Carbon Emission Reduction Potential through Sustainable Forest Management in Forest Concession of PT Salaki Summa Sejahtera, Province of West Sumatera
Abstract: A management unit
(MU) of a forest concession holder implementing the sustainable forest
management (SFM) principles, could be involved in reducing Emmission from
Reforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) and carbon trading project. The
fact the strategic in implementing the REDD+ and carbon trading in MU level is
still lack of pilot project and methodology. Therefore, some scenarios must be
developed and tested to find out the best potential of carbon credit in MU
level. The objectives of the research were: to calculate carbon credit in some
SFM scenarios, to analyze of carbon trading project feasibility, and to
determine carbon stock recovery period of logged over area (LOA). The result
revealed that carbon stock and carbon credit of LOA was affected by timber
cutting intensity. The 6th scenario with
lowest annual allowable cutting (AAC) obtained greater carbon credit and profit
coming from timber harvesting income and carbon trading. In other hand, this
scenario has shortest duration of carbon stock recovery period (27 years) and
shorter than its cutting cycle. In this
case, the MU has to recalculate and to decrease its AAC to have highest
benefits from carbon trading in the same cutting cycle period. It will provide double benefits from carbon
trading, those are contribution in achieving the SFM purposes (production,
ecology, social) and climate change mitigation.
Author: Iwan Hilwan, Andry
Indrawan, Supriyanto Supriyanto, Teddy Rusolono
Journal Code: jpkehutanangg120011
