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Building institutions to trade ecosystem services: Marketing forest carbon in Mexico [1]

This paper analyzes institutional design, organizational capacity, and interplay in markets for ecosystem services. It examines the development of a market-based mechanism to commercialize forest carbon in Mexico through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). This is compared with a State-run carbon forestry program aiming to provide emission rights to voluntary, retail-based, carbon markets.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2008
Esteve Corbera [2], Katrina Brown [3]
World Development [4]
36
10
1956-1979
Tags:
Ecosystem Services [5], Forests [6], Mexico [7], South America [8], Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) [9], Climate Change [10], Emissions Trading [11], UNFCCC [12], Kyoto Protocol [13], Carbon Sequestration [14], Green House Gases [15]
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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/esteve-corbera
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/katrina-brown
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/world-development
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ecosystem-services
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forests
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mexico
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/south-america
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/clean-development-mechanism-cdm
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/emissions-trading
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/unfccc
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/kyoto-protocol
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-sequestration
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/green-house-gases