Goh, Chun Sheng * and Gopalasamy, Reuben Clements * and Putz, Francis E. (2023) Missing the forest for the carbon: Five familiar lessons being learned again in Malaysia. Malayan Nature Journal, 75 (2). pp. 353-362. ISSN 0025-1291
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As nations scramble to reduce and offset their greenhouse gas emissions to achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, and corporations do the same for their own reasons, voluntary carbon markets flourish and demand for nature-based carbon credits outpaces supplies. Global attention is on countries with substantial potential to generate certifiable forest-based carbon credits. Despite nearly 30-years of experience with carbon offset projects, forest-based climate change mitigation projects of questionable quality still proliferate in Malaysia and elsewhere. Here, we assess the feasibility and sustainability of the Nature Conservation Agreement (NCA) – a recent project that includes two million hectares of protected forest in the Malaysian state of Sabah. We use this seriously flawed example to identify five key issues that forest carbon projects should not ignore: transparency, additionality, social equity, sovereignty, and complementarity. We also suggest how all five issues could be mitigated by use of a jurisdictional approach to forest carbon project development.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | carbon; climate change; finance; forest; Malaysia; nature-based solutions; |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics Q Science > QD Chemistry T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
| Divisions: | Others > Non Sunway Academics Sunway University > University Centres > Sunway Centre for Planetary Health Sunway University > University Centres [formerly School of Interdisciplinary Studies until 2023] > Centre for English Language Studies > English for Specific Academic Purposes Unit |
| Depositing User: | Ms Yong Yee Chan |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2024 03:15 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jul 2024 03:15 |
| URI: | http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/id/eprint/2813 |
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