Integrating bamboo forests into the carbon markets: Insights from China

作者：Chunyu Pan, Anil Shrestha, Chong Li, Mengjia Ying, Jie Duan, Mei He, Weirong Zhu, Qinghui Chai, John L. Innes, Robert Kozak, Guomo Zhou, Guangyu Wang · 发表于：Journal of Environmental Management · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.127203 · 被引用次数：5 · 研究领域：Bamboo properties and applications、Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management、Forest Management and Policy

In the course of fighting climate change, bamboo forests are increasingly recognized as a modern nature-based solution. Developing bamboo-based carbon projects can bring triple-bottom-line benefits to livelihood, climate, and industry, but they can also face various barriers. Based on a qualitative research framework, this paper discusses the key challenges and lessons learned from China. It then describes some of the innovative approaches that have been adopted to overcome these challenges. We identified four overarching challenges: economic, market, technical, and social. First, the rising labor costs and declining market demand for bamboo products are critical economic challenges, leading to high upfront project development costs and increasingly lower financial viability of bamboo-based investments. Second, the low transaction demand and the shifts in the national offset market have contributed to the market challenges. Moreover, many bamboo-rich regions face technical difficulties, such as lacking forestry infrastructure and skilled bamboo-specific carbon experts. Fourth, social challenges exist regarding the information asymmetry between farmers and project developers and the difficulties encountered when managing forest land-use rights in China. Inspired by several recent innovations, this paper recommends a green financing model integrating large-scale, professional forest management and the essential downstream bamboo industry development via strategies such as conce...