Current Results
Avoided deforestation with sustainable benefits is a simple way to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation
and forest degradation. In November 2007, ASB released its interim report Opportunities for Avoided Deforestation with Sustainable Benefits. The research found that at most sites, deforesting activities generated less than $5 per tonne of CO2 released. These results suggest that abatement costs of avoided deforestation could be more cost effective than other climate change mitigation activities. With the right policy incentives, mechanisms for encouraging REDD could bring significant benefits to smallholder farmers, to ecosystems, and to the global climate.
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In May 2007, ASB submitted a brief to the Subsidiary Bodies meeting of the UNFCCC, making the case for including Avoided Deforestation under the Clean Development Mechanism. Read more...