Why are there so few afforestation and reforestation Clean Development Mechanism projects?

Land Use Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 880-887

  Thomas, Sebastian ^a   Dargusch, Paul ^a   Harrison, Steve ^a   Herbohn, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Carbon markets; Climate policy; Emissions offsets; Forestry

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; DEVELOPMENT CONSTRAINT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; REFORESTATION; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 77649340984     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.12.002     Document Type: Article

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