Zero Value of Forest Resource

Abstract

The article examines the current approaches in the domestic forestry economy to determine the price of forest resources. The analysis of the pricing system in the Russian Federation and a number of foreign multi-forest countries with similar climatic and forest conditions is presented.
 The work reflects global trends and challenges that necessitate a revision of the pricing system for wood from forest plantations. Emphasis is laid on the main points of the Paris Agreement and the carbon tax, since these aspects are now becoming more and more relevant in the strategic planning of state forest management and industrial policy on the world stage.
 An approach to assessing forest resources is proposed, taking into account new challenges in the socio-economic and environmental spheres.
 A formula for the zero cost of a forest resource is given, which depends not only on the factors of the classical economic theory of supply and demand, but also on the factors of changes in the demand of future periods, the transformation of its conjuncture or a fundamental change up to extinction, tending to zero, as well as the social and environmental needs of the population for not raw materials and services of the forest ecosystem.