This analysis conducted by the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), the German Development Institute (DIE) and UNIQUE examines the growth potential for timber products nationwide and provides detailed recommendations in four priority chains: pre-sized dry sawnwood, fiberboard and particleboard, pallets, and wooden furniture.
In contributing to global climate change mitigation efforts as agreed in Paris in 2015, China has set a target of reducing the carbon dioxide intensity of gross domestic product by 60-65 percent in 2030 compared with 2005 levels. Using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model of China, this study analyzes the economic and greenhouse gas impacts of meeting those targets through carbon pricing. The study finds that the trajectory of carbon prices to achieve the target depends on several factors, including how the carbon price changes over time and how carbon revenue is recycled to the economy. The study finds that carbon pricing that starts at a lower rate and gradually rises until it achieves the intensity target would be more efficient than a carbon price that remains constant over time. Using carbon revenue to cut existing distortionary taxes reduces the impact on the growth of gross domestic product relative to lump-sum redistribution. Recycling carbon revenue through subsidies to renewables and other low-carbon energy sources also can meet the targets, but the impact on the growth of gross domestic product is larger than with the other policies considered.
This document elaborated by Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) and the German Development Institute (DIE) summarizes the findings of the biophysical analysis conducted by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and explores its implications for the inclusion of ecosystem services in national policy.
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Through in-depth case studies in Ucayali and San Martin, Peru, this document elaborated jointly by the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), the German Development Institute (DIE) and the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) develops a typology for family producers based on quantitative and qualitative research. This typology includes land use, behavioral incentives and recommendations for the National Forest and Wildlife Plan that promote the full participation of family producers in the forest economy.
The topic of biodiversity loss has been the subject of a vast and growing scientific and economic literature. Species are estimated to be going extinct at rates 100 to 1000 times faster than in geological times. Globally, terrestrial biodiversity is projected to decrease by a further 10% by 2050. As with biodiversity, the planet has also experienced major losses in the services derived from ecosystems. During the last century, for example, the planet has lost 50% of its wetlands, 40% of its forests and 35% of its mangroves. Around 60% of global ecosystem services have been degraded in just 50 years. While there is a large and growing literature on the values associated with the services that ecosystems provide, much less has been done in analysing the causality in the other direction – i.e. in assessing the linkages from changes in ecosystem services to the functioning of the economy. This report contributes to an effort to identify environmental pressures under different structural and environmental policy assumptions and the associated damages that will result under different economic scenarios to 2050.