Interim Forest Finance project  |  7/02-14

If global deforestation levels are to be reduced by 50% by 2020, as much as 9,900 MtCO2 of emission reductions from forests and land use activities will need to be generated between 2015 and 2020. The report highlights that currently total potential demand for REDD+ emission reductions in the same period amounts to only 253 MtCO2 - less than 3% of the emission reductions needed. If REDD+ is to play a significant role in incentivising a reduction in deforestation in tropical forest countries, it needs to provide far more than 3% of demand for the emission reductions that are causing deforestation and degradation.

  

Stanford Federal Energy Policy Laboratory  |  06-13

Using an independent version of the U.S. Department of Energy's 2013 National Energy Modeling System (NEMS-Stanford), we analyzed the macroeconomic, environmental, and distributional impacts of the Climate Protection Act. We find that the Climate Protection Act would: Reduce energy-related CO2 emissions by 4,200 million metric tonnes (MMt) CO2 in the first ten years of the program; reduce CO2 emissions from energy by 16.8% below 2005 levels in 2020...

  

International agricultural trade flows are increasingly important as distant drivers in global land-use changes, creating teleconnections between geographically separated locations of consumption and production. Land-use displacement and associated carbon emissions can undermine the effectiveness of land-use and climate policies, such as activities to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). Nevertheless, few accounting methods exist for international emissions leakage from land-use change, due to methodological and policy challenges. In this paper we review methods to quantify international land-use displacement and teleconnections through international trade.