Global forest carbon sequestration and climate policy design

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEVEN K. ROSE ◽  
BRENT SOHNGEN
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Forest Carbon ◽  
Carbon Policy ◽  
Carbon Sequestration Potential ◽  
Carbon Supply ◽  
Sequestration Potential ◽  
Near Term ◽  
Forest Carbon Sequestration ◽  
The Cost

ABSTRACTGlobal forests could play an important role in mitigating climate change. However, there are significant implementation obstacles to accessing the world's forest carbon sequestration potential. The timing of regional participation and eligibility of sequestration activities are issues. The existing forest carbon supply estimates have made optimistic assumptions about immediate, comprehensive, and global access. They have also assumed no interactions between activities and regions, and over time. We use a global forest and land use model to evaluate these assumptions with more realistic forest carbon policy pathways. We find that an afforestation only policy is fundamentally flawed, accelerated deforestation may be unavoidable, and a delayed comprehensive program could reduce, but not eliminate, near-term accelerated deforestation and eventually produce sequestration equivalent to idealized policies – but with a different sequestration mix than previously estimated by others and thereby different forests. We also find that afforestation and avoided deforestation increase the cost of one another.

The Review on Project Management of Wood Carbon Sequestration Materials

2012 ◽  
Vol 427 ◽  
pp. 203-207
Author(s):  
Yu Shu Cui ◽  
Hong Ling Shao ◽  
Li Yan Ma
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Forest Carbon ◽  
Carbon Policy ◽  
Carbon Substitution ◽  
Forest Carbon Sequestration

The forest carbon sinks play an important role in controlling the Greenhouse Gas emissions. The project management of wood carbon sequestration materials will be helpful to attract more and more enterprises to step into forestation, reforestation and technology development for improvement of forest management. That will create a sustainable situation that governments, NGO and corporations join together. Based on the domestic and foreign literature, the paper sorts out the current literature in the direction of forest carbon sequestration managements are from five aspects such as, carbon policy, carbon sequestration, carbon conservation, carbon substitution, carbon benefits. Based on this, the paper puts forward the policy and the long-term objectives of wood carbon sequestration materials should be integration of the implementation.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF URBAN FOREST CARBON SEQUESTRATION CAPACITY: A CASE STUDY OF ZENGDU, SUIZHOU

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W7 ◽  
pp. 1423-1426
Author(s):  
X. Yu ◽  
H. Wang ◽  
W. Cai ◽  
Y. Han
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Forest Ecosystem ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Tree Cover ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Carbon Sequestration Potential ◽  
Sequestration Potential ◽  
Forest Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Major Factors

Carbon-fixing and oxygen-releasing is an important content of forest ecosystem serving in city. Analysis of forest ecosystem carbon sequestration capacity can provide scientific reference for urban forest management strategies. Taking Zengdu of Suizhou as an example, CITYGREEN model was applied to calculate the carbon sequestration benefits of urban forest ecosystem in this paper. And the carbon sequestration potential of urban forest ecosystem following the returning of farmland to forest land is also evaluated. The results show that forest area, percent tree cover, and the structure of forest land were the major factors reflecting regional carbon sequestration capacity.

scholarly journals REDD+ as a tool for state territorialization: managing forests and people in Laos

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabaheta Ramcilovik-Suominen
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Shifting Cultivation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Carbon Sequestration Potential ◽  
The North ◽  
Sequestration Potential

<p>This article analyzes the Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) policy process, through the lens of state territorialization in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos). It explores the motivations, mechanisms and strategies that drive REDD+ policy design and its implementation in the country. The provinces selected for REDD+ activities within the Emission Reduction (ER) Program, as well as the various REDD+ pilot projects are located in the north, where shifting cultivation is widespread, but where the potential for REDD+ to address deforestation and carbon sequestration is not optimal. The provinces with high carbon sequestration potential and high rates of deforestation are not part of the ER Program due to development investment projects and political sensitivity in those areas. REDD+ acts as a tool for state territorialization in a number of ways, including: (i) by targeting the areas where shifting cultivation is widely practiced, aiming to regulate village forest uses and users, (ii) by protecting state political, economic and development goals and strategies, by leaving the profitable large-scale drivers of deforestation unaddressed, including large-scale land investments, hydropower, infrastructure and mining development, and finally (iii) by providing additional motives, tools and discourses for state territorialization, including funding, technologies and the narratives that support it. I highlight, however, that REDD+ is not the sole reason for state territorial politics and practices. Rather, the instrument is layered over previous histories of colonial and post-colonial territorialization processes, continuing a similar logic, rhetoric and management practices. The REDD+ design and its technical orientation, however, appear to provide additional motives, as well as a new pool of resources, technical assistance and modern technologies that intensify the practice and politics of state territoriality in Laos.</p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>Laos, REDD+, state territorialization,<strong> </strong>forest politics, drivers of deforestation</p>

FOREST CARBON ECONOMICS: WHAT WE KNOW, WHAT WE DO NOT AND WHETHER IT MATTERS

2012 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 1250022 ◽  
Author(s):  
NATHAN RICHARDSON ◽  
MOLLY MACAULEY
Keyword(s):  
Policy Design ◽  
Forest Carbon ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Economic Resource ◽  
Watershed Protection ◽  
Fuel Switching ◽  
Current State ◽  
Clean Air ◽  
Forest Carbon Sequestration ◽  
The Cost

They are an important economic resource, and a source of food products, recreation, species habitat, and watershed protection, among many other services. Forests also may store large quantities of carbon. The threat of climate change therefore provides new impetus for forest management, in the form of forest carbon sequestration (FCS). FCS appears to be a relatively cheap way of reducing carbon in the atmosphere, relative to alternatives such as fuel switching. But FCS is not without problems. Economists' estimates of the cost-effectiveness of FCS are highly variable. Verification is difficult. And policy design is complex — not only because of the characteristics of forests themselves, but because of the limitations of current U.S. policy. Existing regulatory tools — predominantly the Clean Air Act — are largely incompatible in providing incentives for FCS. This paper explores the current state of FCS knowledge, including its policy context, and identifies an agenda for future research.

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