As protecting forests are key to tackling climate change, a family of policies known as ‘reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation’ (REDD) were designed to provide financial incentives to maintain and increase, rather than reduce, forest cover globally. Read more
What role do forests play in the carbon cycle and climate change? Combined with the sun’s energy, the carbon captured... Read more
Acre State in Brazil is at the forefront of efforts to institutionalize jurisdictional-scale policies that aim to reduce emissions from... Read more
Laing, Timothy, Taschini, Luca and Palmer, Charles (2016). In: Environmental Conservation Read more
This paper examines the impact of electoral cycles and the introduction of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) policy... Read more
REDD (Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation), broadened to REDD+, has recently emerged as a potentially important component of... Read more
This paper examines the impact of electoral cycles and the introduction of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) policy... Read more
The decision of whether to retain forest or convert to another land use is affected by uncertainty over future land use returns. This paper examines the design of conservation payments to landowners under uncertainty. Payments are either indexed to the returns from deforestation (agriculture), or to a market value associated with forest nonuse benefits. Payment size depends on the degree of correlation between payments and agricultural returns, and their relative volatility. Market-based payments for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) are simulated for Brazilian soybean growers. Payments indexed to carbon prices are larger than those indexed to international soybean prices. (JEL Q23, Q24) Read more
Ruben Lubowski, Alexander Golub, Rowan Parkhouse and Luca Taschini (2014) Chapter in ‘IETA GHG Market Report 2014’. External link to... Read more
