scholarly journals Forest Carbon Sequestration Subsidy and Carbon Tax as Part of China’s Forestry Policies

Forests ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinhua Liu ◽  
Fengping Wu
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Carbon Tax ◽  
Forest Carbon ◽  
Forestry Policies ◽  
Forest Carbon Sequestration

The impacts of changes in federal timber harvest on forest carbon sequestration in western Oregon

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 1710-1723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eun Ho Im ◽  
Darius M. Adams ◽  
Gregory S. Latta
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Carbon Flux ◽  
Carbon Tax ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Timber Harvest ◽  
Carbon Price ◽  
Forest Carbon ◽  
Market Prices ◽  
Forest Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Regional Forest

This study examines the potential impacts of changes in federal timber harvest, acting through regional log markets, on the sequestration of carbon in forests and forest products in western Oregon. We construct a dynamic model of the region’s log markets in which market prices, log consumption at mills, and timber harvests and timber inventories on private, federal, and state forests are endogenous. Absent any policies regulating forest carbon sequestration, simulations show that regional carbon flux in forests and forest products would gradually decline as federal harvest rises from recent historical levels. If regional forest carbon flux were constrained to meet some minimum target, however, projections indicate that there would be opportunities for substituting carbon sequestration between federal and nonfederal lands through coordination of harvests across ownerships. We find that relatively small reductions in average private harvest could offset substantial losses of carbon flux on federal timberlands caused by increased federal harvest. One mechanism for achieving the changes needed in private harvest to meet a regional carbon flux target would be a carbon tax/subsidy program or a carbon offset market. For example, if federal owners offered timber for sale equal to the maximum sustainable level under the Northwest Forest Plan, our analysis indicates that a carbon price of roughly $US 19 per tonne of carbon would be sufficient to induce private owners to undertake the harvest and management modifications necessary to maintain regional forest carbon flux at its level in the early 2000s.

scholarly journals Estimating Leakage from Forest Carbon Sequestration Programs

2004 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian C. Murray ◽  
Bruce A. McCarl ◽  
Heng-Chi Lee
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Forest Carbon ◽  
Forest Carbon Sequestration

scholarly journals Forests: Carbon sequestration, biomass energy, or both?

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (13) ◽  
pp. eaay6792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Favero ◽  
Adam Daigneault ◽  
Brent Sohngen
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Carbon Balance ◽  
Carbon Stocks ◽  
Forest Carbon ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Intensive Management ◽  
Natural Forests ◽  
Timber Management ◽  
Forest Carbon Sequestration

There is a continuing debate over the role that woody bioenergy plays in climate mitigation. This paper clarifies this controversy and illustrates the impacts of woody biomass demand on forest harvests, prices, timber management investments and intensity, forest area, and the resulting carbon balance under different climate mitigation policies. Increased bioenergy demand increases forest carbon stocks thanks to afforestation activities and more intensive management relative to a no-bioenergy case. Some natural forests, however, are converted to more intensive management, with potential biodiversity losses. Incentivizing both wood-based bioenergy and forest sequestration could increase carbon sequestration and conserve natural forests simultaneously. We conclude that the expanded use of wood for bioenergy will result in net carbon benefits, but an efficient policy also needs to regulate forest carbon sequestration.

scholarly journals Topographically driven differences in energy and water constrain climatic control on forest carbon sequestration

Ecosphere ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyson L. Swetnam ◽  
Paul D. Brooks ◽  
Holly R. Barnard ◽  
Adrian A. Harpold ◽  
Erika L. Gallo
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Forest Carbon ◽  
Climatic Control ◽  
Forest Carbon Sequestration
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