Schwartzman, S.

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The End of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Brazil has two major opportunities to end the clearing of its Amazon forests and to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions substantially. The first is its formal announcement within UN climate treaty negotiations in 2008 of an Amazon deforestation reduction target, which prompted Norway to commit $...
Journal Article 14 May 2010 - 17:25
REDD+ in the Post-Copenhagen World: Recommendations for Interim Public Finance
REDD+ holds the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve the livelihoods of forest-dependent people, and conserve biodiversity. The interim public funding announced during and since the COP15 could play a strategic role in helping to realize this potential. The overall goal of this...
Report 13 May 2010 - 20:37
Getting REDD Right: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
This paper synthesizes principles and concepts about how carbon market compensation for reduced deforestation -- market-based REDD -- can help cut global emissions equitably and effectively, while contributing to development goals, protecting biodiversity and watersheds and benefitting indigenous...
Report 27 Jan 2010 - 20:28