December 14, 2015
Forests in the Paris Agreement — Plus Prizes, Protests, and All-Male Panels
The climate agreement reached Saturday in Paris is a triple win: good for the climate, for development, and for forests.
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December 8, 2015
Let Countries Trade Carbon
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. And while some find it icky, the future of our species depends on it happening. It, of course, is carbon trading.
November 19, 2015
At Paris Summit, Make Forests Part of the Climate Solution
In two weeks the world will meet in Paris for a long-awaited summit on climate change known as COP 21. In the face of despicable attacks last week, the climate conference is to be an expression of hope and solidarity.
October 29, 2015
Paying Tropical Forest Countries to Keep Trees Standing Is a No-Brainer
A new CGD working group report says performance payments can play an important role in providing visible and meaningful incentives to reduce deforestation. That’s important because the benefit to the global climate from keeping trees standing is huge.
August 23, 2015
Tropical Forests Equal to the Size of India Will Be Lost by 2050, Unless We Act
An area of tropical forest the size of India will be deforested in the next 35 years, burning through more than one-sixth of the remaining carbon that can be emitted if global warming is to be kept below 2 degrees Celsius (the “planetary carbon budget”), but many of these emissions could be cheaply avoided by putting a price on carbon.
June 24, 2015
A Preacher’s Daughter Reads the Pope’s Encyclical
In 1989, I was asked to give the “Earth Day” sermon at the Jakarta Community Church. While there are more than 25 years and an infinite distance between Frances’ sermon and Francis’ encyclical, I was curious to see what the Pope would do with a similar assignment.
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