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Carbon emission abatement costs from reduced deforestation: introduction

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Stern Report among studies concluding that avoided deforestation is a good economic investment compared to other abatement possibilities • Results from the ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins provide insight into the tradeoffs between C and NPV for alternative land uses in the tropical forest margins • Launching a new pan-tropical study of opportunity costs of avoided deforestation building on 10 years of past work
    Publication year

    2007

    Authors

    Swallow B M

    Language

    English

    Keywords

    carbon, deforestation, emissions

    Geographic

    Indonesia

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