DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2016.1242056
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85002243981
论文题名: The contribution of forest carbon credit projects to addressing the climate change challenge
作者: van der Gaast W ; , Sikkema R ; , Vohrer M
刊名: Climate Policy
ISSN: 1469-3062
EISSN: 1752-7457
出版年: 2018
卷: 18, 期: 1 起始页码: 42
结束页码: 48
语种: 英语
英文关键词: carbon trading
; climate policy frameworks
; CO2 allowances
; emission trading schemes
; forestry sector
; NDCs
Scopus关键词: afforestation
; carbon dioxide
; carbon emission
; carbon sequestration
; clean development mechanism
; deforestation
; developing world
; emissions trading
; environmental economics
; environmental policy
; forest management
; forestry production
; reforestation
Scopus学科分类: nvironmental Science: General Environmental Science
; Earth and Planetary Sciences: Atmospheric Science
英文摘要: This article addresses the question of how forestry projects, given the recently improved standards for the accounting of carbon sequestration, can benefit from existing and emerging carbon markets in the world. For a long time, forestry projects have been set up for the purpose of generating carbon credits. They were surrounded by uncertainties about the permanence of carbon sequestration in trees, potential replacement of deforestation due to projects (leakage), and how and what to measure as sequestered carbon. Through experience with Joint Implementation (JI) and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) forestry projects, albeit limited, and with forestry projects in voluntary carbon markets, considerable improvements have been made with accounting of carbon sequestration in forests, resulting in a more solid basis for carbon credit trading. The scope of selling these credits exists both in compliance markets, although currently with strong limitations, and in voluntary markets for offsetting emissions with carbon credits. Improved carbon accounting methods for forestry investments can also enhance the scope for forestry in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) that countries must prepare under the Paris Agreement. POLICY RELEVANCE This article identifies how forestry projects can contribute to climate change mitigation. Forestry projects have addressed a number of challenges, like reforestation, afforestation on degraded lands, and long-term sustainable forest management. An interesting new option for forestry carbon projects could be the NDCs under the Paris Agreement in December 2015. Initially, under CDM and JI, the number of forestry projects was far below that for renewable energy projects. With the adoption of the Paris Agreement, both developed and developing countries have agreed on NDCs for country-specific measures on climate change mitigation, and increased the need for investing in new measures. Over the years, considerable experience has been built up with forestry projects that fix CO2 over a long-term period. Accounting rules are nowadays at a sufficient level for the large potential of forestry projects to deliver a reliable, additional contribution towards reducing or halting emissions from deforestation and forest degradation activities worldwide. © 2016, © European Union 2016. Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/80207
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作者单位: JIN Climate and Sustainability, Laan Corpus den Hoorn 300, Groningen, Netherlands; Joint Research Centre (European Commission), Directorate Sustainable Resources, Bio Economy Unit (D1), Via Enrico Fermi, 2749, Ispra, VA, Italy; Forest Carbon Working Group, FSC International, Bonn, Germany; Land Use & Forests, The Gold Standard Foundation, Cointrin, Switzerland
Recommended Citation:
van der Gaast W,, Sikkema R,, Vohrer M. The contribution of forest carbon credit projects to addressing the climate change challenge[J]. Climate Policy,2018-01-01,18(1)