Tropical Forests

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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.
BRIEF

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.
POLICY PAPER

Creating a Multilateral Wealth Fund for a Global Public Good: Proposed Governance Arrangements for a Tropical Forest Finance Facility
Michele de Nevers et al.
June 14, 2018
This paper outlines the proposed governance arrangements for the TFFF. The performance payments would be allocated as part of a global offer, available to all countries with extensive tropical forests that meet the performance standards.