scholarly journals The economic costs of planting, preserving, and managing the world’s forests to mitigate climate change

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. G. Austin ◽  
J. S. Baker ◽  
B. L. Sohngen ◽  
C. M. Wade ◽  
A. Daigneault ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Carbon Price ◽  
Private Land ◽  
Economic Costs ◽  
Mitigation Potential ◽  
Mitigation Costs ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Prices

AbstractForests are critical for stabilizing our climate, but costs of mitigation over space, time, and stakeholder group remain uncertain. Using the Global Timber Model, we project mitigation potential and costs for four abatement activities across 16 regions for carbon price scenarios of $5–$100/tCO2. We project 0.6–6.0 GtCO2 yr−1 in global mitigation by 2055 at costs of 2–393 billion USD yr−1, with avoided tropical deforestation comprising 30–54% of total mitigation. Higher prices incentivize larger mitigation proportions via rotation and forest management activities in temperate and boreal biomes. Forest area increases 415–875 Mha relative to the baseline by 2055 at prices $35–$100/tCO2, with intensive plantations comprising <7% of this increase. Mitigation costs borne by private land managers comprise less than one-quarter of total costs. For forests to contribute ~10% of mitigation needed to limit global warming to 1.5 °C, carbon prices will need to reach $281/tCO2 in 2055.

Potential of Community-Based Forest Management to Mitigate Climate Change in the Philippines

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodel D. Lasco ◽  
Remedios S. Evangelista ◽  
Florencia B. Pulhin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change

Revisiting forestry’s crystal ball

2009 ◽  
Vol 85 (5) ◽  
pp. 710-714
Author(s):  
Winifred B Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Sustainable Forestry ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Energy Crisis ◽  
Crystal Ball

This paper revisits 3 broad predictions about forestry’s future presented by the author in 1993: the growing importance of products that come from forests, forests increasingly valued for more than the sum of their products and uses, and better appreciation of forests as complex ecological systems controlled by forces larger than humans. These predictions have played out in more dramatic ways than initially envisioned, driven in part by 3 emergent forces: the energy crisis, the ascension of new economic superpowers, and climate change. Examples of these trends and relationships are examined from Canadian and United States contexts. Key words: ecosystem services, forests and climate change, forests and global warming, forest biofuels, forest management trends, sustainable forestry

scholarly journals The Comparative Politics of Climate Change

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Harrison ◽  
Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Economic Costs ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Government Action ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Change Leaders ◽  
Abatement Policies ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change

The authors use a comparative politics framework, examining electoral interests, policy-maker's own normative commitments, and domestic political institutions as factors influencing Annex 1 countries' decisions on Kyoto Protocol ratification and adoption of national policies to mitigate climate change. Economic costs and electoral interests matter a great deal, even when policy-makers are morally motivated to take action on climate change. Leaders' normative commitments may carry the day under centralized institutional conditions, but these commitments can be reversed when leaders change. Electoral systems, federalism, and executive-legislative institutional configurations all influence ratification decisions and subsequent policy adoption. Although institutional configurations may facilitate or hinder government action, high levels of voter concern can trump institutional obstacles. Governments' decisions to ratify, and the reduction targets they face upon ratification, do not necessarily determine their approach to carbon emissions abatement policies: for example, ratifying countries that accept demanding targets may fail to take significant action.

Iran deal will not relaunch nuclear power globally

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Power Generation ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Nuclear Power Generation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Safety Risks ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Prices

Subject Impact of the Iran deal on civil nuclear energy. Significance The deal between Iran and the P5+1 powers (five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) will have little effect on the global deployment of nuclear power technology. The agreement could pave the way for new civil nuclear power generation in Iran. Elsewhere, civil nuclear power's prospects are restrained by high costs compared to alternatives, safety risks and political acceptance. Impacts Advanced nuclear power countries will encourage newcomers to meet their needs for nuclear fuel by relying on existing suppliers. Countries investing in new civil nuclear power are unlikely to also seek weapons capability. Low oil and carbon prices and the apparent reluctance of countries to mitigate climate change will constrain nuclear power investment.

scholarly journals COMBINING MULTIPLE CLIMATE POLICY INSTRUMENTS: HOW NOT TO DO IT

2010 ◽  
Vol 01 (03) ◽  
pp. 209-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
SAMUEL FANKHAUSER ◽  
CAMERON HEPBURN ◽  
JISUNG PARK
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Tax ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Carbon Price ◽  
Reserve Price ◽  
Cap And Trade ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Hybrid Instruments ◽  
Carbon Prices

Putting a price on carbon is critical for climate change policy. Increasingly, policymakers combine multiple policy tools to achieve this, for example by complementing cap-and-trade schemes with a carbon tax, or with a feed-in tariff. Often, the motivation for doing so is to limit undesirable fluctuations in the carbon price, either from rising too high or falling too low. This paper reviews the implications for the carbon price of combining cap-and-trade with other policy instruments. We find that price intervention may not always have the desired effect. Simply adding a carbon tax to an existing cap-and-trade system reduces the carbon price in the market to such an extent that the overall price signal (tax plus carbon price) may remain unchanged. Generous feed-in tariffs or renewable energy obligations within a capped area have the same effect: they undermine the carbon price in the rest of the trading regime, likely increasing costs without reducing emissions. Policymakers wishing to support carbon prices should turn to hybrid instruments — that is, trading schemes with price-like features, such as an auction reserve price — to make sure their objectives are met.

scholarly journals Impact of climate change on phenology of Delonix regia (Bojer ex Hook.) Raf. across Mumbai

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suraliwala Farhan ◽  
Gopalkrishnan Bindu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Flowering Time ◽  
Flowering Plants ◽  
Cassia Fistula ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Delonix Regia ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Samanea Saman ◽  
Over Time

The average annual temperatures are gradually increasing over time since few decades. This has led to global warming and change in climate. The increase in temperature has not only affected the humans but the flora too. In many flowering plants the temperature has altered the phenology (timing) of flowering, example Cassia fistula, Samanea saman, Delonix regia etc. An attempt is made to investigate the tree Delonix regia (Bojer ex Hook.) Raf. commonly known as Gulmohar. It is monitored for its flowering time since 2016 to 2019. The area selected for study was Bhayandar, Mira road, Andheri and Vile Parle in Mumbai. The data obtained was further analyzed with the literature from different Flora’s and research papers. The actual flowering time according to the old literature was April to June. Since few years it has been observed that Gulmohar flowered twice i.e. October to December and also April to June. The amount of flowers bloomed during October – December was scanty while mass bloom was witnessed during April to June. The phenology of flowering has shifted earlier in response to warming during October – December. The shift in the timing of flowering may have resulted in reproductive failure in the plant. This behaviour of plants is of great concern. More broadly it is important to mitigate climate change by controlling global warming in order to conserve the D. regia trees. It can be used as bio indicator stating the climate change in Mumbai.

scholarly journals Climate Change Responsibles

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. p1
Author(s):  
Jan-Erik Lane
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Public Debt ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Policy Coordination ◽  
Economic Costs ◽  
Climate Change Policies ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Global Environmental Policy ◽  
Lower Production

The Covid disaster keeps ravaging Planet Earth. It is hardly a turning point for global environmental policy coordination. The economic costs of the corona virus are now arriving in the form of unemployment, lower production and steeply increasing deficits and public debt. How to manage the much needed climate change policies? The big polluters are governed by leaders who fail to take global warming seriously.

scholarly journals Sustainability in Material Purchasing: A Multi-Objective Economic Order Quantity Model under a Cap and Trade System

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daria Battini ◽  
Martina Calzavara ◽  
Ilaria Isolan ◽  
Fabio Sgarbossa ◽  
Francesco Zangaro
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Lot Sizing ◽  
Carbon Price ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Purchasing Decisions ◽  
Cap And Trade ◽  
Mitigation Policy ◽  
Trading Systems ◽  
Multi Objective ◽  
Carbon Prices

Sustainability in material purchasing is a growing area of research. Goods purchasing decisions strongly affect transportation path flows, vehicle consolidation, inventory levels and related obsolescence costs. Within a global sourcing context, companies experience the need of new decision making approaches capable to consider a large variety of factors, also linked with society and environment. Environmental impact assessment has become a key requirement for materials purchasing and transportation decisions since global warming is a rising concern both in academic and industrial researches. In fact, it is well known that the freight transport industry is responsible for large amounts of carbon emissions contributing to global warming. In this paper, we initially analyse and compare the environmental economic policies established by the International Governments in relation to the carbon trading systems adopted. Then, we develop a multi-objective lot sizing approach useful in practice to define the sustainable quantity to purchase when a Cap and Trade mitigation policy is present. We further analyse the model behaviour according to different carbon price values by demonstrating that carbon prices are still far too low to motivate managers towards sustainable purchasing choices.

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