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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... carbon credits will be discounted or invalid if they do not meet these criteria, providing all parties with strong incentives to achieve the performance standards relating to both processes and contracts. For carbon trading to develop ...
... carbon credits will be discounted or invalid if they do not meet these criteria, providing all parties with strong incentives to achieve the performance standards relating to both processes and contracts. For carbon trading to develop ...
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... carbon credits can be generated under three different regimes including the CDM which is subject to an elaborate regulatory overlay that discriminates against carbon sequestration by developing countries. For example, complying ...
... carbon credits can be generated under three different regimes including the CDM which is subject to an elaborate regulatory overlay that discriminates against carbon sequestration by developing countries. For example, complying ...
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... carbon emissions may result in carbon gains that are due, in part, to the CO2-fertilization effect. However, the Kyoto Protocol is explicit in saying that carbon credits can only accrue from direct humaninduced changes in the use and ...
... carbon emissions may result in carbon gains that are due, in part, to the CO2-fertilization effect. However, the Kyoto Protocol is explicit in saying that carbon credits can only accrue from direct humaninduced changes in the use and ...
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... carbon credits where permanence is neither guaranteed nor wanted (Marland et al. 2001). The renter (or purchaser such as an entity in an Annex 1 country) can benefit from the limited-term carbon credits, while the seller retains long ...
... carbon credits where permanence is neither guaranteed nor wanted (Marland et al. 2001). The renter (or purchaser such as an entity in an Annex 1 country) can benefit from the limited-term carbon credits, while the seller retains long ...
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... carbon offsets would be the difference between the with- and without-project cases. This example represents a project ... carbon credits. An example of this is industrial-scale exotictree plantations for pulpwood or sawtimber. Although ...
... carbon offsets would be the difference between the with- and without-project cases. This example represents a project ... carbon credits. An example of this is industrial-scale exotictree plantations for pulpwood or sawtimber. Although ...
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