Environment

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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...
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A Glimmer of Hope for a Carbon Tax in the US?
April 27, 2015
I’ve spent the last year at CGD working with a team of experts to figure out how to encourage more funders to pay tropical forest countries for results in reducing deforestation.  My CGD colleagues Jonah Busch and Frances Seymour have done extensive research that documents that forests ar...
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Is Better Good Enough? - Andrew Steer
April 21, 2015
Is better good enough? When it comes to climate change, Andrew Steer, President and CEO of the World Resources Institute, says probably not. 
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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.