Unveiling a greener world : assessing foresting commitments and projects about their economic and mitigation potentials

Abstract

The thesis evaluates growing forests as a measure of climate change mitigation. Forests are one of the major carbon pools on Earth and growing them is the only well-developed “technology” available that retrieves carbon dioxide from atmosphere in a major scale. In this context, three different essays were developed to investigate the economic and mitigation impacts from growing forests in three different levels: local, national and global. The first essay consists of a business scenario analysis from a mixed forestry project developed in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest biome. The second essay is a policy analysis regarding the implementation of Brazil’s Nationally Determined Contribution of restoring and reforesting 12 million hectares of new forests by 2030. Finally, by means of a computable general equilibrium model, the third essay addresses the economic impacts from the fulfillment of global effort to restore 350 million hectares of forests by 2030, known as Bonn Challenge.