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Asia's sectoral transformation, evolving diets, and the consequences for climate change
Larson, Donald Frederick - 2024
to "end hunger" and "achieve food security and improved nutrition," while promoting "sustainable agriculture." Lifting … the world's freshwater supplies go to agriculture; in South Asia, agriculture uses over 90%. On-farm greenhouse gas …; in Asia, during the same period, on-farm GHG emissions grew by 27%, from 2.5 to 3.2 GtCO2e. All of this puts agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014515844
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Sustainable Development and Market Liberalism's Shotgun Wedding : Emissions Trading Under the Kyoto Protocol
Driesen, David M. - 2014
This article analyzes the international emissions trading regime at the heart of the world's effort to address global warming as a means of exploring broader international governance issues. The trading regime seeks to marry two models of global governance, market liberalism, which embraces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051997
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Sustainable Cities of Tomorrow : A Land Use Response to Climate Change
Miller, Stephen R. - 2015
This book chapter seeks to identify ways in which urban land use is a driver of climate change in both the developed and developing worlds. Urban land use factors identified as substantially affecting climate change include: rapid population growth; rapid urbanization; population migrations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014152306
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Landnutzungsänderungen, Landwirtschaftliche Intensivierung und Kohlenstoffarme Landwirtschaft in Mato Grosso, Brasilien
Gil, Juliana - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012544972
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A Modelling Framework for Addressing the Synergies Between Global Conventions Through Land Use Changes : Carbon Sequestration, Biodiversity Conservation, Prevention of Land Degrada...
Ponce-Hernandez, Raul - 2015
This paper proposed a methodological framework for the assessment of carbon stocks and the development and identification of land use, land use change and land management scenarios, whereby enhancing carbon sequestration synergistically increases biodiversity, the prevention of land degradation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012707873
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A low GHG development pathway design framework for agriculture, forestry and land use
Svensson, Johannes; Waisman, Henri; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien; … - In: Energy strategy reviews 37 (2021), pp. 1-14
Agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) represent 22% of global greenhouse gas emissions. To meet the … across four types of levers (increasing sequestration; improving the emissions efficiency of agriculture; incentivising …
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Carbon farming in Africa : opportunities and challenges for engaging smallholder farmers
Schilling, Friederike; Baumüller, Heike; Ecuru, Julius; … - 2023
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) highlights the importance of reaching net-zero CO2 emissions globally by 2050. Unlocking the potential of natural climate solutions in the strive for net-zero emissions is increasingly gaining attention. A large potential may arise from the...
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How compatible is customary tenure with the aims of the Swaziland environmental action plan?
Waveren, Erik van - In: Sustainable development : national aspirations, local …, (pp. 205-227). 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003525849
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Agricultural public policy : green or sustainable?
Mouysset, L. - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 102 (2014), pp. 15-23
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