The Cost Of Avoiding Deforestation

Author : Charles Palmer,Stefanie Engel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134063116

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Avoided Deforestation by Charles Palmer,Stefanie Engel Pdf

Avoided deforestation can be characterized as the use of financial incentives to reduce rates of deforestation and forest degradation, with much of the focus on forests in tropical countries. While avoided deforestation, as a policy issue, is not new, the current debate in academic and policy circles on including it in future climate change mitigation strategies such as the Clean Development Mechanism is gathering pace – and this debate is only likely to intensify as negotiations continue over what should be included in the successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol, which is set to expire in 2012. Up until now, however, the debate in terms of the scientific and economic implications of avoided deforestation has not been brought together. This book aims to bring together important research findings in the area along with their policy implications, whilst linking avoided deforestation to political economy as well as to the latest developments in environmental and natural resource economics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782831712062

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The financial costs of REDD : Evidence from Brazil and Indonesia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Maryanne Grieg-Gran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Deforestation
ISBN : MINN:31951P010540077

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The Cost of Avoiding Deforestation by Maryanne Grieg-Gran Pdf

Author : Arild Angelsen
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9789791412766

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Moving Ahead with REDD: Issues, Options and Implications by Arild Angelsen Pdf

Author : Paulo Moutinho
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : MINN:31951P010677787

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Tropical Deforestation and Climate Change by Paulo Moutinho Pdf

Tropical deforestation, fires and emissions: measurement and monitoring; How to reduce deforestation emissions for carbon credit: compensated reduction; Policy and legal frameworks for reducing deforestation emissions.

Author : Michael I. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136340611

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Redeeming REDD by Michael I. Brown Pdf

It is now well accepted that deforestation is a key source of greenhouse gas emissions and of climate change, with forests representing major sinks for carbon. As a result, public and private initiatives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) have been widely endorsed by policy-makers. A key issue is the feasibility of carbon trading or other incentives to encourage land-owners and indigenous people, particularly in developing tropical countries, to conserve forests, rather than to cut them down for agricultural or other development purposes. This book presents a major critique of the aims and policies of REDD as currently structured, particularly in terms of their social feasibility. It is shown how the claims to be able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as enhance people's livelihoods and biodiversity conservation are unrealistic. There is a naive assumption that technical or economic fixes are sufficient for success. However, the social and governance aspects of REDD, and its enhanced version known as REDD+, are shown to be implausible. Instead to enhance REDD's prospects, the author provides a roadmap for developing a new social contract that puts people first.

Author : Frances Seymour,Jonah Busch
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781933286860

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Why Forests? Why Now? by Frances Seymour,Jonah Busch Pdf

Tropical forests are an undervalued asset in meeting the greatest global challenges of our time—averting climate change and promoting development. Despite their importance, tropical forests and their ecosystems are being destroyed at a high and even increasing rate in most forest-rich countries. The good news is that the science, economics, and politics are aligned to support a major international effort over the next five years to reverse tropical deforestation. Why Forests? Why Now? synthesizes the latest evidence on the importance of tropical forests in a way that is accessible to anyone interested in climate change and development and to readers already familiar with the problem of deforestation. It makes the case to decisionmakers in rich countries that rewarding developing countries for protecting their forests is urgent, affordable, and achievable.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environmental Audit Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 0215532449

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Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environmental Audit Committee Pdf

An area of tropical forest the size of England continues to be lost each year. This gives rise to around 17 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, greater than global emissions from transport. Addressing deforestation is as essential as decarbonising electricity or transport if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change. A failure to act on deforestation could double the cost of avoiding dangerous climate change to 2030. Deforestation is caused by a range of factors, many of which are exacerbated by a growing global population and increasing consumption. Halting deforestation requires: (a) support for rainforest nations to help them manage their development so that it does not allow continued deforestation; (b) management of the demand for commodities whose production encourages deforestation; and (c) the introduction of a mechanism to pay developing countries for maintaining, and in due course recreating, their forests. The UK needs to act in all three areas if its policies on deforestation are to be successful. Ignoring any one undermines the effectiveness and durability of action in the other areas. As part of this work the Government must: remove subsidies that contribute to deforestation, such as biofuels policy; develop sustainability standards for agricultural commodities; implement and enforce government timber procurement; and, seek an EU-wide ban on illegal timber imports combined with robust sanctions. Illegal timber imports are still a fact of life within the UK timber trade. The economic, environmental and development case for immediate action on deforestation is clear. But success is possible only if the international community works together effectively.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9781437931815

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Deforestation and Climate Change by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Bourne
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000926989

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Brazil after Bolsonaro by Richard Bourne Pdf

Brazil after Bolsonaro captures and presents the voices of a wide range of stakeholders including academics and journalists in Brazil and abroad to produce the first systematic engagement with Lula’s latest presidency. Providing fair and balanced perspectives on Lula, the authors examine the legacy of Lula’s previous presidency; what happened in the interim in the eras of Rousseff, Temer, and Bolsonaro; and what are the challenges facing a new Lula administration. This book is divided into three main sections (Background to change, Context and issues, and Foreign policy) and chapters detail the political, social, and economic dimensions of change in Brazil and its wider repercussions. A fourth section sees Luís Guillermo Solís Rivera, President of Costa Rica from 2014 to 2018, offer reflections on Lula from the perspective of a fellow president. Assuming no prior knowledge and written in an accessible style, this book is ideal for those seeking to further their understanding of contemporary politics in Brazil and to learn the context and consequences of the transfer of power from Jair Bolsonaro to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Author : Erin O Sills,Stibniati S Atmadja,Claudio de Sassi,Amy E Duchelle,Demetrius L Kweka,Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo,William D Sunderlin
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786021504550

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REDD+ on the ground by Erin O Sills,Stibniati S Atmadja,Claudio de Sassi,Amy E Duchelle,Demetrius L Kweka,Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo,William D Sunderlin Pdf

REDD+ is one of the leading near-term options for global climate change mitigation. More than 300 subnational REDD+ initiatives have been launched across the tropics, responding to both the call for demonstration activities in the Bali Action Plan and the market for voluntary carbon offset credits.

Author : Michael A. Livermore,Richard L. Revesz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199324118

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The Globalization of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy by Michael A. Livermore,Richard L. Revesz Pdf

Cost-benefit analysis -- the formal estimating and weighing of the costs and benefits of policy alternatives -- is a standard tool for governments in advanced economies. Through decades of research and innovation, institutions have developed in the United States, European Union, and other developed countries that examine and weigh policy alternatives as an aid to governmental decisionmaking. Lawmakers in the advanced economies have used cost-benefit analysis to evaluate core environmental and public health questions, such as urban air pollution control, water quality, and occupational safety. Yet despite its broad adoption in the industrialized world, most developing and emerging countries have not yet incorporated cost-benefit analysis into their policymaking process. Because these countries face significant limitations on financial resources and have less ability to shoulder inefficient rules, it is extremely important for their officials to determine which policies maximize net benefits for their societies. The Globalization of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy examines how cost-benefit analysis can help developing and emerging countries confront the next generation of environmental and public-health challenges. Analysis in the book examines the growing reach of cost-benefit analysis; presents relevant case studies where cost-benefit analysis has been incorporated in the Americas, Africa, Middle East, and Asia; and includes a discussion on the conceptual and institutional issues that must be addressed when adopting cost-benefit analysis in developing and emerging countries. In part because governments in developing and emerging countries have not extensively used cost-benefit analysis, there has been only limited research and discussion of the practice and its potential. Most work that has been done is on the domestic or regional level, and has not been widely shared or distributed within the international academic or policy community. By providing both theoretical and practical discussion of this important new tool, this book makes a valuable contribution to the fields of environmental policy, development studies, and environmental law.

Author : Cecilia Luttrell,Erin Sills,Riza Aryani,Andini Desita Ekaputri,Maria Febe Evnike
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Who will bear the cost of REDD+? Evidence from subnational REDD+ initiatives by Cecilia Luttrell,Erin Sills,Riza Aryani,Andini Desita Ekaputri,Maria Febe Evnike Pdf

REDD+ is based on the premise that actors with an interest in reducing emissions will pay for the costs of reducing deforestation. However, concerns have been raised about whether stakeholders in REDD+ host countries will end up bearing at least some of the costs. Drawing on a pan-tropical dataset covering 22 subnational REDD+ initiatives in five countries, we examine the degree to which these concerns about REDD+ are played out. We find that many institutions in REDD+ host countries, particularly subnational governments, are bearing implementation costs not covered by the budgets of subnational REDD+ initiatives. Opportunity costs are typically evaluated in terms of the value of production foregone, but can also be assessed in terms of the number of people affected. We show that expectations about which stakeholder groups will bear the greatest opportunity costs depend on whether the metric is total value or total number of people. The stakeholder groups with the greatest number of people affected are likely to be small-scale actors engaged in legally ambiguous land uses, which is a potential barrier to recognition and compensation of their costs. Our study clarifies the distribution of implementation and opportunity costs by characterizing the institutions and stakeholders that bear the costs of different types of subnational REDD+ initiatives. Thus, it complements common discourses in the benefit-sharing literature about which stakeholder groups have legitimate claims on revenues from REDD+ and should therefore be considered in the design of benefit-sharing systems.

Author : Ishwar C. Dhingra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000439519

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Green Economy: Opportunities and Challenges by Ishwar C. Dhingra Pdf

This book is a conscious effort to discuss the immeasurable environmental damage caused by the human kind and it is by turning these into nature friendly or green as we call them, we can continue to live without any damage to our surroundings. The book has a global approach with an eye on our domestic issues as well. Note: T&F does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Author : Renate Schubert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781136545580

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Future Bioenergy and Sustainable Land Use by Renate Schubert Pdf

Because of the major opportunities and risks associated with it, and the complexity of the subject, bioenergy policy has in a short time become a challenging political task for regulators and planners – a task that can only be accomplished through worldwide cooperation and the creation of an international framework. This book's central message is that the sustainable potential of bioenergy, which can be tapped all over the world, should be utilized – provided that threats to sustainability are avoided. In particular, the use of bioenergy must not endanger food security or the goals of nature conservation and climate change mitigation.