A study being conducted by an international group of researchers has found out that plants use up carbon dioxide 25 percent more rapidly than it was previously known.

This discovery can assist in redefining efforts to deal with global warming just at this crucial moment when consultations are being held at the United Nations to come up with a more extensive climate accord.

Reuters reported that this will be one of the major areas of concentration during the scheduled conference on global warming in South Africa this December.

It is widely expected that climate change will result in more severe droughts, floods and rising sea levels.

Governments must forge a stronger collaboration to hold back carbon pollution which is frequently held responsible for the upheaval in different parts of the globe.

The scientists composed of Lisa Welp-Smith of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California along with her team has devised a new technique how much CO2 is absorbed and discharged by the plants.

The team made use of "oxygen isotope markers in CO2 and more than 30 years of data from a global network that analyses air samples to measure changes in greenhouse gases, pollution and other factors," according to the Reuters report.

The study was published on Thursday in the Journal called Nature.

Plants form a major part of the global carbon cycle wherein carbon is continuously recycled and used a number of times by plants and animals as well as nature - our oceans and land.

"Carbon pollution coming out of burning fossil fuels and forests adds to the CO2 in the air, which disturbs the balance that keeps the planet warm. The team's finding suggests plants absorb 16 to 19 times mankind's total CO2 emissions, underscoring the powerful role they can play in regulating the climate," according to Reuters.

"If we are right, and GPP needs to be revised upward by about 25 percent, it means that our fundamental understanding of how land plants function on the global scale is still a bit fluid," Welp-Smith told Reuters, referring to gross primary production, a measure of photosynthesis.

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Melbourne claim that the study uncovers what is actually taking place in the environment.