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Emissions of CO2 from fisheries: analysis of reductions achieved through a national program focused on the artisanal fleet in Mexico
- Source :
- Carbon Management. 8:9-17
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2017.
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Abstract
- The sustainable achievement of low-carbon economies is at the heart of the Paris Climate Change Agreement. Government policies are expected, at the country level, to be designed and implemented in support of this commitment. This paper reports on reductions in CO2 emissions achieved by an ongoing federal program in Mexico focused on artisanal or small-scale fisheries (SSFs). Launched in 2008, this technological change-focused program substitutes old two-stroke outboard motors with fourstroke ones, which offer more efficient gasoline consumption and also reduce CO2 emissions. The program's annual emissions reduction target is 0.2% of the total annual national target of 83.2 million tonnes in CO2 emissions reductions, according to the 2014–2018 Special Climate Change Program in Mexico (known by its Spanish acronym, PECC). Based on primary-source information gathered from SSFs through fieldwork at the national level for the period 2008–2015, the reductions achieved in gasoline consumption produce a c...
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Consumption (economics)
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
Public policy
Climate change
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
01 natural sciences
Fishery
Climate Change Agreement
Country level
040102 fisheries
0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
National level
Business
General Environmental Science
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Details
- ISSN :
- 17583012 and 17583004
- Volume :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Carbon Management
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........e794a8b9d99b6f64e2e6372d48d58e1e