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Reducing Deforestation by Paying for Performance – Michele de Nevers

8/7/12

Michele

Reducing carbon emissions from forest clearing and degradation has become an important part of the international climate agenda. But how can we create incentives to reduce deforestation, and how can we measure success? My guest on this week’s Wonkcast, visiting senior associate Michele de Nevers, tells me that the answers to these questions are more valuable than ever – if we don’t act quickly, our forests will disappear.

IMF to the Rescue on Climate and Sustainable Development? — David Roodman and Michele de Nevers

6/18/12

Christine Lagarde
IMF managing director Christine Lagarde startled IFI watchers last week by warning at a CGD-hosted speech that the world faces “a triple crisis—an economic crisis, an environmental crisis and, increasing, a social crisis.”

Lagarde’s remarks, which I report on at greater length here, would not have been newsworthy coming from the head of an international environmental NGO or even the head of the World Bank, but from the head of the IMF, a citadel of economic orthodoxy, they surprised and delighted many in the development community, especially those alarmed by the looming development impacts of runaway climate change.

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