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Essay Instructions: This paper should be an issue brief about the dangers on deforestation of rainforest in brazil, it should be written an audience of politicians. These are required:

Quantitatively analyze 10 articles dealing with your issue over 5 years and identify 3 key themes and important trends reported in the technical literature.

Quantitatively analyze and graph 10 mass media coverage using the same approach you used for the scientific literature.

As I said, it should be an issue brief written by Natural Resource expert for audience of politicians.

Essay Instructions: The research paper is about the role nongovernment agencies play in environmental corporate social responsibility using chiquita banana and the Rainforest alliance. I have attached a the research proposal I created

Essay Instructions: I picked to write a research paper on the rainforest and explain both sides that people believe. To save the rainforest and the side of the loggers and everyone else trying to make a living destroying them. I have to provide both views but persuade people toward my side of saving the rainforest and what is going to happen if we don't start to take action.
I have to do a 6 page paper, with 5 sources documented, note cards, outline and I also have to hand in a rough draft. I need works cited/bibliography, notes, rough draft and an outline.

Essay Instructions: Prior to completing my dissertation I Require a 4000 word, harvard referenced project proposal report on the following topic.

"Can corporate carbon trading save the rainforests"

My idea being current enviromental laws will eventually lead to a demand on business to reduce or offset there co2 emissions, as many will be unable to reduce them to a sustainable level they will need to pay for offsets - these are currently traded at an international level and are a form of tradable certificate backed by a co2 reducing asset such as forests. (trees naturally scrub the atmosphere and sequest carbon), as trees are in limited supply I would extend my hypothesis that as enviromental damage increases and laws become stricter that through the trading of co2 offsets backed by rainforests or similar carbon reducing assets at both an international (and corporation / small and medium company level ) trees would become more in demand and at some point it would become more cost effective to save the rainforests as a c02 offset than for them to be destroyed for there wood. I apprecite however that this will require stricter laws forcing corporations to offset there emissions, but feel that current international laws on co2 trading will eventually have to filter down to a corporate level.

Topics to cover on the actual dissertation would include

1. Discussion on rainforests, ecological deforestation, rising co2 levels, future problems.
2. Potential options to save the rainforests and then lead in to carbon trading.
2. Discussion on recent govermental / european and global laws on carbon trading at a country level.
3. Discuss the potential for widening the current use of country level carbon trading to individual corporate level and the potential in europe / states and globally for this to become law / trends leaning this way. ie clean air laws, which countries are heading down this route.
4. Extension of national carbon trading to a small, medium and large business,
discuss ways to create such a market - demand and supply, show comparisions with other similar
markets for similar type traded financial / physical products - ie gold etc. problems to be overcome.
5. Potential for increased carbon trading in line with increasing efforts towards corporate social responsibility. ie not waiting for stricter laws.
6. Is the market big enough, will it have an effect, if so timelines.
7. Extending the principle to allow for differing pricing structures such as those based on both co2 offset and the actual biodiversity within the asset. ie. young growing trees such as scandanavian firs take more co2 out of the atmosphere than established trees hwoever there is little biodiversity.
8. Discussion on establishing a price for the asset, international standards etc. Discuss historical cost of co2 offsets / time line / is cost rising - at what point is it cheaper to save the rainforest as an asset in itself than to cut it down for its specific wood resource.
9 Problems with purchasing other country resources etc....

I will zip over the actual question and sundry documents which include :

1. 3 page Project Proposal for methods of inquiry into the above discussion topic.
2. 3 page of Supplementary guidelines to the report.
3. 7 Pages of contents pages from the individual sections which make up the methods of inquiry course to give you an indication of topics covered.
4. 17 pages of course notes on creating a research paper.

Report is to be 4000 words in length (excluding the bibliography) and should comprise a short abstract of 150 words, an introduction , the main body of the project including critical review of current literature an outline of the proposed research and design method, a conclusion and bibliography
There are faxes for this order.