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"Frames forestry activities within climate-change policy context. Analyzes the operation and efficacy of market-based mechanisms for forest conservation and climate change. Explores voluntary schemes for carbon crediting, provides an overview of carbon accounting best practices, and presents to...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Streck, Charlotte
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Washington, D.C. : Chatham House ; Brookings Institution Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Climatic changes.
Forest microclimatology.
Carbon sequestration.
Climat > Changements.
Microclimatologie des forêts.
Piégeage du carbone.
climate change.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Carbon sequestration
Climatic changes
Forest microclimatology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / David Freestone
  • Part one, Introduction
  • 1. Climate change and forestry : an introduction / Charlotte Streck [and others]
  • 2. The idea of market-based mechanisms for forest conservation and climate change / Rosimeiry Portela, Kelly J. Wendland, and Laura Ledwith Pennypacker
  • Part two, The international arena
  • 3. History and context of LULUCF in the climate regime / Eveline Trines
  • 4. Risks and criticisms of forestry-based climate change mitigation and carbon trading / Johannes Ebeling
  • 5. Forest carbon and other ecosystem services : synergies between the Rio Conventions / Jan Fehse
  • 6. Forestry projects under the Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation : rules and regulations / Sebastian M. Scholz and Martina Jung
  • Case study : the Humbo Community-based Natural Regeneration Project, Ethiopia / Paul Dettmann, Tony Rinaudo, and Assefa Tofu
  • 7. How renewable is bioenergy? / Bernhard Schlamadinger [and others]
  • Part three, Practical experiences
  • 8. Design issues in clean development mechanism forestry projects / Bruno Locatelli, Lucio Pedroni and Zenia Salinas
  • Case study : The San Nicolás Project in Colombia / Carmenza Robledo and Patricia Tobón
  • 9. The permanence challenge : an economic analysis of temporary credits / Franck Lecocq and Stéphane Couture
  • 10. Project-based mechanisms : methodological approaches for measuring and monitoring carbon credits / Timothy Pearson, Sarah Walker, and Sandra Brown
  • 11. Characterizing sequestration rights legally in Chile / Dominique Hervé and Edumundo Claro
  • 12. Legal issues and contractual solutions for LULUCF projects under the Clean Development Mechanism / Monique Miller, Martijn Wilder, and Eric Knight
  • Part four, Outlook : avoided deforestation and the post-Kyoto agenda
  • 13. Reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries : an introduction / Robert O'Sullivan
  • 14. An accounting mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation of forests in developing countries / Danilo Mollicone [and others]
  • Case study : creative financing and multisector partners in Madagascar / Jeannicq Randrianarisioa, Ben Vitale, and Sonal Pandya
  • 15. A Latin American perspective on land use, land-use change, and forestry negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change / Manuel Estrada Porrua and Andrea García-Guerrero
  • Case study : The Noel Kempff Climate Action Project, Bolivia / Jörg Seifert-Granzin
  • 16. Compensated reductions : rewarding developing countries for protecting forest carbon / Stephen Schwartzman and Paulo Moutinho
  • 17. Creating incentives for avoiding further deforestation : the nested approach / Charlotte Streck [and others].

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