NDLI: The ‘hidden’ social costs of forestry offsets

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Hunt, Colin Baum, Seth
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	The article quantifies the size of ‘hidden’ social costs that are incurred by forestry offsets in the voluntary market that promise to offset present emissions sometime in the future. It does this by estimating the difference between the social costs of carbon (C) emitted and of costs offset by removal of C from the atmosphere by reforestation/afforestation. All current attempts to make forestry offsets more reliable focus on quality control rather than the mismatch of the timing of emissions and their offset. Recommendations that follow from the analysis are twofold. First, that markets for carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) removals by voluntary offsets should be confined to the annual incremental removals actually achieved. Second, the promoters of voluntary offsets projects should declare the annual stream of carbon credits and debits expected so that buyers can place a present value on such projects.
Starting Page	107
Ending Page	120
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13812386
Journal	Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
Volume Number	14
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15731596
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2008-09-03
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Afforestation/reforestation Carbon sequestration Carbon markets Voluntary offsets Social costs of carbon Meteorology/Climatology Environmental Management Climate Change
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology Global and Planetary Change

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