Deforestation

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Why Aren’t Forests More Prominent on the Agenda for COP20 Climate Talks in Lima?
Frances Seymour
December 02, 2014
Conserving the world’s tropical forests is a critical element of any global strategy to protect against climate change—and promote development, for that matter—but we haven’t heard much about it being on the agenda for the COP20  climate talks in Lima star...
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Two Global Challenges, One Solution: International Cooperation to Combat Climate Change and Tropical Deforestation - Working Paper 388
Antonio G.M. La Viña
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Alaya de Leon
December 02, 2014
This paper provides an analysis of the international political dynamics around the reduction of tropical deforestation and forest degradation as a climate mitigation strategy, emphasizing the necessity of an enabling environment and sustainable financing to support the scaling up of these efforts gl...
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The Baker’s Dozen: A 748-Year-Old Solution for Climate Offsets

Jonah Busch
November 19, 2014
Can King Henry III’s royal decree governing bakers in 13th-century England teach us how to fight climate change, the greatest global challenge of the 21st century?  I’m pretty sure it can. Let me explain...
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Jurisdictional Forest Offsets: California Dreamin’?
Frances Seymour
November 19, 2014
After two weeks in Indonesia I returned to Washington to discover that fall had turned to winter in my absence. A new CGD Working Paper explains how the prospects of jurisdictional forest offsets have experienced a similar chill in California since first proposed in the late 2000s.