Forestry Actions to Tackle Climate Change and Its Impact on Carbon Emission and Employment Creation in China

Abstract

Currently, climate change, sustainable development and employment problems have been the focus of world attention. This paper focuses on the forestry actions to climate change and its impact on employment in China on the basis of the qualitative analysis and case study. Firstly, it introduces the relationship between Low carbon development and employment; and it elaborates the main forestry actions framework to tackle climate change in China, i.e. Forestry carbon sinks, Forestry carbon sequestration and Forestry carbon substitution; it further introduces the main forestry practices, i.e. the implementation of forestry key project, carbon forestry and energy forestry; then analyzes the impact of forestry key actions on the employment and takes three Carbon pilot projects as cases study; Finally, it draws some conclusions and policy implications. Research results show that China’s forestry actions made positive contributions to tackle climate change through forestry carbon sinks, sequestration and substitution; it also produced positive influence on employment. Therefore, under the double pressures of global climate change and economics recession, it has important strategic significance in growing investment in forestry, vigorously increasing the capacity of forest carbon-sink and promoting forestry green employment.