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Fighting climate change

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) declared in 2007 that the evidence of a global warming trend is “unequivocal,” and that human activity has certainly caused these changes over the last 50 years.

More than 60% of global warming is caused by carbon dioxide emissions, and most greenhouse gas emissions are human-induced, caused by energy consumption and deforestation. The rise of industrial revolution has dramatically increased the amount of green house gas emissions into the atmosphere, but deforestation is also a major factor, as trees and plants convert carbon dioxide to oxygen.

Floods, rising sea levels, heat waves, and cyclones all are believed to be the increasingly visible results of climate change, caused mainly by excess greenhouse gas emissions. Although it is impossible to predict exactly what calamities climate change will bring in the future, many theories have been developed on the basis of recent measurements.

Each year, as forests grown and increase their biomass, they absorb carbon from the atmosphere and store it in plant tissue. This process is known as carbon sequestration. All Silva Tree’s projects are developed as Carbon Offset projects which aim specifically to removing or reducing Carbon Dioxide levels or emissions. Silva Tree current projects consist of avoided deforestation projects (REDD) fighting one of the main causes of CO2 emissions; reforestation which actively absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere, and biofuel production which reduces emissions by replacing fossil fuels with a clean fuel source.