PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kevin R. Kaushal
AU  - Knut Einar Rosendahl
TI  - Optimal Discounting of Forest Offsets in the Carbon Market
AID  - 10.3368/le.97.2.436
DP  - 2021 May 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 436--454
VI  - 97
IP  - 2
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/97/2/436.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/97/2/436.full
SO  - Land Econ2021 May 01; 97
AB  - Unilateral actions to reduce CO2 emissions can be costly and may lead to carbon leakage through relocation of emission-intensive and trade-exposed industries (EITE). This article examines the welfare effects of introducing an emission offset mechanism for the EITE sector, where EITE producers may have to acquire more than one offset credit to balance one emission allowance. The analytical results suggest that it is globally welfare improving for a region to introduce such an offset mechanism, with an optimal conversion rate below 1. Moreover, numerical simulations in the context of the European Union emission trading system and the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) credits support the analytical findings.