Why Forests? Why Now?

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Five Key Findings from Why Forests? Why Now? The Science, Economics, and Politics of Tropical Forests and Climate Change
Frances Seymour
June 13, 2017
1. Achieving climate stability requires conservation of tropical forests. 2. Protecting tropical forests could lower the overall costs and accelerate the achievement of global climate stability. 3. Forests generate many non-climate goods and services that are essential to meeting sustainable develop...
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Forests and Poverty: Barking Up the Wrong Tree?
Frances Seymour
May 08, 2017
Most discussions of the linkage between forests and poverty—including one last week at the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF)—focus on how to increase income to poor households from the harvest and sale of forest products. But at least as much attention should be paid to forest destr...
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Corporate Commitments: Necessary but Not Sufficient to End Tropical Deforestation
Frances Seymour
January 30, 2017
Over the last few years, an increasing number of companies that produce, trade, or buy “forest risk” commodities have pledged to get deforestation out of their supply chains. But voluntary efforts by progressive companies will not on their own be sufficient to end tropical deforestation....
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A Few Thoughts for the Climate Change Skeptic at Your Thanksgiving Dinner Table
Frances Seymour
November 22, 2016
Is global warming real? You bet it is. And even if you haven’t yet felt its impacts, some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people are already bearing the brunt of climate instability.