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Illegal logging is widely recognized as a major economic problem and one of the causes of environmental degradation. Increasing awareness of its negative effects has fostered a wide range of proposals to combat it by major international conservation groups and political organizations. Following...
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forest degradation in the Tropics (REDD). Within the climate change policy debate we thus find discussions on how to reduce … GHG emissions by designing appropriate REDD programmes and projects. In this paper I try to capture this debate by looking … REDD. In order for REDD to be successful, not only GHG reduction, but also multiple benefits should be achieved: indigenous …
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through foreign aid mechanisms towards Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+). This paper … addresses key questions regarding the potential of REDD+ to support sustainable forest management in the context of complex …. -- sustainable forest management ; foreign aid ; official development assistance ; climate change finance ; REDD+ ; forestry sector …
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Land degradation is a global problem affecting negatively the livelihoods and food security of billions of people, especially farmers and pastoralists in the developing countries. Eradicating extreme poverty without adequately addressing land degradation is highly unlikely. Given the importance...
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The carbon mitigation literature has separately considered using forests to store carbon and as a source of bioenergy. In this paper, we look at both options to reach a 2°C mitigation target. This paper combines the global forest model, GTM, with the IAM WITCH model to study the optimal use of...
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We present a computable general equilibrium model properly modified to analyse the potential role of the European forestry sector within climate mitigation. Improvements on database and modelling frameworks allow accounting for land heterogeneity across and within regions and for land transfers...
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Bio-energy has the potential to be a key mitigation option if combined with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) because it generates electricity and absorbs emissions at the same time. However, biomass is not distributed evenly across the globe, and regions with a potentially high demand...
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Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) has been proposed as a potentially inexpensive and … plentiful source of emission abatement to supplement other longterm climate policies. However, critics doubt that REDD credits … commitments, as well as uncertainties in REDD credit supply. Numerical simulations with a multi-country equilibrium model of the …
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If we imagine the proverb “if the mountain won't come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain” as an equation with two variables, information and communication technologies (“ICT”) and public administration, it will not matter which place each one of them will take in the...
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This book, through various differently oriented chapters, tries to give an insight on how the European Union and its multilevel model of governance must try to strike a balance between diverging interests and priorities. In particular, the EU and the European states (including the CoE's Members)...
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