Deforestation

More from the Series

ESSAYS
Corporate Commitments to Deforestation-Free Supply Chains: An Expedition
May 12, 2015
This essay addresses the challenges likely to be faced by corporations and non-governmental organizations as they collaborate to implement recent commitments to deforestation-free commodity supply chains. The essay takes as its inspiration and a source of lessons learned Theodore Roosevelt’s 1...
Blog Post
SDG Fifteen: Four Observations on Forests
April 06, 2015
This is one of a series of CGD blogs on tweaks to the SDG targets. Poor Goal 15.  Forced to accommodate terrestrial ecosystems, forests, desertification, land degradation, and biodiversity, it has the longest title among the SDGs. It is one of the only goals that is too long to tweet. 
POLICY PAPERS
Evolution of Finance for REDD+ in the UK: A History and Overview of the UK Government’s Engagement with Forest Finance, with a Focus on Performance- Based Payments for REDD+
Kate Dooley
and
Charlie Parker
February 24, 2015
This paper offers a perspective on the political factors that have influenced the size, nature, and timing of UK commitments to forest finance, specifically the significant and committed finance being programmed under the International Climate Fund (ICF), during a time of austerity in the UK.  ...
Blog Post
Keystone Pipeline Shows Congress’s Climate Change Confusion
January 29, 2015
The Senate voted today (Thursday) to move ahead with legislation to build the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport millions of barrels of dirty tar sands oil from Canada to the US Gulf Coast, mostly to be refined and exported to other countries (legislation destined for the Pres...