Master thesis Merle Larro.pdf
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… from schemes based on privately organised certification, to organisations or individuals who want to reduce their carbon footprint through voluntary emission offsets (Kreibich & Hermwille, 2021). Carbon banking is an alternative approach in carbon trading: instead of remunerating CS in trees by a one-time payment, the idea of a carbon bank is applied, where sequestered carbon creates 17 a deposit, from which buyers “borrow” through annual payments (Bigsby, 2009, p. 382). Bigsby (2009) proposes … and meaning (a source of information for the reader; documentation, encompassing accountability, insurance, potential to upscale, and consistency for author and projects). The documents sourced share the following characteristics: accessibility online, a link to at least one of the key actors and relevance to the thesis topic, as they are in one way or the 27 other linked to the project Solidaridad ECA Uganda (see Appendix C for an overview of included documents). Thus, the documents were … Location Around Mount Elgon, Uganda Note. Colouring in Uganda on the African continent was done with MapChart (2023). The case study project´s location was delineated on a map of Uganda by GISGeography (2022). The key actors to be interviewed in online interviews were deduced from Wunder´s (2015) definition of payment for ecosystem services (PES, see p. 18). Interviewees were reached by snowballing from contacts of the Fair & Smart Data research project at Maastricht University, who 28 …