POLS 3370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Marine Stewardship Council, Yasuni National Park, Sustainable Seafood
12 Dec 2017
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Certification programs: the marine stewardship council: established in london 1996, uses eco-labeling and certification to reward sustainable fishing practices, inform consumer choices, over 18,000 products in 100 countries with 2oo certified fisheries, wwf is on its stakeholder council. Greenspace: greenspace is of the opinion that no fully credible certification system for sustainable seafood currently exists, greenspace acknowledges msc"s professional operation and its transparency and stakeholder involvement at all levels, but does not endorse msc. Paying for ecological services: the case of yasuni itt: 2007, ecuadorian government announces a pes that would forgo oil exploration in. Including a longstanding lawsuit against chevron, whose subsidiary. Texaco is accused of polluting extensive areas of the amazon in the 1970s and 80s: deforestation. It"s estimated that ecuador lost over 20% of its forest cover between 1990 and 2005, largely as a result of forestry, urbanization, agriculture, and oil and gas.
