FOREST CARBON AS AN ASSET CLASS

Richard Sandor, Murali Kanakasabai, Rafael Marques and Nathan Clark

Chapter 6 in Sustainable Investing and Environmental Markets:Opportunities in a New Asset Class, 2014, pp 163-194 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The world's forests play an important role in sustainable economic development. With 30% of the global land area under forestry and an estimated 1.6 billion people depending on forests for food, fuel, and medicinal plants, preserving forests is an important economic and environmental goal. Forests play two major roles in mitigating climate change. First, new growing forests help by absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere and second, mature forests help by storing absorbed carbon as biomass for a long period. In fact, forests are the biggest reservoirs for carbon storage more than the atmosphere and the world's oil reserves…

Keywords: Environment; Emissions; Trading; Finance; Derivatives; Water; Energy; Carbon; Catastrophe; Weather; Sustainability; Fisheries; Greenhouse Gases; Sulfur Dioxide; Acid Rain; Clean Energy Markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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