Capturing Carbon and Conserving Biodiversity: The Market ApproachIan Swingland Routledge, 2013 M06 17 - 368 pages For decades conservation has been based on the donor-driven principle. It hasn't worked. For centuries, environmental pollution or degradation has been addressed by the same attitude: the 'Polluter Pays' principle. That hasn't worked either. The cycle has to stop. But while everyone talks about using a market-driven approach, few know how to do it. Faced with the situation on the ground what do you do? What is happening? How can you engage a system so that it is self-sustaining and the people self-motivated? This study explores how the growing market in carbon can help to conserve carbon-based life forms. It discusses how reducing global warming and saving biodiversity can both be achieved with the right market conditions. The contributors include conservation biologists, ecologists, biologists, economists, lawyers, community and tribal specialists, financial specialists, market makers, environment specialists, climatologists, resource managers, atmospheric scientists, project developers and corporate fund managers. |
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... IPCC IYE J kW kyr IIED INPE IUCN JI LUCF LULUCF m M MDB MEA MMTCE Mt Myr MW N NGO N2O NOx NPP NPV NRDC NSW NTFP FHA Federal Housing Authority (US) g gram G-7 group of seven leading industrialized nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy ...
... IPCC IYE J kW kyr IIED INPE IUCN JI LUCF LULUCF m M MDB MEA MMTCE Mt Myr MW N NGO N2O NOx NPP NPV NRDC NSW NTFP FHA Federal Housing Authority (US) g gram G-7 group of seven leading industrialized nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy ...
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... IPCC (2001) projected future temperature increases over the next 100 years to range from 1.5 to 5.8 ◦C, and the atmospheric CO2 concentration to rise from the current value of 368 to between 500 and 1000 ppm. Very approximately, these ...
... IPCC (2001) projected future temperature increases over the next 100 years to range from 1.5 to 5.8 ◦C, and the atmospheric CO2 concentration to rise from the current value of 368 to between 500 and 1000 ppm. Very approximately, these ...
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... (IPCC Working Group III 2001). One of the most immediate options, and the one that is the focus of this book, is the option of locking up carbon in the terrestrial biosphere. Biosphere management options could include: • the prevention ...
... (IPCC Working Group III 2001). One of the most immediate options, and the one that is the focus of this book, is the option of locking up carbon in the terrestrial biosphere. Biosphere management options could include: • the prevention ...
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... IPCC suggest that a maximum mitigation of 100 PgC could be achieved between 2000 and 2050. (Reproduced from The Royal Society (2001).) sink mentioned previously. The two sinks are sometimes confused in discussion. For example, although ...
... IPCC suggest that a maximum mitigation of 100 PgC could be achieved between 2000 and 2050. (Reproduced from The Royal Society (2001).) sink mentioned previously. The two sinks are sometimes confused in discussion. For example, although ...
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... (IPCC 2001). (b) The percentage contribution that a human-induced land carbon sink of 1.5 PgC yr−1 could make towards a move from the 'business-as-usual' pathway to a low-emissions pathway. global mean temperature increase by 0.3 ◦C: a ...
... (IPCC 2001). (b) The percentage contribution that a human-induced land carbon sink of 1.5 PgC yr−1 could make towards a move from the 'business-as-usual' pathway to a low-emissions pathway. global mean temperature increase by 0.3 ◦C: a ...
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