Emissions scenarios, costs, and implementation considerations of REDD-plus programs

Greenhouse gas emissions from the forestry sector are estimated to be 8.4 GtCO2-eq./year or about 17% of the global emissions. We estimate that the cost for reducing deforestation is low in Africa and several times higher in Latin America and Southeast Asia. These cost estimates are sensitive to the...

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Published in:Environment and development economics 2011-08, Vol.16 (4), p.361-380
Main Authors: SATHAYE, JAYANT, ANDRASKO, KENNETH, CHAN, PETER
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Africa
Air pollution
Benefits
Biomass
Carbon
Carbon cycle
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide emissions
Carbon sequestration
Climate change
Cost
Cost estimates
Costs
Deforestation
Degraded forests
Economic development
Economics
Emissions
Emissions trading
Environmental policy
Equilibrium
Estimates
Forest cover
Forest degradation
Forest management
Forestry
Ghana
Government and politics
Greenhouse gases
Indonesia
Land area
Land use
Logging
Net losses
Pollutant emissions
REDD program
Reduction
Sustainable forest management
Timber
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Summary:Greenhouse gas emissions from the forestry sector are estimated to be 8.4 GtCO2-eq./year or about 17% of the global emissions. We estimate that the cost for reducing deforestation is low in Africa and several times higher in Latin America and Southeast Asia. These cost estimates are sensitive to the uncertainties of how much unsustainable high-revenue logging occurs, little understood transaction and program implementation costs, and barriers to implementation including governance issues. Due to lack of capacity in the affected countries, achieving reduction or avoidance of carbon emissions will require extensive REDD-plus programs. Preliminary REDD-plus Readiness cost estimates and program descriptions for Indonesia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Guyana and Mexico show that roughly one-third of potential REDD-plus mitigation benefits might come from avoided deforestation and the rest from avoided forest degradation and other REDD-plus activities.
ISSN:1355-770X
1469-4395
DOI:10.1017/S1355770X11000052