The Potential of Carbon-Offset as an Integrative Ecocide Prevention Instrument with Climate Change Mitigation

Abstract

This research is built from the concept that crimes against the environment also have implications for climate change. In this case, ecocides in the form of forest burning that cause Transboundary Haze to contribute positively in increasing carbon emissions in the atmosphere. Therefore, an integrated prevention instrument is needed to simultaneously mitigate forest fires and climate change. Thus, this study aims to examine the potential of Carbon Offset, or what in the regime of Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2021 concerning the Economic Value of Carbon calls it Greenhouse Gas Emission Offsetting, as an alternative instrument in modern environmental restoration. The research method uses normative juridical with a conceptual approach and legislation. The novelty of this research is to find a correlation between the impact of environmental destruction and climate change, as well as an analysis of carbon trading as an alternative solution. The results of the study indicate that the market mechanism-based carbon offset scheme is expected to be able to change the behavior of the extractive industry in forest land use, so that forest burning is no longer a profitable business option.