Abstract

This paper provides an overview of China's climate mitigation policy related to the forestry sector, with a special focus on the development of carbon forests which are established to mitigate climate change. A total of 3.5 million ha of carbon forest were planted in the past decade. In recent years, the number of Voluntary Emission Reduction forest carbon projects has increased rapidly. The main challenges for future development of carbon forests under market mechanisms include increasing costs, uncertainty in the future supply and demand for China-certified emission reduction, and potential disputes between households and project developers.

Keywords

climate change; forestry; carbon forest

Published in

Forests
2017, Volume: 8, number: 8, article number: 295

SLU Authors

• Gong, Peichen

  • Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Sustainable Development Goals

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts


UKÄ Subject classification

Agricultural Science
Food Science


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/f8080295

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/87063