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… water-holding capacity is heavily reliant on soil organic carbon and therefore depleting organic carbon through poor land management leads to lower soil … investment in water technology enables rich nations to offset this impact, whereas less wealthy nations remain …

… the evolution from own use to shared use. In 2015, the Carbon Trust pointed to businesses simultaneously living in … of detail required before 2009). 8 Formerly called the ‘Carbon Disclosure Project’ but, with its broader remit … site-based water footprints through a localised offset does not attempt to address the major water use …

… rates of evapotranspiration. Planting forests for wood and carbon increases the amount of green water used by forests … metals. POPs are toxic substances composed of organic (carbon- based) chemical compounds and mixtures that persist … and natural biodiversity. Irrigated land may also help offset carbon emissions, since certain crops can help absorb …

… jeopardize the health and productivity of land: higher carbon emissions and temperatures, changing rainfall … require shifts away from resource-intensive production, carbon-intensive processing and transport, land-intensive … costs of exploitation were seen as diffuse and/or easily offset. More recently, we have come to understand that this …

… in 2004 recorded an unprecedented surge in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels. The value of 379 parts per … Calcium carbonate plays an important role in regulating carbon sequestration in oceans. Increased CO2 uptake gives … subtropical evaporation under global warming) may offset the freshening from high latitude precipitation and …

… Leea Wasenius Layout Taittopalvelu Yliveto Oy Saarijärven Offset Oy Saarijärvi 2015 iii Contents Foreword … 41–50; Harri Laurikka and Anna–Pia Schreyögg, ‘The Global Carbon Market – a Disappearing Vision?’ Review 2010, 51–64; … ‘Brazil’s National Policy on Climate Change and the Carbon Market’, Review 2010, 163–182; Ed Couzens, …

… Leea Wasenius Layout Taittopalvelu Yliveto Oy Saarijärven Offset Oy Saarijärvi 2015 iii Contents Foreword … 41–50; Harri Laurikka and Anna–Pia Schreyögg, ‘The Global Carbon Market – a Disappearing Vision?’ Review 2010, 51–64; … ‘Brazil’s National Policy on Climate Change and the Carbon Market’, Review 2010, 163–182; Ed Couzens, …

… Leea Wasenius Layout Taittopalvelu Yliveto Oy Saarijärven Offset Oy Saarijärvi 2015 iii Contents Foreword … 41–50; Harri Laurikka and Anna–Pia Schreyögg, ‘The Global Carbon Market – a Disappearing Vision?’ Review 2010, 51–64; … ‘Brazil’s National Policy on Climate Change and the Carbon Market’, Review 2010, 163–182; Ed Couzens, …

… Leea Wasenius Layout Taittopalvelu Yliveto Oy Saarijärven Offset Oy Saarijärvi 2015 iii Contents Foreword … 41–50; Harri Laurikka and Anna–Pia Schreyögg, ‘The Global Carbon Market – a Disappearing Vision?’ Review 2010, 51–64; … ‘Brazil’s National Policy on Climate Change and the Carbon Market’, Review 2010, 163–182; Ed Couzens, …

… groundwater use should be increased in the dry season to offset the shortfall from surface water. Groundwater … may include increased irrigation from groundwater to offset declines in rain-fed crop production. 6 11 MODULE … demand for groundwater is therefore likely to increase to offset this declining surface water availability and, where …