmental Sciences/Centre of Research for Development (CORD), University of Kashmir (J&K), India

Received: April 04, 2018; Published: April 13, 2018

DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2018.03.000959

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Abstract

Climate change is caused by emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) through anthropogenic activities including land-use change, deforestation, biomass burning, draining of wetlands, soil cultivation and fossil fuel combustion. Consequently, the concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases and their radiative forcing have progressively increased with increase in human population, especially from the onset of industrial revolution around 1850. Thus, unless necessary steps are not taken to reduce CO₂ emissions by increasing carbon sinks in terrestrial ecosystem alone, it is not possible to stabilize or reduce concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Keywords: Greenhouse; Population growth; Carbon dioxide; Methane; Nitrous oxide

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