Legal Issues in Biosequestration: Carbon Sinks, Carbon Rights and Carbon Trading
This article explores the legal interactions between the varying forms of carbon rights and carbon permits as related to biosequestration projects in Australia.
Carbon sequestration in Africa: The land tenure problem
This article examines the prospect of using tropic forest projects to sequester carbon dioxide in Africa and argues that land tenure exists as a prohibitive obstacle to the implementation of afforestation and reforestation approaches.
Reforestation Tax Incentives Under the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004
This study reviews how the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 benefited owners of large forest holdings over the intended beneficiaries, small woodland owners.
Forest Certification in North America Report
This report surveys the technical challenges to and opportunities from developing forest certification systems. It includes a list of major third-party forest and wood product certification systems.
Legal Aspects in the Implementation of CDM Afforestation and Reforestation Projects: The Chilean Experience
This paper identifies how afforestation and reforestation legislation and policy in Chile can conform to the Clean Development Mechanism requirements.
Can Forestry Gain from Emissions Trading: Rules Governing Sinks Projects Under the UNFCCC and the EU Emissions Trading System
This article analyzes how the the negotiations during the Kyoto Protocol determined whether changes in carbon stocks from forestry and land-use should be accounted for in the Kyoto framework.
Forest Policy Development in Mongolia
This paper reviews the laws, rules, and regulations instituted to carry out Mongolia's reforestation policies during the transition from a single-party political system to a democratic form of society.
Ky. Rev. Stat. §149.340 – Kentucky Forest Stewardship Incentives Fund
Kentucky’s forest stewardship incentives fund is used to provide financial assistance to landowners for development of management plans and for practices including reforestation and afforestation.
Or. Rev. Stat. §§526.695 et seq. – Oregon Forest Resource Trust
Oregon’s forest resource trust provides financial and technical assistance to qualified private and local government owners to plant trees and improve management of forestlands for timber production and environmental purposes.
N.C. Gen. Stat. §§106-1010 et seq. – North Carolina Forest Development Act
This legislation provides funding for reforestation and forest improvement work cost shared under the Forest Development Program to improve reforestation rates and provide for a long-term supply of timber.