Forest, Wood and Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities in the UNECE Region

Kit Prins, Sebastian Hetsch, Franziska Hirsch, Roman Michalak, Ed Pepke and Florian Steierer
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Kit Prins: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Sebastian Hetsch: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Franziska Hirsch: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Roman Michalak: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Ed Pepke: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Florian Steierer: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

No 2009_4, UNECE Annual Report Economic Essays from UNECE

Abstract: This essay explains the importance of the forests as a factor in addressing the challenges in mitigating climate change. The potential of using the forest sector more fully to capture and store carbon has been limited by the failure of current protocols and other climate change mechanisms to adequately account for the contribution of this sector. Thus, a better accounting, which will give the proper credit to the impacts that this sector is having, is viewed to be an important next step to increasing the resources that countries will devote to this factor in addressing climate change. The degree to which global warming is already affecting the forest is also discussed; increasingly mankind may be required to be more proactive in implementing “planned adaptation” activities such as increasing the diversification of forestry resources.

Keywords: Climate change; global warming; forest; biofuels (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q23 Q50 Q52 Q54 Q57 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-ene and nep-env
Date: 2009-01

Published in United Nations ECE 2009 Annual Report

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