Environment

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Blog Post
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.
WORKING PAPERS
The California REDD+ Experience: The Ongoing Political History of California’s Initiative to Include Jurisdictional REDD+ Offsets within Its Cap-and-Trade System - Working Paper 386
Jesse Lueders et al.
November 19, 2014
For the last several years, California has considered the idea of recognizing, within its greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program, offsets generated by foreign states and provinces through reduced tropical forest destruction and degradation and related conservation and sustainability efforts, known as ...
Blog Post
Will More Red States Constrain More REDD+ Finance?
Frances Seymour
November 17, 2014
Among the many questions raised by the Republican takeover of the US Senate is what impact it will have on US international climate policy.
POLICY PAPERS
US Support for REDD+: Reflections on the Past and Future Outlook
Michael Wolosin
and
Donna Lee
November 17, 2014
The United States, as a nation with a strong connection to its large land base, has been a supporter over many years of forest management and conservation. Because this long-held vision is shared across a broad spectrum of the US public, the United States has been a strong supporter of using fore...
Blog Post
Are the US and G-20 Finally Leading on Climate?
Michele de Nevers
November 14, 2014
Update November 17: As expected, the United States and Japan announced their pledges of $3 billion and $1.5 billion, respectively, to the Green Climate Fund at the G-20 summit in Australia.  The United Kingdom is set to announce a £650 million ($1 billion pledge) in Berlin later this week...
Blog Post
Tropical Forests Offer up to 24–30 Percent of Potential Climate Mitigation
Jonah Busch
and
Jens Engelmann
November 04, 2014
Blog Post
What If We Had a Safe and Natural Way to Capture and Store Carbon?
Frances Seymour
November 04, 2014
No need to imagine “what if?” In fact, we already have a safe and natural technology for carbon capture and storage (CCS). It’s called “tropical forests.”