By Chris Lang An article in Bloomberg last week takes a detailed look at the Alto Mayo REDD+ project in Peru. Covering an area of 182,000 hectares in the San Martín region of northern Peru, the project is run by Conservation International together with Peru’s National Service for Natural Protected Areas Protected by the State…
Tag: Baselines
Larry Lohmann: “The problem is not ‘bad baselines’ but the concept of counterfactual baselines itself”
In June 2016, I wrote a post based on a paper published in the International Forestry Review titled, “The ‘virtual economy’ of REDD+ projects: does private certification of REDD+ projects ensure their environmental integrity?”.
The virtual economy of REDD: Conflicts of interest, hot air, and dodgy baselines
The virtual economy of REDD: To generate carbon offsets, REDD projects have to compare project emissions with a counterfactual baseline scenario. But these are “untestable guesses” says a new paper.