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REDD, PINC and Other Shades of Green : Institutional Requirements for an International Forest Carbon Sequestration Treaty in a Post-Kyoto World

Baldwin, Elizabeth Anne; Richards, Kenneth R. - 2015

Because forests play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, the international community is actively pursuing policies and programs to conserve and increase the amount of carbon stored in forests. As the international community moves closer to an agreement on terrestrial carbon...

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Can the Global Forest Sector Survive 11°C Warming?

Favero, Alice - 2017

It is well known that the forestry sector is sensitive to climate change but most studies have examined impacts only …

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Leveraging global climate finance for sustainable forests : opportunities and conditions for successful foreign aid to the forestry sector

Pascual, Unai; Garmendia, Eneko; Phelps, Jacob; Ojea, Elena - 2013

. -- sustainable forest management ; foreign aid ; official development assistance ; climate change finance ; REDD+ ; forestry sector …

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Can the global forest sector survive 11°C warming?

Favero, Alice; Mendelsohn, Robert O.; Sohngen, Brent - 2017

It is well known that the forestry sector is sensitive to climate change but most studies have examined impacts only …

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Pricing Forest Carbon : Implications of Asymmetry in Climate Policy

Eriksson, Mathilda - 2016

In this paper, we use an integrated assessment model to examine the implications of not recognizing, and partially recognizing forest carbon in climate policy. Specifically, we investigate the impact of an asymmetric carbon policy that recognizes emissions from fossil fuels while ignoring...

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The Future of Forests : Emissions from Tropical Deforestation with and Without a Carbon Price, 2016-2050

Busch, Jonah - 2015

We project the future of tropical deforestation from 2016-2050 with and without carbon pricing policies, based on 18 million observations of historical forest loss spanning 101 tropical countries. Our spatial projections of future deforestation incorporate topography, accessibility, protected...

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Economics of multifunctional forestry in the Sámi people homeland region

Parkatti, Vesa-Pekka; Tahvonen, Olli - 2020

We study forestry in the Sámi people homeland region to understand an ongoing conflict between conventional forest … husbandry, and a flexible optimization between rotation forestry (cf. clearcuts) and forestry that maintains continuous forest … cover. We show that the profitability of conventional forestry is based on utilizing existing forest stands, an outcome that …

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Deforestation and Emerging Greenhouse Gas Compliance Regimes : Toward a Global Environmental Law of Forests, Carbon, and Climate Governance

Boyd, William - 2012

This chapter reviews the current status of and prospects for efforts to include emissions from deforestation (and international forest carbon activities in general) in emerging greenhouse gas compliance regimes at the international level; future iterations of the European Union Emissions Trading...

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Sustainable Forestry Investment Under the Clean Development Mechanism : The Malaysian Case

Dutschke, Michael - 2014

In the light of the development of the Malaysian forestry sector in recent years, the article gives an overview over … recommendations: First, which issues international climate negotiators need to tackle in order to make forestry projects work in … practice; and second, how and under which conditions CDM forestry can be supportive to the Malaysian development goals …

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The Value of Forest : An Ecological Economic Examination of Forest People's Perspective

Deb, Debal - 2014

While a comprehensive economic valuation of all use and non-use values of the forest is impossible, indigenous societies seem to have a clear, albeit inchoate idea of the value of the forest on which they depend for their material and cultural existence. Forests were valued in all ancient...

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