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Ecosecurities
About: Ecosecurities is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Kyoto Protocol & Clean Development Mechanism. The organization has 13 authors who have published 17 publications receiving 1452 citations.
Topics: Kyoto Protocol, Clean Development Mechanism, Baseline (configuration management), Deforestation, Natural resource
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TL;DR: How successfully a market-based RED mechanism can contribute to climate change mitigation, conservation and development will strongly depend on accompanying measures and carefully designed incentive structures involving governments, business, as well as the Conservation and development communities.
Abstract: Recent proposals to compensate developing countries for reducing emissions from deforestation (RED) under forthcoming climate change mitigation regimes are receiving increasing attention. Here we demonstrate that if RED credits were traded on international carbon markets, even moderate decreases in deforestation rates could generate billions of Euros annually for tropical forest conservation. We also discuss the main challenges for a RED mechanism that delivers real climatic benefits. These include providing sufficient incentives while only rewarding deforestation reductions beyond business-as-usual scenarios, addressing risks arising from forest degradation and international leakage, and ensuring permanence of emission reductions. Governance may become a formidable challenge for RED because some countries with the highest RED potentials score poorly on governance indices. In addition to climate mitigation, RED funds could help achieve substantial co-benefits for biodiversity conservation and human development. However, this will probably require targeted additional support because the highest biodiversity threats and human development needs may exist in countries that have limited income potentials from RED. In conclusion, how successfully a market-based RED mechanism can contribute to climate change mitigation, conservation and development will strongly depend on accompanying measures and carefully designed incentive structures involving governments, business, as well as the conservation and development communities.
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TL;DR: The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has successfully demonstrated that market-based mechanisms can achieve some cost effective emissions reductions in developing countries, but the distribution of CDM projects has been extremely uneven across countries and regions, and a few technologies and sectors have dominated the early stages of the CDM experience as mentioned in this paper.
232 citations
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TL;DR: Results from this study suggest that certification can be successful in countries where governments have limited governance capacity and where large-scale and vertically integrated forestry operations are commercially feasible.
214 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, a method for accounting for the effects of carbon sequestration in land-use projects in relation to the duration of carbon storage is described. But this method is limited to land use projects.
Abstract: Concern about the issue of permanence andreversibility of the effects of carbon sequestrationhas led to the need to devise accounting methods thatquantify the temporal value of storing carbon that hasbeen actively sequestered or removed from theatmosphere, as compared to carbon stored as a resultof activities taken to avoid emissions. This paperdescribes a method for accounting for the atmosphericeffects of sequestration-based land-use projects inrelation to the duration of carbon storage. Firstly,the time period over which sequestered carbon shouldbe stored in order to counteract the radiative forcingeffect of carbon emissions was calculated, based onthe residence time and decay pattern of atmosphericCO2, its Absolute Global Warming Potential. Thistime period was called the equivalence time, andwas calculated to be approximately 55 years. From thisequivalence time, the effect of storage of 1 tCO2 for 1 year was derived, and found to besimilar to preventing the effect of the emission of0.0182 tCO2. Potential applications of thistonne.year figure, here called the equivalencefactor, are then discussed in relation to theestimation of atmospheric benefits over time ofsequestration-based land use projects.
172 citations
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TL;DR: For the embodiment of natural resources and environmental emissions in Chinese economy 2005, a biophysical balance modeling is carried out based on an extension of the economic input-output table into an ecological one integrating the economy with its various environmental driving forces as discussed by the authors.
159 citations
Authors
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Charlie Wilson | 43 | 140 | 7696 |
Till Neeff | 14 | 22 | 583 |
Johannes Ebeling | 7 | 9 | 908 |
Mark C. Trexler | 4 | 5 | 150 |
Pedro Moura Costa | 3 | 4 | 354 |
A. Fernando | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Jan Fehse | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Robert Tippman | 1 | 1 | 228 |
J.B. Zhou | 1 | 1 | 152 |
Marc Stuart | 1 | 1 | 40 |
Louise Aukland | 1 | 1 | 153 |
Jobert Winkel | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Nathan Steeghs | 0 | 1 | 0 |