Received: FebruAccepted: DecemPublished: March 29, 2023Ĭopyright: © 2023 Brown et al. PLoS ONE 18(3):Įditor: Arun Jyoti Nath, Assam University, INDIA We conclude that the NBR can be used to identify degraded peatland areas and to support identification of areas for conversation and restoration.Ĭitation: Brown C, Boyd DS, Sjögersten S, Vane CH (2023) Detecting tropical peatland degradation: Combining remote sensing and organic geochemistry. In the top 50 cm section of the peat profile, carbon stocks were negatively related to the normalised burns ratio (NBR) (a satellite derived parameter) (Spearman’s rho = -0.664, S = 366, p-value = <0.05) while there was a positive relationship between the hydrogen index and the normalised burns ratio profile (Spearman’s rho = 0.7, S = 66, p-value = <0.05) suggesting that this remotely sensed product is able to detect degradation of peat in the upper peat profile. The Rock-Eval pyrolysis of the upper peat profiles showed that surface peat layers at Fire Affected, Disturbed Forest, and Managed Recovery locations had lower immature organic matter index (I-index) values (average I-index range in upper section 0.15 to -0.06) and higher refractory organic matter index (R -index) (average R-index range in upper section 0.51 to 0.65) compared to Central Forest sites indicating enhanced decomposition of the surface peat. disturbed sites) had different decomposition profiles than Central Forest sites. Peat core sub-samples and litter collected from Fire Affected, Disturbed Forest, and Managed Recovery locations (i.e. Across the sampling sites the carbon stocks in the below ground peat was ca 12 times higher than the forest (median carbon stock held in ground vegetation 114.70 Mg ha -1 and peat soil 1401.51 Mg ha -1). The study used the North Selangor Peat Swamp forest, Malaysia, as the model system. In this paper we combined organic geochemical analysis by Rock-Eval (6) pyrolysis of peat collected from sites with different land management history and optical remote sensing products to assess if remotely sensed data could be used to predict peat conditions and carbon storage. Identification of peatland areas that are important for protection and restauration with regards to the state of their carbon stocks, are therefore vital for policy makers. Protection and restoration of peatlands are increasingly recognised as key nature based solutions that can be implemented as part of climate change mitigation.

However, he mentioned that profitability at a company level is pushed out by a few months because of lower subsidy.Tropical peatlands are important carbon stores that are vulnerable to drainage and conversion to agriculture. “The PLI qualifying criteria are extreme, either you have to be a very large company or you had to be a company with zero revenue,” Phokela said, adding that the electric two-wheeler maker continues to be ‘unit profitable’, despite the lower subsidy. On the proposal to subsume FAME into the existing PLI schemes, he said that these PLIs do not cover all OEMs because of the qualifying criteria.Īt present, the Centre runs two PLI schemes for automobile and auto component industry, and another one for advanced chemistry cell ( ACC) battery storage. And we wish and hope that there is a phase III that allows us to sustain this (growth) for about three years or so,” he said. The current subsidy levels are the right levels. “So, when subsidy goes away, the market goes into a big shock. “There was an issue (subsidy rollback) but during the last couple of months, we are seeing a month-on-month growth coming back and we hope that by the festive season the industry would reach the pre-subsidy level.”īatting for the next phase of the FAME scheme, Phokela said, “FAME-III is required, but we do not need to go back to the original subsidy levels because those were unreal and unsustainable, and it’s not good for the market because you were artificially reducing prices.” The FAME-II scheme provided Rs 55,500 per unit but a few months ago it was rolled back to Rs 22,485 per unit. Notably, the industry had to increase prices due to the rollback of some of the FAME-II subsidy, which was being provided by the Centre to prop-up demand.

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