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Reducing Deforestation and Trading Emissions: Economic Implications for the post-Kyoto Carbon Market
This paper quantitatively assesses the economic implications of crediting carbon abatement from reduced deforestation for the emissions market in 2020 by linking a numerical equilibrium model of the global carbon market with a dynamic partial equilibrium model of the forestry sector. We find that integrating avoided deforestation in international emissions trading considerably decreases the costs of post-Kyoto climate policy – even when accounting for conventional abatement options of developing countries under the CDM. At the same time, tropical rainforest regions receive substantial net revenues from exporting carbon-offset credits to the industrialized world. Moreover, reduced deforestation can increase environmental effectiveness by enabling industrialized countries to tighten their carbon constraints without increasing mitigation costs. Regarding uncertainties of this future carbon abatement option, we find both forestry transaction costs and deforestation baselines to play an important role for the post-Kyoto carbon market.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 08-016
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Wirtschaft
Renewable Resources and Conservation: Forestry
Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling: General
Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
Environmental Economics: Government Policy
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Climate Change
Kyoto Protocol
Emissions Trading
Deforestation
Klimaschutz
Abholzung
Aufforstung
Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse
Emissionshandel
Welt
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Sathaye, Jayant A.
Anger, Niels
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Veröffentlichung
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Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
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Mannheim
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2008
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Sathaye, Jayant A.
- Anger, Niels
- Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
Time of origin
- 2008