Turning Carbon into Cash: Economic Model of Payments for Carbon Sequestration in the Dry Tropical Forest of Coastal Ecuador

http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/143088

Abstract:

This paper examines the impact of carbon payments on reforestation in coastal Ecuador. The model estimates that landowners would need to be paid between 13.59 US dollars to 41.81 US dollars per metric ton of carbon in order to be no worse off from reforesting a hectare of her land.
by Trent Blare 1 and Xavier Haro-Carrion 2

1. tblare@ufl.edu)
2. gxharocarrion@ufl.edu)

Southern Agricultural Economics Association

2013 Annual Meeting, February 2-5, 2013, Orlando, Florida; 21 pages

via Research Papers in Economics REPEC www.REPEC.org
Keywords: Carbon Sequestration, Ecuador, Tropical Forest

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