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This report highlights a significant, but rarely discussed, economic angle to the Senate's deliberations on the American Power Act. Unlike the House-passed climate bill, which set aside one percent of revenues from emissions auctions for international clean technology investments, the American Power Act contains no such dedicated funding stream nor a program to guide these public investments. This lack of secure, long-term funding would limit the job-creating potential of the legislation by limiting the opportunities for American companies to export their energy technology to global markets.

The biological corridors includes core protected areas, forest and wetland habitats outside of protected areas, agricultural lands and settlements. As an integral component of the proposed project, a long-term financial plan will be developed based on the review of current and future costs of managing the corridors by gathering information from government, community, and private investments. ; PES-1 (Payments for Environmental Services Associate Award)

WWF, CARE, and IIED launched a joint program in 2006 to establish equitable payments for watershed services (PWS) in ten watersheds in five countries located in Latin America, Africa and Asia (Guatemala, Peru, Tanzania, Indonesia and the Philippines). The ten watersheds selected as project sites all have three features in common: high levels of biodiversity, high rates of land-use change affecting watershed services, and high levels of poverty. The program, which has received funding from the Dutch and Danish governments (DGIS and DANIDA), aims to demonstrate how equitable PWS can reverse forest loss through addressing the core drivers of land-use change, as well as improve livelihoods through various forms of compensation, including direct payments. ; PES-1 (Payments for Environmental Services Associate Award)

Many companies rely on natural resources, and securing the flow of ecosystem services may be directly related to their business's bottom line. Other businesses have a considerable environmental impact or produce significant harmful emissions; they may find that paying to increase the flow of ES (e.g., carbon offsets or biodiversity offsets) is an economical way to neutralize their footprint. Insurance companies and coastal area developers may find that increasing the provision of ES is the cheapest way to reduce the risk of natural hazard. However, caring for the environment and paying for ES is not the sole responsibility of the private sector. Governments, communities, and NGOs share the burden of protecting the environment. Governments must work out the rules of the game, prime the pump, and in many cases be the direct procurers of some ecosystem services (public goods). Community and conservation NGOs must ensure that ES and PES are pursued with equity -balancing the interests of people and nature- to increase job and income opportunities for the rural poor and deliver real, on-the-ground conservation. Finding creative and equitable business arrangements is not a new concept, and companies that have already embraced corporate social and environmental responsibility are well positioned to take advantage of the business opportunities inherent in the five PES Business Models described within. In recent years, there has been an upsurge of initiatives to increase society's awareness of ecosystem services and a rush to devise mechanisms to pay for sustaining them. The business sector is bound to be a key player here, as a buyer and a seller of ecosystem services as well as a market developer and innovator. With this in mind, in November 2006, WWF invited a dozen representatives of some of the world's largest food, beverage, energy, and mining companies to join staff from government agencies, financial institutions, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Vienna to exchange ideas and identify collaborative opportunities. ; PES-1 (Payments for Environmental Services Associate Award)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword to the First Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Preface to the Enlarged Edition -- Abbreviations -- 1. Lessons from History -- 2. The Science: Models of Uncertainty -- 3. Spray Cans and Europolitics -- 4. Prelude to Consensus -- 5. Forging the U.S. Position -- 6. The Sequence of Negotiations -- 7. Points of Debate -- 8. The Immediate Aftermath -- 9. New Science, New Urgency -- 10. The Road to Helsinki -- 11. The Protocol in Evolution -- 12. The South Claims a Role -- 13. Strong Decisions in. London -- 14. Accelerating the Phaseout -- 15. A New Phase for the Protocol -- 16. "Common but Differentiated Responsibilities" -- 17. Promoting Compliance -- 18. New Controls for North and South -- 19. A New Global Diplomacy: Ozone Lessons and Climate Change -- Chronology -- Appendix A Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, March 1985 -- Appendix B Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, September 1987 -- Appendix C London Revisions to the Montreal Protocol, June 1990 (Excerpts) -- Appendix D Montreal Protocol Phaseout Schedules -- Appendix E Terms of Reference for the Multilateral Fund -- Appendix F Terms of Reference of the Executive Committee -- Appendix G Noncompliance Procedure -- Appendix H The Nearly Universal Treaty: Parties to the 1985 Vienna Convention and 1987 Montreal Protocol, with Ratifications to the 1990 London and 1992 Copenhagen Amendments -- Notes -- Select Ozone Bibliography (cited in chronological order) -- Index

KNO: In Zusammenarbeit mit dem World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) entstand dieses Buch als ein eindringlicher Aufruf an alle, sich für gefährdete Tierarten und deren Lebensräume einzusetzen. In dem Bewusstsein, dass die Zukunft der Menschheit ohne den Erhalt der biologischen Vielfalt nicht möglich ist, stellt dieser fulminante Bildband diejenigen Tierarten vor, die am stärksten vom Aussterben bedroht sind.Detailliert werden die einzelnen Spezies und die Lebensbedingungen in ihren Habitaten beschrieben, ergänzt von der Darstellung der Maßnahmen, mit Hilfe derer der WWF die Erhaltung der Art sichern will. Hierzu zählen vor allem Projekte, bei denen die örtliche Bevölkerung mit einbezogen wird. Informative Karten zu Beginn jedes Kapitels zeigen die Verbreitung der jeweiligen Arten.