are now at the summit but chinese leader xi jinping and russian president vladimir putin are not attending. and a rallying cry to the conference from world renowned natural historian, sir david attenborough. in my lifetime i ve witnessed a terrible decline. in yours, you could and should witness a wonderful recovery. all this comes as un scientists warn that extreme weather events are the new normal and the past seven years are on course to be the hottest on record. hello and welcome. our continued coverage here of cop26, here in glasgow. the summit billed as a make or break moment a test of whether countries can act together to limit global warming is getting underway. we have the close of the opening ceremony in the last couple of minutes. 7 we had. 120 world leaders are here to begin their speeches to delegates and the uk as the host is front and centre of this huge gathering. in advance of the conference s opening, the prime minister boris johnson has warned tha
Activity data and emission factors are critical for estimating greenhouse gas emissions and devising effective climate change mitigation strategies. This study developed the activity data and emission factor in the Forestry and Other Land Use Change (FOLU) subsector in Malawi. The results indicate that “forestland to cropland,” and “wetland to cropland,” were the major land use changes from the year 2000 to the year 2022. The forestland steadily declined at a rate of 13,591 ha (0.5%) per annum. Similarly, grassland declined at the rate of 1651 ha (0.5%) per annum. On the other hand, cropland, wetland, and settlements steadily increased at the rate of 8228 ha (0.14%); 5257 ha (0.17%); and 1941 ha (8.1%) per annum, respectively. Furthermore, the results indicate that the “grassland to forestland” changes were higher than the “forestland to grassland” changes, suggesting that forest regrowth was occurring. On the emission factor, the results interestingly indicate that the