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Cash for carbon: A randomized trial of payments for ecosystem services to reduce deforestation
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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
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Metadata
- Authors
- Jayachandran, S., de Laat, J., Lambin, E. F., Stanton, C. Y., Audy, R., & Thomas, N. E.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2017-07-21
- Volume
- 357
- Issue
- 6348
- Pages
- 267-273
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W3023894730
- Cited by
- 544
- References
- 39
- FWCI
- 33.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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