Open AccessEconomic assessment of the carbon sequestration potential of plantation forests
Author(s) -
А. В. Иванова
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/875/1/012013
Subject(s) - carbon sequestration , hectare , investment (military) , production (economics) , agroforestry , afforestation , climate change , carbon price , business , payback period , forestry , environmental science , carbon offset , carbon fibers , natural resource economics , carbon credit , greenhouse gas , livelihood , agriculture , economics , geography , mathematics , carbon dioxide , ecology , macroeconomics , archaeology , algorithm , politics , composite number , political science , law , biology
The goals set by Russia for the implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change Mitigation, taking into account the absorptive capacity of forests, have become an additional incentive for the creation of carbon-saving forest plantations, while the formation of a voluntary carbon market has made it possible to receive income from the sale of carbon from such climate forest projects. However, in the absence of experience in the implementation of such projects in Russia and the long-term return on investment in them, associated with the specifics of forestry and the existing risks of obtaining the final result, it has become an unattractive activity. This problem can be solved by creating carbon-depositing forest plantations using fast-growing seedlings of planting material obtained by innovative biotechnological methods. The study determined the costs of creating 1 hectare of carbon-depositing forest plantations, forecasting the possible additional income from 1 hectare per year from forest plantations for the implementation of net primary production. It is concluded that even with conservative net primary production and low carbon prices, the use of planting material obtained by in vitro clonal micropropagation when creating carbon-depositing forest plantations will reduce the payback period of climate forestry projects to 5 years.