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Climate Change: Financing Global Forests: The Eliasch Review book cover

1st Edition

Climate Change: Financing Global Forests The Eliasch Review

By Johan Eliasch Copyright 2008
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge
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An area of forest the size of England is cut down in the tropics each year. Forestry is responsible for a fifth of global carbon emissions - more than the entire world transport sector. Urgent action to tackle the loss of global forests needs to be a central part of any new international agreement on climate change. Climate Change: Financing Global Forests is an independent report commissioned... Read more
Introduction  Part 1: The Challenge of Deforestation  Forests, Climate Change and the Global Economy  The Drivers of Deforestation  Sustainable Production and Poverty Reduction  The Costs of Mitigation  Part 2: Forests and the International Climate Change Framework: The Long Term Goal  A Long Term Framework for Tackling Climate Change  The Current International Climate Change Framework  Part 3: The Building Blocks of Forest Financing: The Medium Term Approach  Transition to a Long Term Framework  Effective Targets for Reducing Forest Emissions  Measuring, Monitoring and Verifying Emissions from Forests  Linking to Carbon Markets  Governance and Distribution of Finance  Part 4: International Action, Capacity Building and Short Term Funding  The Funding Gap and Capacity Building

Biography

Johan Eliasch is Special Representative of the Prime Minister on Deforestation and Clean Energy. Born in Sweden but now based in the United Kingdom, he is Chairman and CEO of Head, the global sporting goods group. He is also the first President of Global Strategy Forum, an independent think-tank, and founder of the international charity Cool Earth, a charity that protects endangered rainforests.

'Arguably one of the most important books to be published in recent months.' CNBC European Business.

'An overpowering financial case for investing in the world's arboreal lungs...Eliasch hacks his way through a thicket of facts and figures to argue that we could halve the costs of fixing the climate if carbon markets gave credit for preserving trees...the obstacles are formidable, but Mr Eliasch's basic case is unanswerable.' The Guardian.

'I welcome this report's contribution to the global debate about how we address this ... I hope it can help the vital process of securing agreement on climate change in Copenhagen.' Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.

'The Eliasch Review makes a clear and compelling case for urgent action to save rainforests through market forces.' Fauna and Flora International.

'The Eliasch Review is a welcome recognition of the importance of reducing emissions through deforestation in a global agreement to tackle climate change ... Deforestation is responsible for 15 to 20 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions and this Review underlines the importance of making carbon savings from forests - as well as the financial, environmental and social consequences of inaction.' WWF.

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