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A Study of Baseline Approach for Implementing Program of Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in South Korea  

Park, Hong-Chul (Dept. of Biological and Environmental Science, Graduate School, Dongguk Univ.)
Oh, Choong-Hyeon (Dept. of Biological and Environmental Science, Dongguk Univ.)
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Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology / v.26, no.4, 2012 , pp. 484-497 More about this Journal
Abstract
In recent, the primary concern of the forest policy paradigm, which has been mostly focusing on reducing emissions by the effort of afforestation and reforestation, is moving to the REDD activities that are operated by deforestation and forest degradation. In response, the phased studies is going well to visualize performance outcomes of REDD activities. This study brings up the optimum baseline approach for operating the national REDD program by simulating six different baseline approaches broadly used throughout the worldwide, and classified forestry condition for each province in Korea. From this study, we could aware that the carbon credit of HFLD has a low acquisition, but LFMD and LFHD has a high acquisition. Therefore, there are not many reasons for performing REDD activities due to the lack of economical benefits in compared to the devleopment of producing district in HFLD. All kinds of forestry condition, satisfactory baseline approach are needed to enhance the participation and the actuality about REDD program. When evaluating the participation and actuality, the rational decision should be considered as the most appropriate Corridor Approach. This study suggests that the modified Corridor Approach is required for overcoming the weak points, so that we developed the New Corridor Approach which could be easily adopted to Korea environment.
Keywords
CREDIT; FOREST CARBON; REDD; CORRIDOR APPROACH; FOREST POLICY;
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