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  Forests for carbon sequestration or fossil fuel substitution?: a sensitivity analysis

  World Forestry Congress, 1997

  Among the proposals for mitigating the increase of atmospheric CO2 are the possibility of reforesting degraded lands to sequester C or of using sustainable forest harvests to displace fossil fuels.
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  Forests and climate change: role of forest lands as carbon sinks

  World Forestry Congress, 1997

  Forests potentially contribute to global climate change through their influence on the global carbon (C) cycle.
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  The determinants of the national position of Brazil on climate change : empirical reflections

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1997

  International negotiations on the Framework Convention on Climate Change have been characterized by severe polarization between developed and developing countries. The G77, led by major countries such as Brazil, India, and China, illustrated a remarkable capacity to manifest its importance in the final text of the Convention.
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  Designing Projects within the GEF Focal Areas to Address Land Degradation: with Special Reference to Incremental Cost Estimation

  Program for Measuring Incremental Costs for the Evironment, GEF, 1999

  The aim of this paper is to illustrate how projects could be designed to address land degradation through the four focal areas; with special reference to incremental costs assessment. Approaches the question from a generic form through to specific examples.
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  Climatic Uncertainty and Natural Resource Policy: What Should the Role of Government Be?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Recent concern about the consequences of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has focused attention on how policy implications are interpreted and acted upon, and the role government has in monitoring and disseminating predictions of weather patterns.
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  Stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gases: physical, biological and socio-economic implications

  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 1997

  Tutorial and discussion of the technical background to the stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations. Aimed at policy makers
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  Carbon Sinks in the Post-Kyoto World

  Weathervane: Digital Forum on Global Climate Policy, 1998

  Reviews the basic scientific understanding about forests' function as carbon sinks and forest-related activities and trends that alter global carbon balances. They also examine the Kyoto Protocol 's language regarding the role of forests as carbon sinks and sources, and the use of forestry-based projects to produce carbon credits under the Protocol. [author]
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  India's Position on Climate Change from Rio to Kyoto: A Policy Analysis

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Policy-making analysis of actors, structures, ideas, interests and powers behind the Indian government’s national position on climate change.
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  Implications of Climatic Variability for Food Security in The Southern African Development Community

  Internet Journal of African Studies, 1997

  Although it cannot be claimed irrefutably that global changes in climate have already occurred, much of the recent research suggests that the rise in the proportion of "greenhouse gases" in the atmosphere may already have set in train some irreversible changes. Certainly, there seems to be some evidence of increasing climate variability.
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  What Role for Tropical Forests in Climate Change Mitigation? The Case of Costa Rica

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999

  Land and forestry-based activities could in principle play important roles as climate change mitigation strategies. In practice, however, several questions have been raised about their feasibility. Therefore, understanding the processes and determinants of land use changes is critical.

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