scholarly journals Estimating Leakage from Forest Carbon Sequestration Programs

2004 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian C. Murray ◽  
Bruce A. McCarl ◽  
Heng-Chi Lee
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (13) ◽  
pp. eaay6792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Favero ◽  
Adam Daigneault ◽  
Brent Sohngen

There is a continuing debate over the role that woody bioenergy plays in climate mitigation. This paper clarifies this controversy and illustrates the impacts of woody biomass demand on forest harvests, prices, timber management investments and intensity, forest area, and the resulting carbon balance under different climate mitigation policies. Increased bioenergy demand increases forest carbon stocks thanks to afforestation activities and more intensive management relative to a no-bioenergy case. Some natural forests, however, are converted to more intensive management, with potential biodiversity losses. Incentivizing both wood-based bioenergy and forest sequestration could increase carbon sequestration and conserve natural forests simultaneously. We conclude that the expanded use of wood for bioenergy will result in net carbon benefits, but an efficient policy also needs to regulate forest carbon sequestration.


Ecosphere ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyson L. Swetnam ◽  
Paul D. Brooks ◽  
Holly R. Barnard ◽  
Adrian A. Harpold ◽  
Erika L. Gallo

2012 ◽  
Vol 427 ◽  
pp. 203-207
Author(s):  
Yu Shu Cui ◽  
Hong Ling Shao ◽  
Li Yan Ma

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.


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