REDD in the red: palm oil could undermine carbon payment schemes
By R. Butler, Lian Pin Koh, J. Ghazoul. 2009
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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change
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In Ecology
- D. Byerlee
- R. Butler
- I. van Duren
- E.M. Osei Jnr
- J. Gowdy
- L. Addae-Wireko
- K. Wilson
- Hugh P. Possingham
In Global and Planetary Change
Citations in the corpus
- Trio under threat: can we secure the future of rhinos, elephants and tigers in Malaysia? (2010, background): “A recent study by Butler et al. (2009) calculated that the conversion of 1 ha of forest for palm oil production (yielding net present values of $3,835–$9,630 over a 30-year period) will be more profitable than preserving it for carbon credits ($614–$994).”
- Is Oil Palm the Next Emerging Threat to the Amazon? (2009, background): “In particular, by driving up land demand and prices, expansion would reduce the viability of ecosystem-services payments, such as carbon offsets, that could provide incentives for landowners to leave forest standing [27-30].”
- Payments for ecosystem services and the fatal attraction of win‐win solutions (2013, background): “The potential economic benefits of forests allocated to the voluntary carbon market are reported to be much lower than the estimated benefits from oil palm, shedding doubts about the competitiveness of the former (Butler et al. 2009).”
- Does intensification slow crop land expansion or encourage deforestation (2014, background): “However, it is not clear at current prices of carbon whether REDD will give sufficient incentives in times of commodity booms (Butler et al., 2009) and there is little evidence to date of successful implementation of payments for environmental services leading to a reduction in deforestation.”
- The impacts and opportunities of oil palm in Southeast Asia: What do we know and what do we need to know? (2009, background): “For example, the Reduced Emissions for Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) scheme may enable Indonesia to receive funding and support for policies and measures that encourage companies to plant oil palm on degraded lands rather than on forested lands.”
- Developing indicators of economic value and biodiversity loss for rubber plantations in Xishuangbanna, southwest China: A case study from Menglun township (2014, background): “While here is a great deal of interest in compensation schemes based on arbon sequestration and carbon trading, early evaluations indicate hat the carbon market cannot compete with the profitability of il palm (Butler et al., 2009).”
- Support vector machine to map oil palm in a heterogeneous environment (2014, background): “The total area under oil palm production is over 13.5 million hectares globally, the majority being large-scale plantation systems operating as a nucleus of many smallholder producers (Butler, Koh, and Ghazoul 2009; Härdter, Chow, and Hock 1997; Koh and Wilcove 2008).”
- Carbon payments as a safeguard for threatened tropical mammals (2009, methodology): “Like Butler et al. (2009), we urge that REDD methods and policy is finalized in time to include REDD in future climate agreements, as this will increase its economic competitiveness and potential to contribute to climate mitigation and forest conservation.”