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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... plantations in the temperate and boreal forest zones Effect of land-use changes on plant-canopy density The 10-year average absolute-value change in surface latent turbulent heat flux at the locations where land-use change occurred ...
... plantations in the temperate and boreal forest zones Effect of land-use changes on plant-canopy density The 10-year average absolute-value change in surface latent turbulent heat flux at the locations where land-use change occurred ...
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... plantation establishment Global and Annex I industrial roundwood production and trade Proposed salient features: Chicago Climate Exchange 128 135 139 140 144 158 175 177 177 190 197 198 200 207 274 322 336 337 352 About the contributors ...
... plantation establishment Global and Annex I industrial roundwood production and trade Proposed salient features: Chicago Climate Exchange 128 135 139 140 144 158 175 177 177 190 197 198 200 207 274 322 336 337 352 About the contributors ...
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... plantations on non-forested lands, and increasing the tree cover on agricultural or pasture lands); and • substitute sustainably grown wood for energy intensive and cement-based products (e.g. biofuels, construction materials) (Myers ...
... plantations on non-forested lands, and increasing the tree cover on agricultural or pasture lands); and • substitute sustainably grown wood for energy intensive and cement-based products (e.g. biofuels, construction materials) (Myers ...
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... plantations) and slowing tropical deforestation could avoid and sequester ca. 990 MtC (210 Mt for establishing new forests (from Brown et al. 1996) and 783 Mt for slowing deforestation (Niles et al., Chapter 4 this book)) or nearly all ...
... plantations) and slowing tropical deforestation could avoid and sequester ca. 990 MtC (210 Mt for establishing new forests (from Brown et al. 1996) and 783 Mt for slowing deforestation (Niles et al., Chapter 4 this book)) or nearly all ...
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... plantations for pulpwood or sawtimber. Although these plantations could sequester large amounts of carbon, the financial returns are high enough that they might have been implemented regardless of climate change (business as usual) ...
... plantations for pulpwood or sawtimber. Although these plantations could sequester large amounts of carbon, the financial returns are high enough that they might have been implemented regardless of climate change (business as usual) ...
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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