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Can Permanence be Insured? Consideration of some Technical and Practical Issues of Insuring Carbon Credits from Afforestation and Reforestation

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dc.creator Wong-Leung, Jenny P.
dc.creator Dutschke, Michael
dc.date 2003
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:03:37Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:03:37Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19207
dc.identifier ppn:365276421
dc.identifier RePEc:zbw:hwwadp:26270
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19207
dc.description Greenhouse gas (GHG) removals by afforestation and reforestation project activities under the Kyoto Protocol?s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) are vulnerable to a variety of risks and uncertainties, resulting in the partial or total reversal of such removals. Hence, GHG removals from these sink activities are considered to be of temporary nature and non-permanent. Specific modalities related to non-permanence will need to be developed in order to include afforestation and reforestation project activities under the CDM and for a decision on modalities to be reached at COP 9 in December 2003. Two main options on how to address non-permanence have been proposed, these being temporary credits and insurance of emission reduction credits. This paper discusses the practicality and potential difficulties of the insurance approach for addressing non-permanence of sequestered carbon stocks and the validity of CERs generated. The insurability of CERs or non-permanence is considered against common insurability criteria. The marketability of the insurance product and several technical questions in relation to developing this new market instrument are asked. In addition, inequities likely to arise if the approach is adopted as a mandatory modality are discussed.
dc.language eng
dc.relation HWWA Discussion Paper 235
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject Q13
dc.subject Q25
dc.subject Q23
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Clean Development Mechanism
dc.subject Forestry
dc.subject Insurance
dc.subject Permanence
dc.subject Klimaschutz
dc.subject Aufforstung
dc.subject Kohlendioxid
dc.subject Umweltzertifikat
dc.subject Versicherung
dc.subject Welt
dc.title Can Permanence be Insured? Consideration of some Technical and Practical Issues of Insuring Carbon Credits from Afforestation and Reforestation
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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