Climate change mitigation: Should "Avoided Deforestation" be rewarded?
It is hotly debated today whether the reduction of tropical deforestation should be supported by a mechanism within the Convention for Climate Change. This mechanism, known as "avoided deforestation," would benefit developing countries that voluntarily reduce their deforestation rates, thereby generating at least two positive impacts: (a) an increase in the financial resources available to curb tropical deforestation, with expected positive side effects on biodiversity conservation, the environmental services provided by these forests, and sustainable development as a whole; and (b) a greater effectiveness of the global fight against climate change, because tropical deforestation contributes extensively to world carbon emissions. Several proposals were designed for such a mechanism, yet their implementation poses significant methodological problems: first, sophisticated tools available to measure the reduction of emissions might be ineffective when combined with baselines on a national level secondly, baselines calculated ex ante lack accuracy because of insufficient knowledge concerning the direct and underlying causes of deforestation; thirdly, baselines calculated ex post lack legitimacy because they only refer to past trends; and fourthly, it is challenging to relate a reduction in deforestation rates to public policy options in the host country.Drawing lessons from our analysis of the methodological problems for the implementation of the mechanism, we recommend not promoting any mechanism based on financial rewards for an assumed voluntary reduction of national tropical deforestation rates. Two reasons justify our perspective: not only would the mechanism probably generate fake reductions ("hot air"), but undesirable side effects-detailed in this paper-would also appear. Instead, we encourage industrialized countries to better use already existing multi-and bilateral instruments, which focus on the correction of governance deficiencies in countries home to tropical forests. It is also necessary to focus on the suppression of "perverse incentives" from public policies in tropical countries.
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dig-cirad-fr-5493232024-01-28T17:04:45Z http://agritrop.cirad.fr/549323/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/549323/ Climate change mitigation: Should "Avoided Deforestation" be rewarded? Pirard Romain, Karsenty Alain. 2009. Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 28 (3-5) : 434-455.https://doi.org/10.1080/10549810902794485 <https://doi.org/10.1080/10549810902794485> Climate change mitigation: Should "Avoided Deforestation" be rewarded? Pirard, Romain Karsenty, Alain eng 2009 Journal of Sustainable Forestry P40 - Météorologie et climatologie P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières K01 - Foresterie - Considérations générales changement climatique forêt tropicale déboisement incitation politique financière gaz à effet de serre politique forestière pays en développement atténuation des effets du changement climatique http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1666 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_24904 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_15590 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3818 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_29784 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_34841 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3060 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2222 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1374571087594 Afrique Venezuela (République bolivarienne du) Brésil http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_165 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8186 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1070 It is hotly debated today whether the reduction of tropical deforestation should be supported by a mechanism within the Convention for Climate Change. This mechanism, known as "avoided deforestation," would benefit developing countries that voluntarily reduce their deforestation rates, thereby generating at least two positive impacts: (a) an increase in the financial resources available to curb tropical deforestation, with expected positive side effects on biodiversity conservation, the environmental services provided by these forests, and sustainable development as a whole; and (b) a greater effectiveness of the global fight against climate change, because tropical deforestation contributes extensively to world carbon emissions. Several proposals were designed for such a mechanism, yet their implementation poses significant methodological problems: first, sophisticated tools available to measure the reduction of emissions might be ineffective when combined with baselines on a national level secondly, baselines calculated ex ante lack accuracy because of insufficient knowledge concerning the direct and underlying causes of deforestation; thirdly, baselines calculated ex post lack legitimacy because they only refer to past trends; and fourthly, it is challenging to relate a reduction in deforestation rates to public policy options in the host country.Drawing lessons from our analysis of the methodological problems for the implementation of the mechanism, we recommend not promoting any mechanism based on financial rewards for an assumed voluntary reduction of national tropical deforestation rates. Two reasons justify our perspective: not only would the mechanism probably generate fake reductions ("hot air"), but undesirable side effects-detailed in this paper-would also appear. Instead, we encourage industrialized countries to better use already existing multi-and bilateral instruments, which focus on the correction of governance deficiencies in countries home to tropical forests. It is also necessary to focus on the suppression of "perverse incentives" from public policies in tropical countries. article info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal Article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://agritrop.cirad.fr/549323/1/document_549323.pdf application/pdf Cirad license info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess https://agritrop.cirad.fr/mention_legale.html https://doi.org/10.1080/10549810902794485 10.1080/10549810902794485 http://catalogue-bibliotheques.cirad.fr/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=204049 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1080/10549810902794485 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/purl/https://doi.org/10.1080/10549810902794485 |
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P40 - Météorologie et climatologie P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières K01 - Foresterie - Considérations générales changement climatique forêt tropicale déboisement incitation politique financière gaz à effet de serre politique forestière pays en développement atténuation des effets du changement climatique http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1666 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_24904 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_15590 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3818 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_29784 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_34841 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3060 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2222 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1374571087594 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_165 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8186 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1070 P40 - Météorologie et climatologie P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières K01 - Foresterie - Considérations générales changement climatique forêt tropicale déboisement incitation politique financière gaz à effet de serre politique forestière pays en développement atténuation des effets du changement climatique http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1666 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_24904 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_15590 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3818 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_29784 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_34841 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3060 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2222 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1374571087594 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_165 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8186 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1070 Pirard, Romain Karsenty, Alain Climate change mitigation: Should "Avoided Deforestation" be rewarded? |
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It is hotly debated today whether the reduction of tropical deforestation should be supported by a mechanism within the Convention for Climate Change. This mechanism, known as "avoided deforestation," would benefit developing countries that voluntarily reduce their deforestation rates, thereby generating at least two positive impacts: (a) an increase in the financial resources available to curb tropical deforestation, with expected positive side effects on biodiversity conservation, the environmental services provided by these forests, and sustainable development as a whole; and (b) a greater effectiveness of the global fight against climate change, because tropical deforestation contributes extensively to world carbon emissions. Several proposals were designed for such a mechanism, yet their implementation poses significant methodological problems: first, sophisticated tools available to measure the reduction of emissions might be ineffective when combined with baselines on a national level secondly, baselines calculated ex ante lack accuracy because of insufficient knowledge concerning the direct and underlying causes of deforestation; thirdly, baselines calculated ex post lack legitimacy because they only refer to past trends; and fourthly, it is challenging to relate a reduction in deforestation rates to public policy options in the host country.Drawing lessons from our analysis of the methodological problems for the implementation of the mechanism, we recommend not promoting any mechanism based on financial rewards for an assumed voluntary reduction of national tropical deforestation rates. Two reasons justify our perspective: not only would the mechanism probably generate fake reductions ("hot air"), but undesirable side effects-detailed in this paper-would also appear. Instead, we encourage industrialized countries to better use already existing multi-and bilateral instruments, which focus on the correction of governance deficiencies in countries home to tropical forests. It is also necessary to focus on the suppression of "perverse incentives" from public policies in tropical countries. |
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Climate change mitigation: Should "Avoided Deforestation" be rewarded? |
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