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WORKING PAPER

Climate Policy Constraints and NGO Entrepreneurship: The Story of Norway’s Leadership in REDD+ Financing - Working Paper 389
Erlend A. T. Hermansen
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Sjur Kasa
December 03, 2014
Norway – a small northern country with only 5 million inhabitants – is at present a global leader in REDD+ financing. In this paper, we explain why and how this happened by telling the story about the emergence of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) in 2007...
Blog Post

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...
Blog Post

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.