Agriculture is multi-functional, producing economic goods including food, feed, fibre, and fuel, as well as providing several intangible or non-tradable services to society free of cost. Non-tradable services, unlike economic goods, remain unpriced; as a result, farmers are not compensated monetarily for the benefits of the several non-tradable services they …
"Offsetting" habitat destruction has widespread appeal as an instrument for balancing economic growth with biodiversity conservation. Requiring proponents to pay the nontrivial costs of habitat loss encourages sensitive planning approaches. Offsetting, biobanking, and biodiverse carbon sequestration schemes will play an important role in conserving biodiversity under increasing human pressures. However, …
This publication outlines five priority areas and three modalities, giving ADB's approach to climate change are: expanding the use of clean energy, encouraging sustainable transport and urban development, managing land use and forests for carbon sequestration, promoting climate-resilient development, and strengthening related policies and institutions. These priorities will be pursued …
Urmi A Goswami NEW DELHI INDIA seized the opportunity accorded by the Oslo Conference on Climate and Forests to make a case for a global fund to aid developing countries increase their forest cover. New Delhi maintains that it is not enough to provide compensation and incentives for avoiding deforestation …
Gokul Chandrasekar | ENS Ministry of Forests will conduct public consultation on the mission beginning June 11 The mission will strive to increase the afforested area across the country to 20 million hectares of land by 2020 INDIA plans to double its forest cover by 2020 through afforestation and eco-restoration …
Draft of Green India Mission, one of the missions under NAPCC released by MoEF. Aims to address climate change by enhancing carbon sinks in sustainably managed forests and adaptation of vulnerable ecosystems & forest dependant local communities to changing climate. The National Mission for a Green India, as one of …
Reports that the geological record of erosion indicates a fourfold increase in global sedimentation rates during the past 5 million years merited a global explanation. Explanations offered include an increased rate of mountain formation and global cooling. Now Jane Willenbring and Friedhelm von Blanckenburg reanalyse original data sets and use …
Increased erosion associated with the rise of the world's great mountain ranges has been held to be the cause of a prolonged episode of past climate cooling. That connection is now brought into doubt.
Hundreds of millions of indigenous women and men throughout the world manage their forests and crops sustainably, and in this way contribute to the sequestration of greenhouse gases. However, maintaining control over their land and forests in the face of colonial and corporate attempts to nationalise or privatise them has …
This guidebook addresses forestry projects' standing in carbon markets, anticipated trends, as well as the financing of these projects and sale of carbon credits. It provides insight into the issues that have limited the forest carbon market, and uses case studies to highlight best practices and success stories that developers …
Rapid and alarming deterioration in natural environment has become a matter of great concern for the entire globe. Exploding population, industrialization, man-made pollution, loss of forests, etc are responsible for this disastrous ecological scenario. Carbon dioxide emissions are at historic highs and rising. Bamboo is emerged as a way out …
Jharkhand may get a coal-fired power plant with zero carbon emission in a few years. A private company in Delhi, Urja Global Limited (ugl), has offered to set up a 100 MW power plant that would sequester carbon dioxide and other pollutants emitted by burning coal. “We’ll import the technology …
As governments elaborate strategies to counter climate change, there is a need to compare the different options available on an environmental basis. This study proposes a life cycle assessment framework integrating the Lashof accounting methodology, which enables the assessment and comparison of different carbon mitigation projects (e.g., biofuel use, a …
The countries of Asia and the Pacific are highly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change, with more people at risk than any other region of the world. This places the need to address climate change firmly on the region's economic development agenda. Continued poverty reduction in Asia and …
The agricultural sector can help to address, mitigate, and adapt to climate change. Agriculture has significant potential to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and store (or sequester) carbon while at the same time reducing its GHG emissions
This paper explores the pros and cons of biomass and the logistics of switching to other fuels in developing countries. Calculations reveal that there is more than sufficient biomass, not only to maintain present consumption, but also to expand its use considerably. A principal cause of global warming is the …
Geologic sequestration (GS) of carbon dioxide (CO2) is contingent upon securing the legal right to use deep subsurface pore space. Under the assumption that compensation might be required to use pore space for GS, we examine the cost of acquiring the rights to sequester 160-million metric tons of CO2 (the …
State now produces a quarter of the country's pulp yield. This initiative has helped create green cover for carbon sequestration, ground water recharge, regeneration of biomass and in nurturing of depleted soils. V Rishi Kumar What started as a small initiative by the diversified ITC Ltd.several years ago, to change …
Chennai: The cold, arid region of Ladakh, where temperatures dip to minus 45 degrees Celsius, is the last place on earth where you would expect tomatoes, potatoes, cucumber, brinjal, onion and garlic to grow. But, thanks to the efforts of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), about 5,000 tons …
This document contains the presentation made by Umesh Babu at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010. Central to global measures to contain climate change is reduction in emissions of GHGs. Several times, non-annex countries like India and China are blamed for Green House Gas (GHG) emissions, particularly …
