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A New Initiative to Use Carbon Trading for Tropical Forest Conservation
Author(s) -
Laurance William F.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
biotropica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.813
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1744-7429
pISSN - 0006-3606
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2006.00229.x
Subject(s) - tropical forest , carbon market , politics , clean development mechanism , natural resource economics , tropical rain forest , business , emissions trading , carbon fibers , carbon stock , agroforestry , carbon offset , mechanism (biology) , rainforest , political science , economics , ecology , greenhouse gas , environmental science , climate change , biology , computer science , law , philosophy , epistemology , algorithm , composite number
I describe a new initiative, led by a coalition of developing nations, to devise a viable mechanism for using carbon trading to protect old‐growth tropical forests. I highlight some of the practical and political hurdles involved in forest‐carbon trading, and explain why this initiative is rapidly gaining broad‐based political support.