Key challenges and approaches to addressing barriers in forest carbon offset projects

作     者：Chunyu Pan Anil Shrestha John LInnes Guomo Zhou Nuyun Li Jinliang Li Yeyun He Chunguang Sheng John-ONiles Guangyu Wang Chunyu Pan;Anil Shrestha;John L.Innes;Guomo Zhou;Nuyun Li;Jinliang Li;Yeyun He;Chunguang Sheng;John-O.Niles;Guangyu Wang

作者机构：Faculty of ForestryUniversity of British Columbia2424 Main MallVancouverBC V6T 1Z4Canada Zhejiang Prov Key Lab of Carbon Cycling Forest EcosystemZhejiang A&F UniversityLinan 311300People’s Republic of China China Green Carbon FoundationNo.18Hepingli DongjieBeijing 100714People’s Republic of China College of Economics and ManagementNortheast Forestry UniversityHarbin 150040People’s Republic of China University of CaliforniaSan Diego9500 Gilman DriveLa JollaSan DiegoCA 92093USA 

出 版 物：《Journal of Forestry Research》 (林业研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2022年第33卷第4期

页      面：1109-1122页

核心收录：

学科分类：0907[农学-林学] 07[理学] 09[农学] 0903[农学-农业资源与环境] 0713[理学-生态学] 

基　　金：funded by Zhejiang A&F University(POAU GR022067) China Green Carbon Foundation(PAFD GR015155) 

主　　题：Forest carbon Offset schemes Market mechanisms Challenges Opportunities 

摘      要：Forest carbon offset(FCO)projects play an increasingly important role in mitigating climate change through market mechanisms in both compliance and voluntary ***,there are challenges and barriers to developing an FCO project,such as carbon leakage and cost-eff *** have been few attempts to summarize and synthesize all types and aspects of existing challenges and possible solutions for FCO *** paper systematically reviews and discusses the current challenges involved in developing FCO projects,and then draws on the experience and lessons of existing projects to show how those challenges were addressed in world-leading voluntary carbon standards,namely the Verifi ed Carbon Standard,the American Carbon Registry,the Climate Action Reserve,and Plan *** voluntary markets have rich experience in FCO projects and are responsible for a signifi cant share of the *** the 53 publications used in this analysis,three broad thematic categories of challenges *** were related to methodology,socio-economic implications,and *** challenges,particularly additionality,permanence,and leakage,were the focus of 46%of the selected research papers,while socio-economic challenges,including transaction,social,and opportunity costs,were addressed by 35%.The remaining 19%of the research articles focused on implementational challenges related to monitoring,reporting,and verifi *** voluntary standards adequately addressed most of the methodological and implementational barriers by adopting various ***,the standards did not adequately address socio-economic issues,despite these being the second most frequently discussed theme in the papers *** research is clearly needed on the socio-economic challenges involved in the development of FCO *** the development of high-quality forestry carbon off set projects,there are many challenges and no simple,universal recipe for addressi