Accounting for harvested wood products in a forest offset program: Lessons from California
| Autor: | Eric Marland, Tatyana B. Ruseva, Gregg Marland, Tamara Kowalczyk, Jason Hoyle, Benjamin Jones, Laurel Bates |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Offset (computer science)
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Ecology Carbon accounting Natural resource economics Geography Planning and Development Economics Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Carbon offset Forestry 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Climate change mitigation Greenhouse gas Environmental science Wood product Carbon stock 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Forest Economics. 27:50-59 |
| ISSN: | 1104-6899 |
| Popis: | Carbon offset programs, such as that overseen by the California Air Resources Board (CA ARB), have emerged as a strategy for climate change mitigation. Offset projects sequestering carbon earn credits that can be traded on the Cap-and-Trade market to compensate for carbon emissions. The carbon stock embodied in harvested wood products can make up a substantial portion of the sequestered carbon in forest offset projects. In this paper we investigate the sensitivity of the calculations for the number of credits allocated to a forest offset project in the California system. We also examine how alternative models for the decay of harvested wood products might better reflect the dynamics of both the lifetime and cascade chain progression of the products and how this might change the amount of credits earned. The results suggest improved data collection and refinement in methodology would help to improve accuracy and reduce uncertainty in a large and important carbon stock. We conclude with offering suggestions on how an understanding of the dependence of harvested wood product stocks on life cycle parameters might affect the economics of offset programs and assist targeted mitigation efforts. |
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