"Climate Change: Financing Global Forests: The Eliasch Review" by Johan Eliasch

The report includes new modelling and analysis of the global economic impact of continued deforestation and shows that the benefits of halving deforestation could amount to $3.7 trillion over the long term. However, if the international community does not act, the global economic cost of climate change caused by deforestation could amount to $12 trillion.

This comprehensive and detailed report makes a clear and forceful case for forests to be included in international carbon trading mechanisms. It calls for the international community to support forest nations to halve deforestation by 2020 and to make the global forest sector carbon neutral by 2030.


Table of contents
Preface
Background papers
Acknowledgements
Executive summary
1. Introduction
Part I: The challenge of deforestation
2. Forests, climate change and the global economy
3. The drivers of deforestation
4. Sustainable production and poverty reduction
5. The costs of mitigation
Part II: Forests and the international climate change framework: the long-term goal
6. A long-term framework for tackling climate change
7. The current international climate change framework
Part III: The building blocks of forest fi nancing: the medium-term approach
8. Transition to a long-term framework
9. Effective targets for reducing forest emissions
10. Measuring and monitoring emissions from forests
11. Linking to carbon markets
12. Governance and distribution of fi nance
Part IV: International action, capacity building and short-term funding
13. The funding gap and capacity building
14. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index