Cash for carbon: A randomized trial of payments for ecosystem services to reduce deforestation-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Cash for carbon: A randomized trial of payments for ecosystem services to reduce deforestation

Published:2017-07-21 Issue:6348 Volume:357 Page:267-273
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Jayachandran Seema¹^ORCID,de Laat Joost²,Lambin Eric F.³⁴,Stanton Charlotte Y.⁵,Audy Robin⁶,Thomas Nancy E.⁷^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Economics, Northwestern University, 2211 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.

2. Porticus, Post Office Box 7867, 1008 AB Amsterdam, Netherlands.

3. School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences and Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, 473 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

4. Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research, Earth and Life Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Place Louis Pasteur 3, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

5. Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

6. Independent researcher, 9 Harrison Street, Somerville, MA 02143, USA.

7. Geospatial Innovation Facility, University of California, Berkeley, 111 Mulford Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

Abstract

Ecosystem protection payments pay off Trees take up a lot of CO 2 , so one approach to reducing the rate of increase in atmospheric CO 2 levels is to reduce the cutting down of trees. Jayachandran et al. evaluated a program in which forest owners in Uganda were paid to not cut down their trees. Encouragingly, payments did reduce deforestation, and owners did not compensate by cutting down trees in neighboring forests. Furthermore, even in a scenario where cutting resumed after payments ceased, the beneficial delay in CO 2 release from cut trees, as quantified by the social cost of carbon, outweighed the monetary cost. Science , this issue p. 267

Funder

National Science Foundation

Global Environment Facility

International Initiative for Impact Evaluation

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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