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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... carbon burden by about 2.3 billion tonnes of carbon. Given a central price of US$10 per tonne of carbon and a discount rate of 3%, this mitigation would generate a net present value of about US$16.8 billion collectively for these ...
... carbon burden by about 2.3 billion tonnes of carbon. Given a central price of US$10 per tonne of carbon and a discount rate of 3%, this mitigation would generate a net present value of about US$16.8 billion collectively for these ...
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The Market Approach Ian Swingland. Ethical. carbon. funds. The World Bank initiated the Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF) in April 2000 to help spur the development of a global carbon ... ton of CO2 equivalent, compared with a marginal abatement ...
The Market Approach Ian Swingland. Ethical. carbon. funds. The World Bank initiated the Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF) in April 2000 to help spur the development of a global carbon ... ton of CO2 equivalent, compared with a marginal abatement ...
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