Estimating the costs of reducing forest emissions: a review of methods
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31/10/2008
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Center for International Forestry Research
This paper reviews main approaches to estimate the costs of REDD, with a focus on the opportunity costs. These can be classified into local-empirical, global-empirical and global simulation models. In local-empirical models, per-area opportunity cost estimates are derived from detailed studies (surveys) and carbon density estimates