Compensated successful efforts for avoided deforestation vs compensated reductions

Tacconi, Luca

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.12.012

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“…This relates to the compensatory system of rewarding the achievement of high levels of C storage and avoidance of C emissions, based on either an output or input approach (Tacconi 2009). The first option refers only to the C stock level, whereas the second relates to the efforts made to achieve that level.…”

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Low carbon emission development strategies for Jambi, Indonesia: simulation and trade-off analysis using the FALLOW model

Mulia

Widayati

Suyanto

et al. 2013

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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Economic growth in rural areas has to align with preservation of land uses that optimise environmental services. This means that trade-offs between economic and ecological priorities need to be understood, quantified and managed. We aimed to estimate the trade-off in the Tanjung Jabung Barat district of Jambi province Indonesia, where traditional agroforestry systems on both peat and mineral soils and logged-over forests give way to monocultural plantations of pulpwood and oil palm (Elaeis guineensis). Simulations of a 30-year time period of four scenarios using the FALLOW (Forests, Agroforests, Low-value-Landscape, Or, Wastelands) model show that a business-as-usual scenario of economic growth unhindered by the application of conservation scenarios will lead to high carbon dioxide CO 2 emissions. The forest and agroforest protection scenario, with moderate assumptions for peat-based emissions, had opportunity costs of 3-100 USD/t CO 2 e. This occurred especially when the establishment of oil palm plantations, which are currently the most profitable land use option in the area, is directed solely to under utilized mineral soils. The high trade-off values are difficult to reconcile when relying only on C trading mechanism to offset economic opportunity costs of not converting forests and/or agroforests to plantations. We conclude that law-based protection of existing forests, investment in intermediate intensity agroforestry options that utilize locally adapted trees and do not require drainage of peatlands, and re-introduction of tapping Jelutung (Dyera sp) latex as non-timber peat forest product, are needed in the Tanjabar district to provide options that are sustainable from both ecological and economic perspectives.

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Low carbon emission development strategies for Jambi, Indonesia: simulation and trade-off analysis using the FALLOW model

Mulia

Widayati

Suyanto

et al. 2013

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“…How the REDD mechanism works and consequently how a national REDD strategy is to be developed are complex issues because they involve different aspects, agents and approaches. The way in which it is going to work has not yet been fully defined and is the object of research in relation to its political aspects (GHAZOUL et al, 2010;OKEREKE;DOOLEY, 2010;PALMER, 2011;TONI, 2011), social aspects (SINGH, 2008;BLOM;SUNDERLAND;MURDIYARSO, 2010;GHAZOUL et al, 2010), environmental aspects (SINGH, 2008;GRAINGER et al, 2009;GHAZOUL et al, 2010) and economic-financial aspects (STRASSBURG et al, 2009;TACCONI, 2009;BÖRNER et al, 2010). Furthermore, the mechanism needs to be approved via an international agreement which involves reconciling the different interests of future signatory countries.…”

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A construção da estratégia brasileira de REDD: a simplificação do debate na priorização da Amazônia

Souza

2013

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Este artigo discute a simplificação do debate relacionado à tomada de decisão de se priorizar a Amazônia na construção da estratégia brasileira de REDD - mecanismo que visa a apoiar financeiramente iniciativas de mitigação das mudanças climáticas. Com base em análises de diversos enfoques para uma estratégia de REDD, critica-se o enfoque da atual construção da estratégia brasileira de REDD que privilegia a Amazônia. Ressalta-se que essa construção não aproveita o potencial imediato dos biomas brasileiros para construir uma estratégia brasileira de REDD que concilie redução de emissões e o desenvolvimento sustentável do Brasil. Recomenda-se que os tomadores de decisão façam uma revisão sobre o potencial imediato de cada bioma brasileiro para colaborar com os objetivos da estratégia brasileira de REDD, antes de se definir o desenho dessa estratégia.

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“…The discussions cover a wide range of issues, from the risk of non permanence of forest carbon sinks (if forests are destroyed after the payments have been made) to the recurrent problem of leakage, at the international scale 4 . The most difficult issues are however to overcome free-riding by donor countries, and to find an agreement on the mode of calculation of the baseline (Tacconi, 2009). These two issues are closely interlinked.…”

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The REDD Scheme to Curb Deforestation: A Well-designed System of Incentives?

Figuières

Leplay²,

Midler

et al. 2012

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The need to find a global agreement to limit deforestation has led to the REDD scheme which proposes that developed countries pay developing countries for CO2 emissions saved through avoided deforestation and degradation. This article describes the issues at stake and demonstrates with a stylized transfer scheme which describes the negotiation between developing countries over the allocation of the forest fund, that there is a threshold in the level of contribution from the North. Below this level, the mechanism failed to curb the deforestation. Beyond this level, the REDD scheme induces perverse effects: the larger the North's contribution, the larger the deforestation rate. Consequently, the mechanism is most effecitve only at a threshold level. Besides, it implies deforestation efforts that generally fall short of the Pareto optimal level. Preliminary version

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Compensated successful efforts for avoided deforestation vs compensated reductions

Cited by 18 publications

References 5 publications

Low carbon emission development strategies for Jambi, Indonesia: simulation and trade-off analysis using the FALLOW model

Low carbon emission development strategies for Jambi, Indonesia: simulation and trade-off analysis using the FALLOW model

A construção da estratégia brasileira de REDD: a simplificação do debate na priorização da Amazônia

The REDD Scheme to Curb Deforestation: A Well-designed System of Incentives?

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