Biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation: what role can economic instruments play?

Ring, Irene; Drechsler, Martín; Teeffelen, A.J.A. van; Irawan, Silvia; Venter, Oscar

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2010.02.004

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“…Without proper compensation, local governments will have no incentive to support REDD, as they would face forgone taxes, fees, and shared-revenue, while receiving almost no benefits [61]. Financial incentives for REDD, at the very minimum, should compensate for the cost of its implementation, including opportunity costs [16,62,63].…”

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Opportunity Costs of Carbon Emissions Stemming from Changes in Land Use

Liu

2015

Sustainability

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Abstract:The REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) mechanism allows carbon sinks to be used as carbon credits in order to offset emissions from other sources. However, this practice has raised a number of issues relating to financial incentives. In this study, we develop a spatially explicit model for predicting carbon emissions from deforestation that meet baseline levels as well as farmers' opportunity costs (measured in US dollars per ton of CO2e) under three temporal scenarios with several potential discount rates for agricultural income. Additionally, we use two different accounting methods recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), including the average storage method and the "ton-year approach," to evaluate emissions reductions. We find that farmers are more likely to prefer REDD in the short-run when discount rates are higher than 10%. However, further analysis indicates that opportunity costs would increase significantly over longer periods of time (middle-term schemes of 35 years or long-term schemes of 55 years), thereby dissuading farmers from choosing REDD. Our findings highlight the drawbacks in using REDD to mitigate global climate change and conserve forests based on farmers' financial incentives.

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Opportunity Costs of Carbon Emissions Stemming from Changes in Land Use

Liu

2015

Sustainability

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“…The essence of this financial tool is the redistribution of funding from national to local authorities to compensate for income loss for some local governments due to the large share of protected land. Such a financial tool has been successfully introduced in Portugal, Germany and Brazil [34][35][36]. Other countries that have not introduced reimbursement programs, attempt to deal with ownership conflicts within the protected areas (the most commonly in newly established or enlarged national parks and Natura 2000 areas) by employing tools such as negotiations, mediations or financial compensation.…”

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Effectiveness of Nature Conservation - A Case of Natura 2000 Sites in Poland

Grodzińska‐Jurczak¹,

Strzelecka²,

Kamal³

et al. 2012

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“…Proponents of this model argue that markets for these services would efficiently deal with the positive and negative externalities of the production of goods and services derived from natural resources (Ferraro and Kiss 2002). Market-based schemes based on PES (as well as on rewards or compensation payment schemes) were added to other economic incentives such as certification and conservation easements (Arrow et al 2007, Ring et al 2009). The current proposal to implement payments to reduce emissions from tropical deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) represents the latest example of how the international community has considered market-based strategies to effectively combat global climate change (Angelsen 2011).…”

Section: Evolution Of Conservation and Development Strategies In The mentioning

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Conservation and Development in Latin America and Southern Africa: Setting the Stage

Romero¹,

Athayde²,

Collomb³

et al. 2012

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ABSTRACT. The articles in this Special Feature stem from a 2010 conference (Bridging Conservation and Development in Latin America and Africa) organized by the University of Florida's Tropical Conservation Development Program, Center for African Studies, and Center for Latin American Studies. The conference involved researchers and practitioners from Africa and Latin America focused on the complex and evolving relationship between conservation and development. The conference provided bridges between academics and non-academics, conservation and development, and theory and practice. The resulting comparative analyses focus on: empowerment of local institutions; enhanced capacity of local and regional stakeholders through a recognition and validation of local knowledge systems and the creation of knowledge networks; understanding of social and natural landscapes, history, contexts, and their evolution; and the roles of economic and market forces in shaping opportunities for using market-based incentives to promote conservation and development. In this introductory article we propose a conceptual framework based on the six connected pillars of natural resource characteristics, interactions of social actors, governance and participation, politics, information exchange, and economic issues that support spaces for both conflicts and synergies between conservation and development goals. Our goal is to foster informed dialogue and social learning to promote sustainability.

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Biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation: what role can economic instruments play?

Cited by 68 publications

References 39 publications

Opportunity Costs of Carbon Emissions Stemming from Changes in Land Use

Opportunity Costs of Carbon Emissions Stemming from Changes in Land Use

Effectiveness of Nature Conservation - A Case of Natura 2000 Sites in Poland

Conservation and Development in Latin America and Southern Africa: Setting the Stage

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