Tropical Forests

More from the Series

Blog Post
For India to Take Climate Leadership, It Should Keep Forests in the Fiscal Devolution Formula
Jonah Busch et al.
October 24, 2019
Forests have been all over the news recently as the Brazilian Amazon burns and the world reacts. One of the most consequential decisions for India’s forests will be made soon in a surprising place—the country’s 15th Finance Commission.
POLICY PAPERS
Ecological Fiscal Transfers and Subnational Budgets: Did Forest-Based Fiscal Devolution Lead Indian States to Increase Forestry Expenditure?
Jonah Busch et al.
October 24, 2019
India’s ecological fiscal transfers provide Indian states with the incentive to increase their forestry budgets as an investment in increased future shares of central taxes. In this paper, we look at whether states are yet taking advantage of this opportunity.
Blog Post
When Foes Become Friends: Indigenous Rights and REDD+ in Indonesia
William Savedoff
November 13, 2018
Blog Post
What Will It Take to Stop Tropical Deforestation? Lessons from a Case Study of Indigenous Peoples and REDD+ in Peru
William Savedoff
August 30, 2018
When I first heard about international programs that would pay to reduce deforestation, I assumed that indigenous peoples who inhabit tropical forests would be unanimously supportive. As I should have anticipated, indigenous peoples and their organizations are quite heterogenous in their reactions t...
Blog Post
A Global Offer to Reduce Deforestation: $5 Billion a Year for 20 Years
Michele de Nevers
June 27, 2018
When it comes to measuring development impacts, nothing beats forests. With ever-improving satellite monitoring technology, measuring global forest cover is each year easier, cheaper, and more accurate. Which means that—whatever you want to call it (pay for performance, results-based aid)...
Blog Post
Getting to the Source: What’s Driving Tropical Deforestation?
William Savedoff
June 27, 2018
It’s been ten years since climate change negotiators agreed to incorporate REDD+ into the process of slowing global warming. Starting today, the Norwegian government is hosting the Oslo Tropical Forest Forum to look at the results and remaining challenges of this broad effort.
BRIEFS
The Tropical Forest Finance Facility
Michele de Nevers et al.
June 14, 2018
A proposal for a pay-for-performance mechanism to finance sustainable development goals and global public goods that maximizes the efficient use of public credit and builds on major technology breakthroughs for measuring results.