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significantly contributes to global emissions, inter alia with deforestation and non-sustainable forest management. In the light of … are actually relevant for an effective climate agreement for the forest sector. To assess the countries' relevance, we … reporting for the forest sector. The results show that climate relevant countries are distributed all over the world and cannot …
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A longitudinal household survey from World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) was used for the study. A relatively small (but representative) sample of households residing in the mountainous regions of Nepal (i.e., excluding the low-lying Terai regions) were surveyed in three...
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This publication records the proceedings of the Country Safeguard Systems (CSS) Regional Workshop on April 2012 at the ADB headquarters. Discussions focused on the evolution, current status, and future directions of CSS, and the CSS partnership between developing member countries (DMCs) and...
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Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries), a program that offers direct compensation for forest conservation … system for monitoring deforestation. In this paper, we introduce FORMA (Forest Monitoring for Action), a prototype system …Rising concern about carbon emissions from deforestation has led donors to finance UN-REDD (Reducing Emissions from …
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Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia rises mainly from planning and development policies. These policies created great … this context, development opposes environment. This paper reports on this deforestation and its evolution in Brazilian … Amazonia. It shows that development and planning policy which have generated this deforestation during recent decades have been …
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through forest growth; it is possible to subtract from that credit a premium corresponding to an insurance against fire. 2) At … the carbon value of the forest lost through fire. 3) At all dates, for each past harvest, impute a debit for the value of … the current decay of forest products. 4) At the time of harvest, impute a discrete debit for the value of waste. <P> L …
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It is possible to make a current valuation of the effects of carbon dioxide which tracks a valuation done under the metric of expected present value and also tracks realized values. The implementation of a carbon credit scheme based on green accounting could go as follows: L'évaluation des...
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’s forests. This report examines the available evidence on the impacts of the crisis on deforestation and land use in the … sectors. (c) The primary mechanism through which deforestation trends are likely to have been affected is through changes in … source of concern. (d) There is little evidence to support the more alarmist fears of vastly accelerated deforestation …
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To support conservation planning, we ask whether a park's impact on deforestation rates varies with observable land … deforestation impacts vary greatly due to park lands' characteristics. Avoided deforestation is greater if parks are closer to the …
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