Forest Protection and Reforestation in Costa Rica: Evaluation of a Clean Development Mechanism Prototype.

摘要: / Costa Rica has recently established a program that provides funds for reforestation and forest protection on private lands, partly through the sale of carbon certificates to industrialized countries. Countries purchasing these offsets hope one day receive credit against their own commitments limit emissions greenhouse gases. used proceeds Norway help finance this incentive program, called Private Forestry Project, which pays thousands participants reforest or protect lands. The Project is accompanied by monitoring conducted Rican engineers seeks determine net storage accomplished lands each year. officially registered as an Activity Implemented Jointly, possible model bundled projects funded Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) 1997 Kyoto Protocol UN Framework Convention Climate Change. It also serves interesting example CDM because it was designed developing country host-not investor. Accordingly, reflects particular "sustainable development" objectives host at least planners. Early experience in implementing evaluated light main its precursor-Activities Jointly. concluded project appears meet criteria global cost-effectiveness financing from non-ODA sources. sustainable development implications are specific region would not necessarily match ideals all investing may be seen achieve additional gas abatement when compared some (although all) baselines.