Nicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, is a British economist. After a spell as the World Bank’s chief economist, he worked for the British government and in 2006 produced the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.
Tag: Carbon Offsets
Bolivia’s Joint Mitigation and Adaptation Mechanism: An alternative to REDD?
In August 2012, the Bolivian government presented a proposal to the UNFCCC titled “Proposal for the Development of the Joint Mitigation and Adaptation Mechanism for the Integral and Sustainable Management of Forests”.
Oil palm plantations replacing forests in Kalimantan
A paper published this week in Nature Climate Change confirms that the expansion of oil palm plantations in Indonesia has come largely at the expense of the country’s forests. Between 1990 and 2010, 90% of oil palm plantations in Kalimantan were established on forested land (47% intact, 22% logged, 21% agroforests).
Alarm bells ringing: Olam International and REDD in the Republic of Congo
Olam International and REDD: Having trashed the forests for decades, Olam International’s subsidiary CIB now wants to cash in on REDD in one concession while converting others to oil palm.
Counterfactuals and REDD: Confused? You will be
By Chris Lang Trying to calculate how much avoided deforestation has been achieved through a REDD project is not an easy matter. In fact it’s impossible without knowing what would have happened in the absence of the REDD project.