Reserved Areas Importance for Mitigation of Climate Change

Abstract

Tamaz Patarkalashvili

Scientific-technical progress that we observe for last several decades in the world along with the sufficient benefits to our society brings many detrimental effects to environment, plant biodiversity and climate change. Increased levels of exhausted transport emissions into atmosphere poison ambient air in big cities and settlements causing allergies, respiratory and cardiovascular diseases and lung damage. Great threats to climate change are: deforestation, forest degradation and overexploitation of bio-resources of the planet in many countries of the world like Brazil, Russia, the Republic of Indonesia. Forest fires, taking place every year in North America, Australia, Russia, are also big contributors to climate change. In this situation forests and reserved areas can play very important role in mitigation of threats by absorbing carbon dioxide. As more forests and reserved areas we have on the planet, as more carbon dioxide be absorbed and more oxygen omitted into atmosphere and vice versa. This goal can be achieved by enlargement of existed and creation of new reserved areas, preservation of all forests with joint efforts of governments, scientists and policy-makers from all countries of the world.

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