Carbon‐accounting methods and reforestation incentives

Cacho, Oscar J.; Hean, Robyn L.; Wise, Russell M.

doi:10.1111/1467-8489.00208

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“…Carbon sequestration enhancement involves increasing carbon stored in the ecosystem Richard and Stokes 2004;Cacho et al 2003). This is accomplished by some combination of increasing carbon inputs to the soil or reducing carbon decomposition.…”

Section: Agricultural Based Emissionsmentioning

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Land Use and Climate Change

McCarl

Attavanich

Musumba

et al. 2014

The Oxford Handbook of Land Economics

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Land use is majorly involved with climate change concerns and this chapter discusses and reviews the interrelationships between the vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation aspects of land use and climate change. We review a number of key studies on climate change issues regarding land productivity, land use and land management (LPLULM), identifying key findings, pointing out research needs, and raising economic/policy questions to ponder.Overall, this chapter goes beyond previous reviews and simultaneously treats the troika of vulnerability, mitigation and adaptation aspects of the issue, which will provide readers with a more comprehensive, multifaceted grasp of the spectrum of current issues regarding LPLULM and climate change.

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Section: Agricultural Based Emissionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Land Use and Climate Change

McCarl

Attavanich

Musumba

et al. 2014

The Oxford Handbook of Land Economics

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“…However, there is a lack of symmetry between the credits and debits, which we show is important in avoiding social costs. Moreover, the ton year concept accumulates credits very slowly, rendering it unattractive financially (Cacho et al 2003). …”

Section: Criticisms Of Voluntary Offsetsmentioning

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“…In practice a "pay as you go" system is accomplished in the Chicago Climate Exchange where actual CO 2 e removals are traded on a spot market. In a system of contemporary crediting and debiting the role for insurance would be in hedging against the cost of debits required if the project was destroyed by fire (Cacho et al 2003). An alternative to insurance on a case by case basis is the issue of guarantees of permanency by governments or by schemes that have large portfolios and can spread the costs of untoward debits.…”

Section: Market Implications Of Adopting Incremental Crediting and Dementioning

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The ‘hidden’ social costs of forestry offsets

Hunt

Baum

2008

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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The article quantifies the size of 'hidden' social costs that are incurred by forestry offsets in the voluntary market that promise to offset present emissions sometime in the future. It does this by estimating the difference between the social costs of carbon emitted and of costs offset by removal of carbon (C) from the atmosphere by reforestation/afforestation. All current attempts to make forestry offsets more reliable focus on quality control rather than the mismatch of the timing of emissions and their offset. Recommendations that follow from the analysis are twofold. First, that markets for carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2 e) removals by voluntary offsets should be confined to the annual incremental removals actually achieved. Second, the promoters of voluntary offsets projects should declare the annual stream of carbon credits and debits expected so that buyers can place a present value on such projects.

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“…Las preocupaciones ambientales por el cambio climático, asociadas con el aumento de las concentraciones de gases de efecto invernadero en la atmósfera, han llevado a la adición de valores de captura de carbono de los ecosistemas forestales para el proceso de planificación forestal de uso múltiple (Asante & Armstrong, 2012). Los ecosistemas forestales absorben enormes cantidades de CO 2 de la atmósfera mediante la fotosíntesis y contribuyen a la reducción de emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero (Cacho, Hean, & Wise, 2003). En este contexto, las plantaciones forestales de rápido crecimiento han tenido gran importancia a nivel mundial.…”

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Edades óptimas de corte en bosques de álamos híbridos incluyendo captación de carbono: Un estudio de caso en Turquía

Keleş¹

2016

Rev Cha Se Cie For y del Amb

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It also evaluates the effects of different discount rates and carbon prices on the optimum cutting ages using net present value approach. The growth and yield curves and biomass/ carbon conversion factors for hybrid poplar plantations with forest plantation costs are used to determine the optimum cutting ages. Results of the case study showed that the integration of carbon sequestration benefits into wood benefits increased the optimum cutting ages of hybrid poplar plantations. Optimum cutting ages decreased from 19 to 14 years depending on the increase in discount rates. When carbon prices increased, the optimum cutting ages also increased from 17 to 20 years. In the presence of carbon sequestration benefits, increasing the optimum cutting age yields net economic benefits of 374 to 1,654 US$·ha -1. Total net present values obtained from wood production and carbon sequestration benefits increased between 6 and 26 % depending on the increase in carbon prices (from 0 to 40 US$·t -1 carbon). ResumenE n la actualidad, la determinación de las edades óptimas de corte, incluyendo diversos valores de ecosistemas forestales junto con la producción de madera, es extremadamente importante en la silvicultura. Este estudio presenta las edades óptimas de corte en Populus x euramericana (Dode) Guinier cv. I-214, incluyendo la producción de madera y los valores de captura de carbono en Turquía. También se evalúan los efectos de las tasas de descuento y precios del carbono en las edades óptimas de corte, utilizando el método del valor actual neto. Las curvas de crecimiento y rendimiento y los factores de conversión de carbono/biomasa con costos de plantación forestales se utilizaron para determinar las edades óptimas de corte. Los resultados del estudio de caso mostraron que la integración de los beneficios de captura de carbono con los beneficios de la madera incrementó las edades óptimas de corte de los bosques de álamo híbrido. Las edades óptimas de corte descendieron de 19 a 14 años, dependiendo del aumento en las tasas de descuento. Cuando los precios de carbono aumentaron, las edades óptimas de corte también aumentaron de 17 a 20 años. En presencia de los beneficios de captura de carbono, el aumento de las edades óptimas de corte produjo beneficios económicos netos de 374 a 1,654 USD·ha -1 . Los valores actuales netos totales, obtenidos de la producción de madera y beneficios de captura de carbono, aumentaron entre 6 y 26 %, dependiendo del aumento de los precios del carbono (de 0 a 40 USD·t -1 carbono).Received: December 10, 2015 / Accepted: June 15, 2016.Palabras clave: Edad de corte, manejo forestal, cambio climático, valor actual neto, captura de carbono.

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Carbon‐accounting methods and reforestation incentives

Cited by 105 publications

References 10 publications

Land Use and Climate Change

Land Use and Climate Change

The ‘hidden’ social costs of forestry offsets

Edades óptimas de corte en bosques de álamos híbridos incluyendo captación de carbono: Un estudio de caso en Turquía

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