Climate Change

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Saving Forests in Paris: Breakthrough for REDD+?
Michele de Nevers
December 18, 2015
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The Paris Climate Agreement Feels Historic, but the Sustainable Development Goals Don’t. Why?
Charles Kenny
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Jonah Busch
December 18, 2015
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So That Was 2015 – CGD Podcast
Rajesh Mirchandani
December 15, 2015
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Forests in the Paris Agreement — Plus Prizes, Protests, and All-Male Panels
Frances Seymour
December 14, 2015
The climate agreement reached Saturday in Paris is a triple win: good for the climate, for development, and for forests.
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High Marks for the Paris Climate Agreement
Jonah Busch
December 11, 2015
The climate agreement from Paris is far-reaching in its implications. The countries of the world have just stated their collective aim for global greenhouse gas emissions to peak as soon as possible, decline rapidly, and reach near-zero in the second half of the century. Two hundred gover...
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Let Countries Trade Carbon
Jonah Busch
December 08, 2015
Québec does it with California. Mexico wants to do it with California too, while California wants to do it with a Brazilian state. European countries have been doing it with each other for years, and China's started doing it with itself. A...
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Royal Jelly and “GNUs”: Postcards from the Paris Climate Summit
Frances Seymour
December 04, 2015
On November 30th, Germany, Norway, and the U.K. (“the GNU”) pledged to provide over $5 billion for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) between now and 2020, “including a significant increase in pay-for-performance finance”.  This pledge i...