The contribution of forest carbon credit projects to addressing the climate change challenge by Wytze van der Gaast, Richard Sikkema and Moriz Vohrer Climate Policy, Volume 18, 2018 - Issue 1 This article addresses the question of how forestry projects, given the recently improved standards for the accounting of carbon sequestration, can benefit from existing and emerging carbon markets in the world. For a long time, forestry projects have been set up for the purpose of generating carbon credits. They were surrounded by uncertainties about the permanence of carbon sequestration in trees, potential replacement of deforestation due to projects (leakage), and
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