ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the results of the study and some of the implications for policy. It explores some of the questions about implementation that the study raises. To test the magnitude of the uncertainty in the model, the chapter discusses the results of some simple sensitivity analyses. It outlines the importance of the shape of the forestry growth curve and its relation to dynamic analysis and policy formulation. The purpose of the research on carbon sequestering was to develop a range of least-cost estimates for carbon sequestration as expressed in marginal and total cost curves. These estimates would allow preliminary comparison with least-cost estimates for alternative technologies that could reduce net carbon emissions. The estimates of increases in carbon-sequestration rates through improved practices on forestlands of low productivity are obviously based on the difference between two factors: the rate of net carbon uptake after treatment and the rate of sequestration in the absence of treatment.
