Finnish forest owners' willingness to participate in result-based carbon offset schemes.

IF 4 2区农林科学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Forest Policy and Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI:10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103531

Domna Tzemi , Jussi Leppänen , Hilja Autto , Emmi Haltia

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Abstract

Forests are vital carbon sinks, playing a key role in combating climate change by absorbing nearly one-third of global annual greenhouse gas emissions. In Finland, forests cover 75 % of the country's land area. However, there is currently no policy in place to encourage increased carbon sequestration on privately-owned forestland. This study aims to explore forest owners' preferences for results-based carbon offset schemes and their attributes, contributing to the debate on whether to compensate forest owners based on carbon sequestration. To achieve this, data on forest owners' preferences for alternative carbon offset schemes were collected through an online survey, and a choice experiment was conducted. The results revealed significant diversity among Finnish forest owners in their attitudes towards carbon offset schemes. However, compensatory carbon payments appeared to be the only attribute that would motivate respondents in all classes to participate in carbon schemes. The results of both the conditional logit (CL) model and the latent class model (LC) indicated a high preference among forest owners for the non-participation option, suggesting low willingness to accept new schemes.

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芬兰森林所有者参与基于结果的碳抵消计划的意愿。

森林是重要的碳汇，通过吸收全球每年近三分之一的温室气体排放，在应对气候变化方面发挥着关键作用。在芬兰，森林覆盖了该国土地面积的75%。然而，目前尚无政策鼓励在私有林地上增加碳固存。本研究旨在探讨森林所有者对基于结果的碳补偿计划的偏好及其属性，为是否根据碳固存对森林所有者进行补偿的辩论做出贡献。为了实现这一目标，通过在线调查收集了森林所有者对替代碳抵消计划的偏好数据，并进行了选择实验。结果显示，芬兰森林所有者对碳抵消计划的态度存在显著差异。然而，补偿性碳支付似乎是唯一能激励所有阶层的受访者参与碳计划的因素。条件logit （CL）模型和潜类模型的结果都表明，森林所有者对不参与方案的偏好较高，表明他们接受新方案的意愿较低。

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Forest Policy and Economics 农林科学-林学

CiteScore

9.00

自引率

7.50%

发文量

148

审稿时长

21.9 weeks

期刊介绍： Forest Policy and Economics is a leading scientific journal that publishes peer-reviewed policy and economics research relating to forests, forested landscapes, forest-related industries, and other forest-relevant land uses. It also welcomes contributions from other social sciences and humanities perspectives that make clear theoretical, conceptual and methodological contributions to the existing state-of-the-art literature on forests and related land use systems. These disciplines include, but are not limited to, sociology, anthropology, human geography, history, jurisprudence, planning, development studies, and psychology research on forests. Forest Policy and Economics is global in scope and publishes multiple article types of high scientific standard. Acceptance for publication is subject to a double-blind peer-review process.