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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... land-use change, 1850–1990. (b) Estimated annual emissions from land-use change in 1990 Total accumulated carbon emissions from land-use change and fossil-fuel combustion, 1850–2000 Northern Hemisphere temperatures for the last ...
... land-use change, 1850–1990. (b) Estimated annual emissions from land-use change in 1990 Total accumulated carbon emissions from land-use change and fossil-fuel combustion, 1850–2000 Northern Hemisphere temperatures for the last ...
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... land carbon sink of 15 PgC yr−1 could make towards a move from the 'business as usual' pathway to a low-emissions ... land-use change from 1700, 1900, 1970 and 1990 The 10-year average absolute-value change in surface latent turbulent ...
... land carbon sink of 15 PgC yr−1 could make towards a move from the 'business as usual' pathway to a low-emissions ... land-use change from 1700, 1900, 1970 and 1990 The 10-year average absolute-value change in surface latent turbulent ...
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... land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) projects under the CDM is the potential for leakage. Leakage refers to a net increase of GHG emissions in an area outside the project resulting from the CDM activity. Chapter 8 provides an ...
... land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) projects under the CDM is the potential for leakage. Leakage refers to a net increase of GHG emissions in an area outside the project resulting from the CDM activity. Chapter 8 provides an ...
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... land-use change, particularly tropical deforestation. The Kyoto negotiations surrounding land-use activities have been hampered by a lack of robust carbon inventory data. Moreover, the Protocol's provisions make it difficult to ...
... land-use change, particularly tropical deforestation. The Kyoto negotiations surrounding land-use activities have been hampered by a lack of robust carbon inventory data. Moreover, the Protocol's provisions make it difficult to ...
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... land- and forest-management practices that can capture and store atmospheric CO2 can also provide other environmental benefits, such as biodiversity preservation and enhanced water quality. The presence of a carbon-trading market will ...
... land- and forest-management practices that can capture and store atmospheric CO2 can also provide other environmental benefits, such as biodiversity preservation and enhanced water quality. The presence of a carbon-trading market will ...
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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