Towards the establishment of a voluntary carbon compensation market: the contributions of a choice experiment method

Pierre Dupraz, Abdoul Nasser Seyni Abdou (), Thomas Coisnon and Bertille Thareau ()
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Abdoul Nasser Seyni Abdou: SMART-LERECO - Structures et Marché Agricoles, Ressources et Territoires - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - AGROCAMPUS OUEST
Bertille Thareau: LARESS - ESA - Ecole Superieure Agronomique

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Abstract: In addition to their role in maintaining biodiversity, producing many ecosystem services or contributing to the landscape quality of the areas, hedgerows have the capacity to store carbon in their above-and below-ground biomass, an environmental function that can provide an opportunity for companies wishing to offset voluntarily their CO2 emissions. In this paper, we examine the conditions for the existence and development of voluntary carbon offset markets as a new way to improve hedge maintenance and mitigate climate change. Through a series of surveys conducted among companies and farmers in Western France, we aimto determine the existence of a space for negotiation between these actors by adopting a discrete choiceexperimentmethod. The results show acertain heterogeneity in the expression of willingness to pay and willingness to receive, but a space for negotiation is well identified for a category of actors and for some modalitiesof the scheme. From a methodological point of view, our work shows ina new way thatthe choice experiment method can be used to identify the conditions of existence of a market for environmental goods.

Keywords: Willingness to pay; Willingness to receive; discrete choice experiment; conditional logit; mixed logit; voluntary carbon market; hedges (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-12-12
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Published in 13. Journées de recherches en sciences sociales (JRSS 2019), Société Française d'Economie Rurale (SFER). FRA., Dec 2019, Bordeaux, France

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