Crops and Carbon: Paying Farmers to Combat Climate Change

by Mike Robbins

Book Overview

Rich countries are paying poor countries to fight climate change on their behalf - and one way they are doing it is through carbon sinks. These are reservoirs of organic carbon tied up in plants and in the earth, rather than being in the atmosphere as greenhouse gases. This book looks critically at this mode of climate change mitigation. Can it work? Is it just? Will poorer countries benefit? The book considers the scientific, economic and ethical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138384127
• ISBN13: 9781138384125
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"