Mitigating Climate Change with Forest Climate Tools

Mathilda Eriksson (mathilda.eriksson@umu.se)
Additional contact information
Mathilda Eriksson: CERE and the Department of Economics, Umeå University, Postal: Department of Economics, Umeå University, S-901 87, Umeå, Sweden, http://www.cere.se/

No 2016:5, CERE Working Papers from CERE - the Center for Environmental and Resource Economics

Abstract: This paper develops the FRICE, a framework that determines optimal levels of forest climate tools in the context of global climate policy. The paper integrates afforestation and avoided deforestation into the well-known global multi-regional integrated assessment model, RICE-2010. The paper finds that climate forest tools can play an essential role in global climate policy and that this role is increasingly important under stringent temperature targets. Under a 2C temperature target, the model reveals that emission reductions from avoided deforestation are quickly exhausted whereas afforestation is capable of substantially reducing emission reductions in both the medium and long run. The model also indicates that the most significant reductions in emissions from avoided deforestation and afforestation can be achieved by focusing policy efforts on tropical forests.

Keywords: Climate change; Integrated assessment; Carbon sequestration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 Q23 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2016-03-24
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-env, nep-pr~ and nep-res
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.cere.se/se/forskning/publikationer/744- ... t-climate-tools.html (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://www.cere.se/se/forskning/publikationer/744-mitigating-climate-change-with-forest-climate-tools.html [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.cere.se/se/forskning/publikationer/744-mitigating-climate-change-with-forest-climate-tools.html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhs:slucer:2016_005

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CERE Working Papers from CERE - the Center for Environmental and Resource Economics
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Mona Bonta Bergman (mona.bonta.bergman@slu.se).