Capturing Carbon and Conserving Biodiversity: The Market ApproachIan Richard Swingland Earthscan Publications Limited, 2003 - 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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Page 44
... carbon emissions will need to be reduced by ca. 136 Gt during the next 50 years from a business - as - usual sce- nario ( IPCC IS92a emission scenario ) . To ensure that the world is on the path for stabilization at 550 ppm , carbon ...
... carbon emissions will need to be reduced by ca. 136 Gt during the next 50 years from a business - as - usual sce- nario ( IPCC IS92a emission scenario ) . To ensure that the world is on the path for stabilization at 550 ppm , carbon ...
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... emissions- reduction units ' ( ERUS ) from a project in another industrialized country . Eligible projects include , for example , emissions reductions in energy , industry and transport sector activities , as well as carbon ...
... emissions- reduction units ' ( ERUS ) from a project in another industrialized country . Eligible projects include , for example , emissions reductions in energy , industry and transport sector activities , as well as carbon ...
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... GHG emissions by 2000. ( This , of course , was not achieved . With very few exceptions , all Annex I countries ' level of emissions exceeded the specified levels . See national communications to the UNFCCC . ) Finally , the objectives ...
... GHG emissions by 2000. ( This , of course , was not achieved . With very few exceptions , all Annex I countries ' level of emissions exceeded the specified levels . See national communications to the UNFCCC . ) Finally , the objectives ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Forests carbon and global climate | 15 |
Changes in the use and management of forests for abating carbon | 42 |
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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 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