scholarly journals Generating carbon finance through avoided deforestation and its potential to create climatic, conservation and human development benefits

2008 ◽  
Vol 363 (1498) ◽  
pp. 1917-1924 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Ebeling ◽  
Maï Yasué
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Carbon Markets ◽  
Conservation And Development ◽  
Tropical Forest Conservation ◽  
Formidable Challenge ◽  
Change Mitigation

Recent proposals to compensate developing countries for reducing emissions from deforestation (RED) under forthcoming climate change mitigation regimes are receiving increasing attention. Here we demonstrate that if RED credits were traded on international carbon markets, even moderate decreases in deforestation rates could generate billions of Euros annually for tropical forest conservation. We also discuss the main challenges for a RED mechanism that delivers real climatic benefits. These include providing sufficient incentives while only rewarding deforestation reductions beyond business-as-usual scenarios, addressing risks arising from forest degradation and international leakage, and ensuring permanence of emission reductions. Governance may become a formidable challenge for RED because some countries with the highest RED potentials score poorly on governance indices. In addition to climate mitigation, RED funds could help achieve substantial co-benefits for biodiversity conservation and human development. However, this will probably require targeted additional support because the highest biodiversity threats and human development needs may exist in countries that have limited income potentials from RED. In conclusion, how successfully a market-based RED mechanism can contribute to climate change mitigation, conservation and development will strongly depend on accompanying measures and carefully designed incentive structures involving governments, business, as well as the conservation and development communities.

scholarly journals Practices of development assistance and climate change mitigation in reshaping the Mozambican REDD+ strategy

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-670
Author(s):  
Pekka Virtanen ◽  
Eero Palmujoki
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
General Idea ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
International Organisations ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
Climate Change Governance

ABSTRACTThis paper studies how the practices of climate change governance and development assistance have reshaped the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) process in Mozambique. We look at how the original goals of the Mozambican REDD+ strategy changed in the interplay of different governance-related practices, both those originating locally and nationally, and those coming from international organisations. The paper is based on the frameworks of multilevel governance and practice theory. We identify six combinations of practices that are relevant in the REDD+ programmes and projects. Three of them are incorporated in the general idea of sustainability, including practices of promoting environmental conservation, economic growth and social justice/development, while the remaining three practices are connected to climate-mitigation practices, for which the frame is defined in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

On the climate change mitigation potential of CO2 conversion to fuels

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 2491-2499 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Carlos Abanades ◽  
Edward S. Rubin ◽  
Marco Mazzotti ◽  
Howard J. Herzog
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Liquid Fuels ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Co2 Conversion ◽  
Mitigation Potential ◽  
Alternative Systems ◽  
Change Mitigation

Proposed utilization schemes producing liquid fuels from captured CO2 offer fewer climate mitigation benefits at higher costs than alternative systems.

Determined Action to Tackle Health Determinants: A Collaborative Response to the Challenge of Climate Change Mitigation in Practice Settings

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roslyn Elizabeth Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Determinants ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Change Mitigation

The physical environment has long been understood as a major determinant of health and well-being. In recent years, the relationship between health and the environment has become particularly pronounced, with the impacts of climate change identified as having the potential to reverse the last 50 years of public health advancement (Watts et al., 2015). Increasingly, professional bodies within health care are called upon to frame climate change as a health issue. Despite this, studies have found that nurses report feeling ill-equipped to respond to environmental changes and the resulting health impacts (Anåker, Nilsson, Holmner, & Elf, 2015; Lewis, 2018; Polivka, Chaudry, & Mac Crawford, 2011). This article recognizes some of the barriers facing concerned health-care professionals who wish to introduce climate mitigation activities within their sphere of professional operation. The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (Victorian Branch) was approached by nurses, midwives, and carers, to become more involved in policy debates surrounding climate change and to provide stronger support to members in responding to environmental issues. The result is top-down and bottom-up responses working in synergy for climate change mitigation, by empowering nurses to make changes to their professional practice.

Governing the Commons to Promote Global Justice: Climate Change Mitigation and Rent Taxation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Jakob ◽  
Ottmar Edenhofer ◽  
Ulrike Kornek ◽  
Dominic Lenzi ◽  
Jan Minx
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Common Property ◽  
Resource Rents ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Development Objectives ◽  
Change Mitigation

Climate change mitigation means restricting the use of the atmosphere as a disposal space for greenhouse gas emissions, which would create a novel scarcity rent. Appropriating this rent via fiscal policies, such as taxes, together with already existing scarcity rents of land and natural resources, could be an economically efficient source of public revenues to advance human development objectives. This chapter discusses how an international climate agreement would turn the atmosphere into a common property regime and describes equity principles that determine how the resulting climate rent is distributed. It then estimates how carbon pricing in combination with appropriate revenue recycling could advance human development goals. It also considers equity aspects of distributing land and natural resource rents as well as the potential of these rents to promote global justice. Finally, it assesses the political feasibility of combining rent taxation with targeted investment, drawing conclusions for the potential implementation of such an approach.

Bonn meetings will be key in global climate deal

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Carbon Markets ◽  
Carbon Pricing ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Core ◽  
Climate Treaty ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
Strong Agreement

Significance The most important climate summit since the 1997 Kyoto gathering will open in Paris at end-November, with the goal of producing the first universal binding climate treaty ever drafted. Preparatory talks are progressing slowly on the core document negotiated among countries. However, the recent announcement of the first-ever official climate commitment from China and the growing push for carbon pricing are positive signals that the Paris summit could result not only in an agreement, but in a significant one. Impacts French organisers will accelerate negotiations, set to be intensive, as the first Bonn meeting did not produce the expected result. China's official commitment to climate change mitigation could pave the way for a strong agreement in Paris. Carbon pricing will be discussed and progress in harmonising carbon markets is not excluded anymore.

scholarly journals Agricultural and Forest Land Use Potential for REDD+ among Smallholder Land Users in Rural Ghana

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Divine O. Appiah ◽  
John T. Bugri ◽  
Eric K. Forkuo ◽  
Sampson Yamba
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Forestry Services ◽  
Change Mitigation

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation with other benefits (REDD+) mechanism is supposed to address the reversal of forest-based land degradation, conservation of existing carbon stocks, and enhancement of carbon sequestration. The Bosomtwe District is predominantly agrarian with potentials for climate change mitigation through REDD+ mechanism among smallholder farmers. The limited knowledge and practices of this strategy among farmers are limiting potentials of mitigating climate change. This paper assesses the REDD+ potentials among smallholder farmers in the district. Using a triangulation of quantitative and qualitative design, 152 farmer-respondents were purposively sampled and interviewed, using snowballing method from 12 communities. Quantitative data gathered were subjected to the tools of contingency and frequencies analysis, embedded in the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) v.16. The qualitative data were analyzed thematically. Results indicate that respondents have knowledge of REDD+ but not the intended benefit sharing regimes that can accrue to the smallholder farmers. Farmers’ willingness to practice REDD+ will be based on the motivation and incentive potentials of the strategies. The Forestry Services Division should promote the practice of REDD+ among smallholder farmers through education, to whip and sustain interest in the strategy.

scholarly journals “Trees Are Our Relatives”: Local Perceptions on Forestry Resources and Implications for Climate Change Mitigation

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 5885
Author(s):  
Nelson Chanza ◽  
Walter Musakwa
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Forestry Resources ◽  
Change Mitigation

The link between nature and society is vital for climate change mitigation and sustainable natural recourse management. Based on a case study of the indigenous people of Mbire in Zimbabwe, we argue that perceptions of indigenous people about forestry resources provide useful pointers toward framing climate mitigation interventions. This interest was necessitated by the growing call to address the suppression of forest-rich indigenous communities in climate change science. Accordingly, the aim of the study was to understand how indigenous people can contribute to the abatement of climate change. The study engaged 32 purposively selected elderly participants in focus group discussions; these participants had long histories of staying in the villages studied and were figures whom the locals regarded as “experts” in giving credible inferences about their environment. The participants corroboratively perceived forests and trees as their own “relatives”, who should not be harmed because of the support they continue to generously give to the people. Their construct of climate change relates to the gradual but continuing trivialization of cultural beliefs and abandonment of traditional practices, which they believe offend the spirits who have powers to influence the climate system. Although their attribution view on climate change is in contrast with that of mainstream climate scientists, we argue that their profound acknowledgement of climatic change, coupled with their scientific understanding of the intrinsic relationship between people’s wellbeing and the environment, are key entry points to design sustainable climate mitigation programs at community scales. The sustainability of such programs should not ignore local belief systems and strategies that communities use in preserving their forests.

Motivating cocoa farmers to adopt agroforestry practices for mitigating climate change

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Kayode Arimi ◽  
Ayodeji Omoare
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Carbon Markets ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Natural Solution ◽  
Cocoa Farmers ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
Agroforestry Practices

Abstract With the adverse effects of climate change becoming more prominent, more effective strategies for reducing the increase in atmospheric CO2 levels are required for mitigating further climate change. Increasing use of renewable energy by farmers motivated to practice agroforestry is one natural solution for reducing those climate change impacts. Unfortunately, climate change mitigation through agroforestry has been inhibited by a lack of scientific validation. In this paper, we ascertain factors that motivate African cocoa farmers to use agroforestry practices for enhancing food production as well as for mitigating climate change. We analyzed data collected from 120 farmers from the Oyo state of Nigeria through descriptive and regression analysis statistical tools. We found that access to information (β = 0.23, t = 2.18) and extension service (β = 0.23, t = 2.27) was associated with greater willingness of farmers to participate in agroforestry whereas negative attitudes (β = −0.29, t = −3.21) were associated with a lower involvement of cocoa farmers in agroforestry practices. We conclude that effective climate change mitigation programs need to do more to motivate farmers to adopt agroforestry practices by increasing their understanding of the benefits to be derived from carbon markets and by providing them with the necessary tools for employing these practices for climate change mitigation and more sustainable food production.

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