Deforestation

More from the Series

Blog Post
Does Deforestation Increase Malaria Rates? Not in Africa, We’re Surprised to Find
Sebastian Bauhoff
and
Jonah Busch
March 22, 2018
Deforestation isn’t associated with higher malaria prevalence in children in 17 African countries. Nor is it associated with higher fever in children in 41 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. That’s the surprising conclusion of our new CGD working paper.
Blog Post
Guyana’s Forest Preservation Agreement: Hopes, Fears, and Consequences
William Savedoff
February 21, 2018
WORKING PAPERS
Guyana’s REDD+ Agreement with Norway: Perceptions of and Impacts on Indigenous Communities - Working Paper 476
Tim Laing
February 21, 2018
This report examines the impact of the REDD+ agreement between Guyana and Norway on indigenous communities in the country. It aims to understand the concerns, hopes, and fears of indigenous communities at the start of the agreement, and the effects, if any, that communities have faced from REDD+.
Blog Post
Why Forests? Why Now? New Developments for the New Year
Frances Seymour
and
Jonah Busch
January 12, 2018
Just over a year ago, we released our book Why Forests? Why Now? The Science, Economics, and Politics of Tropical Forests and Climate Change. To ensure the widest possible distribution, we are now delighted to make the full book available online for free.
WORKING PAPERS
Encouraging State Governments to Protect and Restore Forests Using Ecological Fiscal Transfers: India’s Tax Revenue Distribution Reform - Working Paper 473
Jonah Busch
and
Anit Mukherjee
December 13, 2017
India’s tax revenue distribution reform creates the world’s first ecological fiscal transfers (EFTs) for forest cover, and a potential model for other countries. In this paper we discuss the origin of India’s EFTs and their potential effects. In a simple preliminary analy...
Blog Post
Results-Based Payments to Reduce Deforestation
Frances Seymour
August 03, 2017
The 2015 Paris agreement incorporates a framework of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (Redd+). Here are three reasons why Redd+ is a valuable tool in the fight against climate change, and responses to three common criticisms of the framework that no longer hold up.
Blog Post
The 10 Sustainable Development Goals that Rainforests Can Help Us Achieve
Jonah Busch
August 03, 2017
Tropical forests help people live safer, healthier, and more productive lives in many ways, not least by reducing climate change. In fact, tropical forests contribute to achieving more than half of the 17 sustainable development goals agreed by world leaders in 2015.