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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... measures for increasing carbon sinks and reducing CO2 and other GHG emissions in agricultural systems Carbon sequestration in various land-use systems Energy consumed and carbon produced by various agricultural inputs and practices ...
... measures for increasing carbon sinks and reducing CO2 and other GHG emissions in agricultural systems Carbon sequestration in various land-use systems Energy consumed and carbon produced by various agricultural inputs and practices ...
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... measures are uppermost. First, whether, under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), by restricting allowable forestry measures to afforestation and reforestation, and explicitly excluding protection of threatened native forests, the ...
... measures are uppermost. First, whether, under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), by restricting allowable forestry measures to afforestation and reforestation, and explicitly excluding protection of threatened native forests, the ...
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... measurements should be incorporated into the calculation of carbon benefits (see Chapter 7). This system allows for trade-offs between expected carbon benefits, costs and desired precision, while maintaining the integrity of the net ...
... measurements should be incorporated into the calculation of carbon benefits (see Chapter 7). This system allows for trade-offs between expected carbon benefits, costs and desired precision, while maintaining the integrity of the net ...
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... measurements of CO2 in deep-ice bubbles, from the Vostok Antarctic ice core (Petit et al. 1999; Fischer et al. 1999). (b) CO2 concentrations during the last millennium, obtained from ice-cores at the Law Dome, Antarctica (Etheridge et ...
... measurements of CO2 in deep-ice bubbles, from the Vostok Antarctic ice core (Petit et al. 1999; Fischer et al. 1999). (b) CO2 concentrations during the last millennium, obtained from ice-cores at the Law Dome, Antarctica (Etheridge et ...
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... measurements of the concentration of atmospheric CO2, pioneered at Mauna Loa in Hawaii (Keeling & Whorf 2000), and now made at a number of stations around the world, show an unequivocal increase. Impacts of the 'carbon disruption ...
... measurements of the concentration of atmospheric CO2, pioneered at Mauna Loa in Hawaii (Keeling & Whorf 2000), and now made at a number of stations around the world, show an unequivocal increase. Impacts of the 'carbon disruption ...
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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