...One of the main aims of the CLC projects is to enable comparison of the results and the detection of changes in land cover. The changes were identified using the five-hectare resolution.
The total area of changes between 2000 and 2006 is about 7 000 km2 corresponding to about 2.1 % of Finland's area (excluding sea areas).
Most of the changes in Finland are due to forest management, i.e. forest cuttings and re-growth make 91 % of the area of all changes. Approximately 3 500 km2 of forest has changed into transitional woodland/shrubs and conversely nearly 3 000 km2 new forest has emerged.
Only 1 % of the detected changes are due to the increase in built-up land while establishment of new agricultural areas makes almost 7 % of the changes. The major part of the new agricultural areas is converted from old peat production areas....
Please keep in mind the EU is responsible for nine percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions. That is according to the US EPA.
As a government, the United States isn't even trying.
Ranking (click here) of the world's countries by 2014 per capita fossil-fuel CO2
emission rates. National per capita estimates (CO2_CAP) are expressed
in metric tons of carbon (not CO2).
14 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 4.43
41 FINLAND 2.35
