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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... biomass and (b) between NPP and total (soil plus biomass) carbon stock Total carbon emissions from fossil-fuel combustion and cement production since 1750, divided by region Estimated net carbon emissions from land-use change, divided ...
... biomass and (b) between NPP and total (soil plus biomass) carbon stock Total carbon emissions from fossil-fuel combustion and cement production since 1750, divided by region Estimated net carbon emissions from land-use change, divided ...
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... biomass, possibly in response to the increasing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 (Phillips et al. 2002b). However, it is unclear whether the recent increase in tree biomass has been accompanied by a shift in community composition. Such ...
... biomass, possibly in response to the increasing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 (Phillips et al. 2002b). However, it is unclear whether the recent increase in tree biomass has been accompanied by a shift in community composition. Such ...
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... biomass and reduced use of fossil-fuel inputs and reduced agricultural emissions. In all events, realizing these incomes would necessitate substantially greater policy support and investment in sustainable land uses than is currently ...
... biomass and reduced use of fossil-fuel inputs and reduced agricultural emissions. In all events, realizing these incomes would necessitate substantially greater policy support and investment in sustainable land uses than is currently ...
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... biomass to modifying ecosystem composition by altering the competitive balance between species. The focus of this chapter will be on the role of forests and forest management in this global carbon cycle. In their pre-agricultural state ...
... biomass to modifying ecosystem composition by altering the competitive balance between species. The focus of this chapter will be on the role of forests and forest management in this global carbon cycle. In their pre-agricultural state ...
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... biomass of trees is carbon. Any activity that affects the amount of biomass in vegetation and soil has the potential to sequester carbon from, or release carbon into, the atmosphere. In total, boreal forests account for more carbon than ...
... biomass of trees is carbon. Any activity that affects the amount of biomass in vegetation and soil has the potential to sequester carbon from, or release carbon into, the atmosphere. In total, boreal forests account for more carbon than ...
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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