Reducing emissions from deforestation—The “combined incentives” mechanism and empirical simulations

Published Date
May 2009, Vol.19(2):265–278, doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.11.004
Traditional Peoples and Climate Change

Author 

Bernardo Strassburg ^a,c,,

R. Kerry Turner ^a

Brendan Fisher ^a

Roberto Schaeffer ^b

Andrew Lovett ^a

aCentre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom

bEnergy Planning Program, COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro RJ 21941-972, Brazil

cGlobal Applied Environmental Analysis Institute, GAEA Institute Rio de Janeiro, 22450-130, Brazil

Received 1 February 2008. Revised 20 November 2008. Accepted 29 November 2008. Available online 31 January 2009.

Abstract

Despite accounting for 17–25% of anthropogenic emissions, deforestation was not included in the Kyoto Protocol. The UN Convention on Climate Change is considering its inclusion in future agreements and asked its scientific board to study methodological and scientific issues related to positive incentives to reduce emissions from deforestation. Here we present an empirically derived mechanism that offers a mix of incentives to developing countries to reduce emissions from deforestation, conserve and possibly enhance their ecosystem's carbon stocks. We also use recent data to model its effects on the 20 most forested developing countries. Results show that at low CO₂ prices (∼US$ 8/t CO₂) a successful mechanism could reduce more than 90% of global deforestation at an annual cost of US$ 30 billion.

Keywords

Reducing emissions from deforestation

RED

REDD

Climate change

Deforestation

Incentive mechanism

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