The Potential of Carbon Offsetting Projects in the Forestry Sector for Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries

Estrada, Manuel; Corbera, Esteve

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-0186-5_11

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“…The implementation of carbon sink plantation projects is an important way to reduce poverty and prevent economically underdeveloped areas from returning to poverty [21][22][23][24]. Carbon sink plantation projects can improve the ecological environment, thereby directly reducing the risk of poverty to farmers caused by natural disasters and improving the local ability to resist harsh natural environments or natural disasters [25].…”

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The Effect of Carbon Sink Plantation Projects on Local Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis of County-Level Panel Data from Guangdong Province

Hou

2021

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In recent years, there has been an increased focus on carbon sink plantation projects. Carbon sink plantations can slow global climate change and promote sustainable economic development, which is well suited to the needs of both ecological protection and economic growth. This article aims to accurately assess the causal effect of carbon sink plantation projects on economic development at the county level and explore its effect mechanisms. In this study, 56 counties in Guangdong Province were selected as the research areas, providing balanced panel data from 2006 to 2018. Then the propensity score matching and difference-in-differences (PSM-DID) model was used to estimate both the average and dynamic effects of carbon sink plantation projects on county-level economic development. The ordinary least squares (OLS) multiple regression results of the single-difference method and difference-in-differences (DID) model show that carbon sink plantation projects have a significant role in promoting county-level economic development. In addition, our findings suggest that the economic benefits of carbon sink plantation projects began to gradually appear from the sixth year after the projects were implemented.

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The Effect of Carbon Sink Plantation Projects on Local Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis of County-Level Panel Data from Guangdong Province

Hou

2021

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“…Local communities are key stakeholders in the effort to address land degradation, with local knowledge enabling context-dependent solutions that prioritise the agency of communitymembers in decision-making 6 . Carbon markets are a funding mechanism for environmental restoration 7 with potentially powerful benefits for participating communities 8 . However, successful restoration projects are often localised, limited in scalability and the impacts of grass-roots actions in rural areas are under-quantified.…”

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Community-driven tree planting greens the neighbouring landscape

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Powell

Ambler³

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Nature-based solutions to climate change are growing policy priorities yet remain hard to quantify. Here we use remote sensing to quantify direct and indirect benefits from community-led agroforestry by The International Small group and Tree planting program (TIST) in Kenya. Since 2005, TIST-Kenya has incentivised smallholder farmers to plant trees for agricultural benefit and to sequester CO2. We use Landsat-7 satellite imagery to examine the effect on the historically deforested landscape around Mount Kenya. We identify positive greening trends in TIST groves during 2000-2019 relative to the wider landscape. These groves cover 27,198 hectares, and a further 27,750 hectares of neighbouring agricultural land is also positively influenced by TIST. This positive ‘spill-over’ impact of TIST activity occurs at up to 360m distance. TIST also benefits local forests, e.g. through reducing fuelwood and fodder extraction. Our results show that community-led initiatives can lead to successful landscape-scale regreening on decadal timescales.

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Zeng,

Yang

2024

International Research on Poverty Reduction

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The Potential of Carbon Offsetting Projects in the Forestry Sector for Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

The Effect of Carbon Sink Plantation Projects on Local Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis of County-Level Panel Data from Guangdong Province

The Effect of Carbon Sink Plantation Projects on Local Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis of County-Level Panel Data from Guangdong Province

Community-driven tree planting greens the neighbouring landscape

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