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Forests and Climate: Economics and Policy Issues

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By Anne-Marie Codur, Jonathan M. Harris and Maliheh Birjandi Feriz Deforestation and degradation of forests and wetlands is a major contributor to climate change. At the same time, forests and other ecosystems have immense capacity to store carbon and to contribute to balancing global cycles of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases. Policies to […]

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Are Personal Carbon Allowances the Missing Policy for Addressing Climate Change?

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By Tim Thornton In recent decades, addressing climate change has gained increased attention as climate disasters have become more widespread. However, the international community is not currently on a sufficiently ambitious carbon emissions reduction trajectory to avoid non-catastrophic global warming. As illustrated in Figure 1, there is a large gap between global emissions with current […]

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Forests and Climate: Economics and Policy Issues

Are Personal Carbon Allowances the Missing Policy for Addressing Climate Change?