Look to the Forests: How Performance Payments can Slow Climate Change

Nancy Birdsall and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

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Abstract: This report argues that what is urgently needed is a tested but far from fully exploited approach to funding forest conservation: pay-for-performance transfers, under which public (and private) funders pay governments of forest countries annually as a function of their verified performance in reducing deforestation-based emissions of greenhouse gases.

Keywords: climate change; forest conservation; greenhouse gases; public; private; governments; countries; Performance Payments; deforestation; management; developing countries; REDD+; carbom emission; Paris (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-12
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