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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... regions 173 Alan Renwick, Andrew S. Ball and Jules N. Pretty 11 The role of sustainable agriculture and renewable-resource management in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and increasing sinks in China and India 195 Jules N. Pretty ...
... regions 173 Alan Renwick, Andrew S. Ball and Jules N. Pretty 11 The role of sustainable agriculture and renewable-resource management in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and increasing sinks in China and India 195 Jules N. Pretty ...
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... region Estimated net carbon emissions from land-use change, divided by region (a) Estimated total net carbon emissions ... regions, inferred from an inversion at global atmospheric CO2 concentrations with an estimate of uncertainty The ...
... region Estimated net carbon emissions from land-use change, divided by region (a) Estimated total net carbon emissions ... regions, inferred from an inversion at global atmospheric CO2 concentrations with an estimate of uncertainty The ...
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... regions under Article 3.4 creates a dynamic that can encourage displacement of timber harvests from Annex I countries to developing nations. Given current timber extraction patterns in developing regions, additional harvest pressure ...
... regions under Article 3.4 creates a dynamic that can encourage displacement of timber harvests from Annex I countries to developing nations. Given current timber extraction patterns in developing regions, additional harvest pressure ...
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... regions and 35% in the temperate continental-shelf regions (Pauly & Christensen 1995). Such large-scale disruption has led to the suggestion that the modern era could be thought of as a new geological era, the Anthropocene (Crutzen 2002) ...
... regions and 35% in the temperate continental-shelf regions (Pauly & Christensen 1995). Such large-scale disruption has led to the suggestion that the modern era could be thought of as a new geological era, the Anthropocene (Crutzen 2002) ...
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... region. Data from Marland (2001). Land-use change Since the discovery of fire management, most human societies have relied on modifications of natural landscapes with consequent changes in the carbon storage densities of forests ...
... region. Data from Marland (2001). Land-use change Since the discovery of fire management, most human societies have relied on modifications of natural landscapes with consequent changes in the carbon storage densities of forests ...
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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