Reducing Indonesia's deforestation-based greenhouse gas emissions

Peter Warr, Arief A Yusuf

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    Abstract

    Indonesia has set the target that by the year 2020 its emissions of greenhouse gases will be reduced by 26 per cent relative to business-as-usual conditions. This article analyses the effectiveness of a subsidy to the use of land in forestry as a means of achieving this goal. The analysis uses a general equilibrium model of the Indonesian economy characterised by explicit treatment of land use, disaggregated by industry and by region. The results of the analysis indicate that the subsidy cost of permanently reducing carbon emissions by 26per cent is a little over US$1 per metric tonne of carbon emissions abated. This cost needs to be compared with that of alternative instruments and with the price of carbon that might be agreed under the proposed Reducing Emissions through Deforestation and Land Degradation (REDD) scheme, to be administered through the World Bank and the United Nations.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)297-321
    JournalAustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
    Volume55
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2011

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