Runsheng Yin is a Professor of Forest Ecosystem Economics and Policy at Michigan State University, USA. Over the past three decades he has conducted research projects evaluating ecosystem restoration programs, analysing forest tenure reforms, accounting for and assessment of forest carbon, and exploring rural sustainable development. He has published over ninety peer reviewed papers and served as an editor-in-chief for the international journal of Forest Policy and Economics.

Introduction

1. A primer on forest carbon policy and economics under the Paris Agreement

2. Understanding and undertaking jurisdictional approaches to governing forest climate actions

3. Forest carbon accounting and assessment: Alternative perspectives and methodologies

4. Outcomes of different frameworks in forest carbon accounting at the local level

5. The forest sector's potential role in national decarbonization: China as an example

6. Carbon leakage induced by forest products trade: Outcomes and implications of alternative accounting practices for China

7. Carbon finance and funding for forest sector climate solutions

8. Risk, uncertainty, and social discounting in coping with climate change

9. Evaluating the evaluated impacts of forest carbon programs and projects

10. Summary and outlook