10.6084/m9.figshare.1011587.v1
Jonah Busch
Jonah
Busch
Hedley S Grantham
Hedley
S Grantham
Location of additional emission reductions and habitat value achieved using three policy instruments
IOP Publishing
2013
redd
conservation planning
address biodiversity loss
biodiversity benefits
deforestation
emission
address climate change
strategy
conservation planning research
concept
species
Abstract Biodiversity loss
Environmental Science
2013-09-04 00:00:00
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<p><strong>Figure 5.</strong> Location of additional emission reductions and habitat value achieved using three policy instruments. (A) Protected areas. (B) Carbon payments. (C) Biodiversity payments.</p> <p><strong>Abstract</strong></p> <p>Biodiversity loss and climate change both result from tropical deforestation, yet strategies to address biodiversity loss have focused primarily on protected areas while strategies to address climate change have focused primarily on carbon payments. Conservation planning research has focused largely on where to prioritize protected areas to achieve the greatest representation of species at viable levels. Meanwhile research on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) has focused largely on how to design payments to achieve the greatest additional reduction in greenhouse gases relative to baseline rates. This divergence of strategies and research agendas may be attributed to four factors: rare species are more heterogeneously distributed than carbon; species are more difficult to measure and monitor than carbon; species are more sensitive to ecological processes and human disturbance than carbon; and people's value for species diminishes beyond a threshold while their value for carbon storage does not. Conservation planning can achieve greater biodiversity benefits by adopting the concept of additionality from REDD+. REDD+ can achieve greater climate benefits by incorporating spatial prioritization from conservation planning. Climate and biodiversity benefits can best be jointly achieved from tropical forests by targeting the most additional actions to the most important places. These concepts are illustrated using data from the forests of Indonesia.</p>