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Small-scale farms in the western Brazilian Amazon: can they benefit from carbon trade? [PDF]

Recently scientists have started to examine how land-uses and land-use technologies can help mitigate carbon emissions. The half million small-scale farmers inhabiting the Amazon frontier sequester large stocks of carbon in their forests and other land ...
Carpentier, Chantal Line, Vosti, Steve, Witcover, Julie   +2 more
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Energy, carbon and cost performance of building stocks : upgrade analysis, energy labelling and national policy development [PDF]

, 2009
The area of policy formulation for the energy and carbon performance of buildings is coming under increasing focus. A major challenge is to account for the large variation within building stocks relative to factors such as location, climate, age ...
Clarke, J.A., Johnstone, C., Kim, J.M., Tuohy, P.G.   +3 more
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Valuing “Green” How “Going Green” Affects a Company’s Stock Price [PDF]

, 2015
Environmentally conscious decision making has become a prominent topic in business that has the potential to affect the public opinion and performance of companies.
Bayer, Alexia
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The Contribution of Saline-Alkali Land to the Terrestrial Carbon Stock Balance: The Case of an Important Agriculture and Ecological Region in Northeast China

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Saline-alkali land is an important component of terrestrial ecosystems and may serve as a carbon sink but its net contribution to the overall terrestrial carbon sink is unknown.
Lei Chang, Tianhang Ju, Huijia Liu, Yuefen Li   +3 more
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Carbon sequestration potential of reclaimed desert soils in Egypt [PDF]

, 2009
The objective of this study was to investigate the carbon storage potential of reclaimed soils under organic management. Agricultural soils are often mentioned as a potential carbon sink. However, until now the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention
Luske, Boki, van der Kamp , Joris
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Emission-Photosynthesis Imbalance and Climate Change:Forest Land under Intensified Uncertainty and Expected Utility Maximization [PDF]

This paper introduces photosynthesis into the motion-equation of the atmospheric stock of carbon-dioxide as a counterpart endogenous factor to emissions of this principal greenhouse gas from lands occupied by humans.
Amnon Levy
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Opportunities and risks for CO2 intense sectors in Turkey [PDF]

, 2012
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an independent not-for-profit organization holding the largest database of primary corporate climate change information in the world.
Sabuncu, Tanyeli Behic, Sabuncu, Tanyeli Behiç   +1 more
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Democracy, Income, and Environmental Quality [PDF]

This Working Paper considers the role of democracy in environmental quality and the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). Some studies in the EKC literature have examined the extent to which democratic nations are more or less apt to have improving ...
Kevin Gallagher, Strom Thacker
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Unilateral Climate Policy, Asymmetric Backstop Adoption, and Carbon Leakage in a Two-Region Hotelling Model [PDF]

We study backstop adoption and carbon dioxide emission paths in a two-region model with unilateral climate policy and non-renewable resource consumption.
Edwin van der Werf
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Carbon Stock Stratification of Peat Soils in South Kalimantan, Indonesia

Journal of Wetlands Environmental Management, 2016
Carbon stock in peat soils is very high, it is necessary to prudent in its management because peat soils is emitting greenhouse gases such as CO2 during land clearing due to oxidation of peat layer.  This research was conducted to study soil carbon stock
Siti Zakiah, Muhammad Noor, Dedi Nursyamsi   +2 more
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