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REDD Dawn

COPENHAGEN — If there is one topic at the COP that gets people excited, it is the issue of international forests. Many people I’ve talked to, from delegate members of developing countries to negotiators for major corporations, see a lot of potential for REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation)to have a major impact […]

Curbing Deforestation Emissions: A REDD Primer

A bipartisan group of government, business, and NGO leaders—boasting D.C. star power like John Podesta and Lincoln Chafee—is urging Congress to make tropical forest conservation a key facet of its climate and energy legislation. According to The Commission on Climate and Tropical Forests’ Protecting the Climate Forests, the deforestation and degradation of tropical forests accounts […]

Overseeing Avoided Deforestation: Time for New Regulators?

After exploring some of the key questions in Waxman-Markey’s tropical conservation provisions here, Andrew teamed with RFF’s Nigel Purvis and Ray Kopp to write this issue brief proposing the creation of a new U.S. regulatory entity to the administration of international forest carbon offset program. According to authors, “Existing federal agencies are ill‐equipped to manage […]