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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The Market Approach Ian Swingland. Part 2 Environmental Services 9 The influence of land-use change and landscape dynamics on the climate system: relevance to climate-change policy beyond the radiative effect of greenhouse gases 157 ...
The Market Approach Ian Swingland. Part 2 Environmental Services 9 The influence of land-use change and landscape dynamics on the climate system: relevance to climate-change policy beyond the radiative effect of greenhouse gases 157 ...
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... land-use change, divided by region (a) Estimated total net carbon emissions from 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 ...
... land-use change, divided by region (a) Estimated total net carbon emissions from 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 ...
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... land-use change from 1700, 1900, 1970 and 1990 The 10-year average absolute-value change in surface latent turbulent heat flux worldwide as a result of land-use changes Radiative forcing of climate by afforestation, considering ...
... land-use change from 1700, 1900, 1970 and 1990 The 10-year average absolute-value change in surface latent turbulent heat flux worldwide as a result of land-use changes Radiative forcing of climate by afforestation, considering ...
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... land use, land-use change and forestry metre million multilateral development bank multilateral environmental agreement million metric tonnes of carbon equivalent megatonne megayear (1 million years) megawatt nitrogen non-governmental ...
... land use, land-use change and forestry metre million multilateral development bank multilateral environmental agreement million metric tonnes of carbon equivalent megatonne megayear (1 million years) megawatt nitrogen non-governmental ...
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... land-use change, including forest clearance. Tropical deforestation is resulting in a release of 1.7 PgC yr−1 into the atmosphere. However, there is also strong evidence for a 'sink' for carbon in natural vegetation (carbon absorption) ...
... land-use change, including forest clearance. Tropical deforestation is resulting in a release of 1.7 PgC yr−1 into the atmosphere. However, there is also strong evidence for a 'sink' for carbon in natural vegetation (carbon absorption) ...
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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