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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... annual emissions from land-use change in 1990 Total accumulated carbon emissions from land-use change and fossil-fuel combustion, 1850–2000 Northern Hemisphere temperatures for the last millennium (1000–1998) An estimate of the human ...
... annual emissions from land-use change in 1990 Total accumulated carbon emissions from land-use change and fossil-fuel combustion, 1850–2000 Northern Hemisphere temperatures for the last millennium (1000–1998) An estimate of the human ...
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... annual deforestation emissions (1989–1995) to fossil-fuel emissions from major emitting countries (1995) Comparison of mean annual deforestation emissions (1989–1995) to emissions from petroleum, natural gas and coal (1990–1999) Timber ...
... annual deforestation emissions (1989–1995) to fossil-fuel emissions from major emitting countries (1995) Comparison of mean annual deforestation emissions (1989–1995) to emissions from petroleum, natural gas and coal (1990–1999) Timber ...
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... annual carbon sequestration and carbon emissions avoidance in 40 sustainable agriculture and renewableresource-management projects of China and India Commercializing forest environmental services Ramifications of including land-use ...
... annual carbon sequestration and carbon emissions avoidance in 40 sustainable agriculture and renewableresource-management projects of China and India Commercializing forest environmental services Ramifications of including land-use ...
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... annual cycle, and represent a total exchange of 210 PgC yr−1, of which the larger share (120 PgC yr−1) is taken by the land (Prentice et al. 2001). This annual exchange is more than 25 times the total amount of carbon annually ...
... annual cycle, and represent a total exchange of 210 PgC yr−1, of which the larger share (120 PgC yr−1) is taken by the land (Prentice et al. 2001). This annual exchange is more than 25 times the total amount of carbon annually ...
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... annual rate of CO2 emissions through fossil-fuel combustion and cement production since 1750, divided between regions (Marland et al. 2001). By 1998, a total of 270 Pg of carbon had been emitted by these processes. Europe (including ...
... annual rate of CO2 emissions through fossil-fuel combustion and cement production since 1750, divided between regions (Marland et al. 2001). By 1998, a total of 270 Pg of carbon had been emitted by these processes. Europe (including ...
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afforestation annual Article 3.4 assessment atmospheric CO2 avoided deforestation baseline biodiversity biomass carbon credits carbon cycle carbon emissions carbon market carbon offsets carbon sequestration carbon sinks carbon stocks change and forestry Clean Development Mechanism climate change commitment period communities conservation Convention cost crops deforestation developing countries economic ecosystems ecotourism effects emissions reductions emissions trading emissions-trading energy Environment environmental services estimates example forest management forestry projects fossil-fuel GHG emissions global greenhouse gas harvesting hectares impacts implementation improved incentives increase industrialized IPCC Kyoto Protocol land land-use activities land-use change leakage LULUCF measures mitigation monitoring natural forests options organic Parties PgC yr−1 plant plantations potential practices production programme protected areas rates Ravindranath reduce regions result sector sequester carbon soil carbon sources species sustainable agriculture sustainable development tC ha−1 timber tion tonne of carbon tourism trees tropical forests UNFCCC watershed World Bank