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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... increase as nuclear plants are shut down and replaced by gas-fired generation A comparison of typical cost and the annual potential for CO2 reduction of different methods of electricity generation DNC capacity of renewable sources A ...
... increase as nuclear plants are shut down and replaced by gas-fired generation A comparison of typical cost and the annual potential for CO2 reduction of different methods of electricity generation DNC capacity of renewable sources A ...
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... increase pressure on native forests and their biodiversity in developing countries. Two specific concerns with Kyoto provisions for forestry measures are uppermost. First, whether, under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), by ...
... increase pressure on native forests and their biodiversity in developing countries. Two specific concerns with Kyoto provisions for forestry measures are uppermost. First, whether, under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), by ...
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... 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 changes could reduce or enhance 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 changes could reduce or enhance the ...
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... increase of GHG emissions in an area outside the project resulting from the CDM activity. Chapter 8 provides an overview of leakage, its definitions and its causes. It describes ways in which LULUCF projects may suffer from leakage and ...
... increase of GHG emissions in an area outside the project resulting from the CDM activity. Chapter 8 provides an overview of leakage, its definitions and its causes. It describes ways in which LULUCF projects may suffer from leakage and ...
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... increase this by orders of magnitude, and so contribute significantly to GHG abatement. Most agricultural mitigation ... increased use of biomass and reduced use of fossil-fuel inputs and reduced agricultural emissions. In all events ...
... increase this by orders of magnitude, and so contribute significantly to GHG abatement. Most agricultural mitigation ... increased use of biomass and reduced use of fossil-fuel inputs and reduced agricultural emissions. In all events ...
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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