国际清算银行：碳价格与热带森林的重新造林（英文版）

I discuss recent research joint with J. Assun¸c˜ao, L. P. Hansen and T. Munson that shows that reforestation in tropical forests has great potential for carbon capture. This research accounts for the dynamics of carbon accumulation in tropical forests and uses a rich data set from the Brazilian Amazon, which encompasses 60% of the largest tropical forest on earth. Specifically, we document that (a) in a business-as-usual scenario, the Brazilian Amazon would emit 17 Gigatons of CO2e in the nex