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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... improved linkages are needed between international conservation concerns and ensuring effective solutions to sustainability, which inevitably rest at national and sub-national levels, through systems of rights, tenure, benefits and ...
... improved linkages are needed between international conservation concerns and ensuring effective solutions to sustainability, which inevitably rest at national and sub-national levels, through systems of rights, tenure, benefits and ...
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... Improved inventory systems and capacity building for developing nations will, therefore, be necessary. Carbon pools that are based on field measurements should be incorporated into the calculation of carbon benefits (see Chapter 7) ...
... Improved inventory systems and capacity building for developing nations will, therefore, be necessary. Carbon pools that are based on field measurements should be incorporated into the calculation of carbon benefits (see Chapter 7) ...
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... improved carbon-focused forest management will almost always result in net carbon sequestration. How does this land-management sink potential compare with expected carbon emissions over the 21st century? The IPCC 'business as usual ...
... improved carbon-focused forest management will almost always result in net carbon sequestration. How does this land-management sink potential compare with expected carbon emissions over the 21st century? The IPCC 'business as usual ...
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... improved silvicultural practices, improved forest management and harvesting technologies, biodiversity conservation, wildlife management, etc., that lend themselves to local adoption and diffusion to the rural poor. Projects that ...
... improved silvicultural practices, improved forest management and harvesting technologies, biodiversity conservation, wildlife management, etc., that lend themselves to local adoption and diffusion to the rural poor. Projects that ...
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... improving forest management and to remove atmospheric CO2 through establishment of new forests on marginal lands or protection of secondary forests. As carbon-sink strategies can be implemented relatively quickly because little new ...
... improving forest management and to remove atmospheric CO2 through establishment of new forests on marginal lands or protection of secondary forests. As carbon-sink strategies can be implemented relatively quickly because little new ...
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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