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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... emissions trading under the Kyoto Protocol: a legal analysis 283 Eric C. Bettelheim and Gilonne d'Origny 18 Protecting terrestrial ecosystems and the climate through a global carbon market 309 Robert Bonnie, Melissa Carey and Annie ...
... emissions trading under the Kyoto Protocol: a legal analysis 283 Eric C. Bettelheim and Gilonne d'Origny 18 Protecting terrestrial ecosystems and the climate through a global carbon market 309 Robert Bonnie, Melissa Carey and Annie ...
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... emissions scenario and a low-emissions scenario for the 21st century. (b) ... emission reduction or carbon sequestration by level of total reduction An example of ... trading prices 3D digital image of a forest transect in the Noel Kempff ...
... emissions scenario and a low-emissions scenario for the 21st century. (b) ... emission reduction or carbon sequestration by level of total reduction An example of ... trading prices 3D digital image of a forest transect in the Noel Kempff ...
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... emissions-trading initiatives Examples of local and private GHG-emissions-trading initiatives Annual carbon mitigation and associated incomes via forest restoration for the years 2003–2012 Carbon-sequestration rates according to four ...
... emissions-trading initiatives Examples of local and private GHG-emissions-trading initiatives Annual carbon mitigation and associated incomes via forest restoration for the years 2003–2012 Carbon-sequestration rates according to four ...
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... emissions trading—offered the best opportunity. By October 2001 it was clear that misinformation and misguided political lobbying by a few pressure groups and conservation charities were seriously distorting the debate. Worse, their ...
... emissions trading—offered the best opportunity. By October 2001 it was clear that misinformation and misguided political lobbying by a few pressure groups and conservation charities were seriously distorting the debate. Worse, their ...
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... trading respects the rights and needs of local and indigenous people. Emissions trading now seems inevitable and there should be proper rules to control this trade where it affects forests and their inhabitants. It is imperative that ...
... trading respects the rights and needs of local and indigenous people. Emissions trading now seems inevitable and there should be proper rules to control this trade where it affects forests and their inhabitants. It is imperative that ...
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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