Larjavaara , M , Kanninen , M , Ruesta , H G , Koskinen , J , Kukkonen , M , Käyhkö , N , Larson , A M & Wunder , S 2018 , ' Global variation in the cost of increasing ecosystem carbon ' , Nature Climate Change , vol. 8 , no. 1 , pp. 38-42 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-017-0015-7
Title: | Global variation in the cost of increasing ecosystem carbon |
Author: | Larjavaara, Markku; Kanninen, Markku; Ruesta, Harold Gordillo; Koskinen, Joni; Kukkonen, Markus; Käyhkö, Niina; Larson, Anne M.; Wunder, Sven |
Contributor organization: | Department of Forest Sciences Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) Viikki Tropical Resources Institute (VITRI) Forest Ecology and Management |
Date: | 2018-01 |
Language: | eng |
Number of pages: | 5 |
Belongs to series: | Nature Climate Change |
ISSN: | 1758-678X |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-017-0015-7 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/321587 |
Abstract: | Slowing the reduction, or increasing the accumulation, of organic carbon stored in biomass and soils has been suggested as a potentially rapid and cost-effective method to reduce the rate of atmospheric carbon increase(1). The costs of mitigating climate change by increasing ecosystem carbon relative to the baseline or business-as-usual scenario has been quantified in numerous studies, but results have been contradictory, as both methodological issues and substance differences cause variability(2). Here we show, based on 77 standardized face-to-face interviews of local experts with the best possible knowledge of local land-use economics and sociopolitical context in ten landscapes around the globe, that the estimated cost of increasing ecosystem carbon varied vastly and was perceived to be 16-27 times cheaper in two Indonesian landscapes dominated by peatlands compared with the average of the eight other landscapes. Hence, if reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) and other land-use mitigation efforts are to be distributed evenly across forested countries, for example, for the sake of international equity, their overall effectiveness would be dramatically lower than for a cost-minimizing distribution. |
Subject: |
1172 Environmental sciences
4112 Forestry REDD PLUS DEFORESTATION CONSERVATION LAND EMISSIONS INDONESIA PAYMENTS FORESTS |
Peer reviewed: | Yes |
Rights: | unspecified |
Usage restriction: | openAccess |
Self-archived version: | acceptedVersion |
Funder: | Center for International Forestry Research Center for International Forestry Research |
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