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Climate change mitigation and public preferences Location: Lab 1 Session Chair: Brent Sohngen, Ohio State University | |
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Forgotten Forests: Strengthening corporate climate commitments with people, nature, and climate impacts today 1: Ohio State University, United States of America; 2: World Resources Institute This paper utilizes state of the art modeled scenarios to examine the effect of voluntary corporate climate commitments on near- and mid-century climate mitigation goals. We find that current voluntary initiatives, even if scaled, are largely insufficient to achieve goals aligned with the Paris Agreement. However, efforts to drastically increase near-term emission reductions to meet 2030 targets and incorporating emissions reductions from forests and other land-based mitigation opportunities (aka “Forests+”), substantially increase the likelihood of staying well below 2C. In all cases, when Forests+ are included in corporate commitment scenarios, aggregated abatement increases and costs decline. Addressing notable concerns, we find that each ton of Forests+ credits leads to no more than 0.5 tons of additional energy emissions (e.g. due to additional sequestration); and that trading ratios could mitigate potential leakage or impermanence issues. Therefore, immediate action on Forests+ activities that benefit people, nature, and climate, should be prioritized. | |