BIBLIOMETRIC AND NARRATIVE LITERATURE REVIEW ON CARBON PRICING FOR FORESTRY AND LAND USE

Abstract

Economic activities not only enhance human well being, but also create environmental degradation. One significant form of this degradation is climate change caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In Indonesia, the highest GHG emissions come from energy sector and Forest and Other Land Use (FOLU) sector. Emissions in FOLU sector caused by deforestation, forest fire, oil palm productions, etc. This study aims to analyzed the research trends about implementation of carbon pricing especially in FOLU sector. Bibliometric analysis was conducted by employing 929 research data from the Scopus database published from 2003 to 2023. The research was using VOS viewer to visualised research topics and cluster analysis. Due to limited access to the full texts of the relevant articles, this study employed a narrative literature review approach, as a systematic literature review could not be conducted under these constraints. This study found that many articles explain about how land-use change resulting from oil palm plantation expansion is a major driver of peatland alteration and a significant source of carbon emissions in the land-use change sector in Indonesia. It was found from the bibliographic study that recent studies have increasingly focused on topics such as blue carbon, carbon neutrality, carbon tax, etc. In line with this, methodological approaches like computable general equilibrium models, and scenario simulation are being used more frequently in current research on carbon pricing. The most prominent and widely discussed research topics include land use change, deforestation, climate change, etc.