Researchers in Sweden at the University of
Gothenburg, have shown in a recent study that restitution of wetlands could
reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reports NaijaAgroNet.
Information gathered by NaijaAgroNet
showed that greenhouse
gas is any gaseous compound in the atmosphere that is able to absorb
infrared radiation, thereby trapping and holding heat in the atmosphere and by
increasing the heat in the atmosphere, greenhouse
gases are accountable for the greenhouse
effect, which ultimately leads to global warming.
Previous wetlands NaijaAgroNet
reports
have been drained and are at present used for forestry and agriculture give off
11.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents that could be compared with
Sweden's total emissions of 57.6 million tonnes.
Since peatlands should be restored into wetlands so
as to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a researcher at the Department of Earth
Sciences, University of Gothenburg also one among the authors of the report which
was published this year, Åsa Kasimir, said that in the report pointed out some
percentage of land in Sweden that should be restored.
"The report states that some three percent of
Sweden's land area is drained peatland and it discusses which of these areas
should be rectified in the first instance," says Åsa Kasimir.
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