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increase sequestration in the land use, land use change and forestry, and agricultural sectors. In developing countries …
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as well as from offset crediting mechanisms. The second area is accounting for emissions and removals from the forestry …
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forestry sector within climate mitigation. Improvements on database and modelling frameworks allow accounting for land … heterogeneity across and within regions and for land transfers between agriculture, grazing, and forestry. The forestry sector has … forestry practices. Results show that including forest carbon in the compliance strategy decreases European policy costs and …
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New Zealand is the first country to implement a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) that includes a forestry … climate change agreement the Kyoto Protocol. The goal of this paper is to provide information o forestry’s role in the New … first provides a brief outline of the role of forestry in New Zealand’s ETS, including the reasons for its inclusion in the …
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Owing to the extensive critique of food-crop-based biofuels, attention and hopes have turned toward second-generation wood-based biofuels. An important question is therefore whether wood from boreal forests could serve as a source for biofuels. However, in a typical boreal forest, it takes...
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Land use and land-use change can result in the emissions of greenhouse gases that cause climate change. Climate change also affects the productivity of land, which in turn leads to further land-use change. This paper explores the growing research on both topics. The land-use emission literature...
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Deforestation in the North western part of Pakistan is a long standing problem. The Forestry Department, as formal … further reform the Forestry Department, the question is whether organizational reform is the answer. We think there are more … limiting bottlenecks to sustainable forest management in Pakistan. De facto property rights are not as simple as denoted by …
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The need for a global agreement to the problem of tropical deforestation has led to the REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) scheme, which proposes that the developed countries pay developing countries for CO<sub>2</sub> emissions saved through avoided deforestation and forest...
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In this article, we empirically assess the efficiency of Natura 2000 contracts in forest, a payment for environmental service (PES) scheme, aiming at biodiversity conservation. To do so, we perform a bio-econometric analysis of public and private contracts in France. We estimate a cost function...
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Procurement auctions are one of several policy tools available to incentivise the provision of ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation. Successful biodiversity conservation often requires a landscape-scale approach and the spatial coordination of participation, for example in the...
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