Climate Change Mitigation Through Reduced-Impact Logging and the Hierarchy of Production Forest Management
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Hierarchy of Production Forest Management
3. Reduced-Impact Logging
4. RIL Carbon Finance
Category | Type of additionality | Test |
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Environmental | GHG additionality | Activity results in GHG emission reductions or removals compared to the baseline scenario |
Unit additionality | Activity reduces GHG emissions below levels of technologies normally used to produce the same product | |
Project additionality | Activity happens because of carbon finance | |
Financial and investment | Investment additionality | Activity needs to be economically viable, or an attractive investment proposition, only when taking carbon finance into account |
Sales or capital additionality | Activity would not have been undertaken without revenues from the sale of carbon | |
Legal, regulatory and institutional applying to regulators and states | Reporting additionality | Accounting on national level avoids double crediting of emission reductions or removals |
Legal, regulatory and institutional applying to non-state actors | Compliance additionality | Activities need to be additional to statutory requirements |
Incentive additionality | Activities need to go beyond existing incentives (e.g., subsidies) | |
Technological additionality | Activities need to apply a particular technologies | |
Barrier additionality | Activity overcomes particular implementation barriers | |
Common-practice additionality (Prevailing-Practice) | Activity employs technologies or practices that are not in common use. | |
Institutional additionality | Activity is undertaken outside of statutory emission reduction targets | |
Date additionality | Activities starts after a particular date | |
Jurisdiction additionality | Activities are implemented in a particular area or by a particular group |
Monitoring type | Time frame |
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Verification | Immediately following harvest |
Post-Harvest Monitoring | Years 1, 2, 3, 5 and every 5-years thereafter |
5. Lessons Learned from Forest Certification
6. SFM in the Tropics: The Potential of Sabah Malaysia
7. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
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Galante, M.V.; Dutschke, M.; Patenaude, G.; Vickers, B. Climate Change Mitigation Through Reduced-Impact Logging and the Hierarchy of Production Forest Management. Forests 2012, 3, 59-74. https://doi.org/10.3390/f3010059
Galante MV, Dutschke M, Patenaude G, Vickers B. Climate Change Mitigation Through Reduced-Impact Logging and the Hierarchy of Production Forest Management. Forests. 2012; 3(1):59-74. https://doi.org/10.3390/f3010059
Chicago/Turabian StyleGalante, Michael Victor, Michael Dutschke, Genevieve Patenaude, and Ben Vickers. 2012. "Climate Change Mitigation Through Reduced-Impact Logging and the Hierarchy of Production Forest Management" Forests 3, no. 1: 59-74. https://doi.org/10.3390/f3010059
APA StyleGalante, M. V., Dutschke, M., Patenaude, G., & Vickers, B. (2012). Climate Change Mitigation Through Reduced-Impact Logging and the Hierarchy of Production Forest Management. Forests, 3(1), 59-74. https://doi.org/10.3390/f3010059