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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... tree biomass has been accompanied by a shift in community composition. Such changes could reduce or enhance the carbon storage potential of old growth forests in the long term. A new international research and monitoring network to ...
... tree biomass has been accompanied by a shift in community composition. Such changes could reduce or enhance the carbon storage potential of old growth forests in the long term. A new international research and monitoring network to ...
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... trees is carbon. Any activity that affects the amount of biomass in vegetation and soil has the potential to sequester carbon from, or release carbon into, the atmosphere. In total, boreal forests account for more carbon than any other ...
... trees is carbon. Any activity that affects the amount of biomass in vegetation and soil has the potential to sequester carbon from, or release carbon into, the atmosphere. In total, boreal forests account for more carbon than any other ...
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... tree rings, corals, ice cores and historical records. The thick black line is a 40-year smoothed average; the shaded grey is the uncertainty in the temperature (two standard errors). (Figure 1.2b). The 31% increase in atmospheric CO2 ...
... tree rings, corals, ice cores and historical records. The thick black line is a 40-year smoothed average; the shaded grey is the uncertainty in the temperature (two standard errors). (Figure 1.2b). The 31% increase in atmospheric CO2 ...
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... trees have been grown exposed to doubled atmospheric CO2 concentrations have demonstrated an increase in tree growth of 10–70% (Norby et al. 1999; Idso 1999). A key uncertainty is the extent to which the fertilization effect is limited ...
... trees have been grown exposed to doubled atmospheric CO2 concentrations have demonstrated an increase in tree growth of 10–70% (Norby et al. 1999; Idso 1999). A key uncertainty is the extent to which the fertilization effect is limited ...
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... trees, nearly all plants of cold climates, and most temperate crops including wheat and rice) than it is in those with a C4 mechanism (tropical and many temperate grasses, some desert shrubs and some important tropical crops including ...
... trees, nearly all plants of cold climates, and most temperate crops including wheat and rice) than it is in those with a C4 mechanism (tropical and many temperate grasses, some desert shrubs and some important tropical crops including ...
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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