A situation is analysed in which two countries negotiate the financing of the incremental costs which accrue if one of them switches from a non-sustainable onto a sustainable development path. The other country's incentive to pay arises as it benefits from the developing country's environmental...

This study evaluated changes in climate on tropical rainforest ecosystem in three Local Government Area of Rivers state, Nigeria. Structured questionnaires were administered randomly to 300 respondents. 89.7% affirms that they are aware of the change in climate, 10.3% were not aware. 33.6%...

This paper argues that tropical forests have become objects of climate and environ-mental governance. It begins with an analysis of the REDD mechanism in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which combines legal, market and scien-tific rationalities with measurement, reporting and...