Lorenzo Sileci

This study examines the National Greening Program (NGP) in the Philippines, a major tree planting initiative involving more than 80,500 localised projects that have directly or indirectly generated hundreds of thousands of jobs. Read more

The carbon tax introduced in British Columbia, Canada in 2018 is found to have had positive impacts on air quality. However the health co-benefits have been greatest in less polluted, less densely-populated and better-off neighbourhoods - highlighting that a carbon tax can exacerbate existing variations in pollution and health, where poorer areas are worse affected. Read more

The authors of this paper evaluate the effectiveness of Indonesia’s moratorium on forest concessions (between 2011 and 2018) by applying a matched triple difference strategy to a unique panel dataset. Read more

This article examines the impact of Colombia’s lockdown on forest fires, motivated by satellite data showing a particularly large upsurge of fires at around the time of lockdown implementation. Read more

This article reports on a study which shows how a carbon tax introduced in the Canadian province of British Columbia led to a reduction in air pollution and health benefits. Read more

Ben Groom, Charles Palmer and Lorenzo Sileci demonstrate that Indonesia’s moratorium on forest concessions delivered cheap but modest reductions in carbon emissions – and call for new policies as well as sources of finance to drive further cuts to emissions from deforestation globally. Read more