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Tag: Cost of REDD

McREDD: How McKinsey ‘cost-curves’ are distorting REDD

Posted on 27 November 201027 November 2010

McKinsey & Company has benefited from a series of consultancies, advising governments about REDD. But a new report from Rainforest Foundation UK uses examples from McKinsey’s REDD advice in Indonesia, Guyana and the Democratic Republic of Congo to demonstrate that the advice McKinsey gives is based on flawed analysis and misleading for decision-makers.

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Does the Opportunity Cost Approach Indicate the Real Cost of REDD+?

Posted on 5 August 201024 September 2020

“Curbing deforestation is a highly cost-effective way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and has the potential to offer significant reductions fairly quickly.” With this statement from his 2006 report, “The Economics of Climate Change”, Nicholas Stern, Lord Stern of Brentford Kt, FBA, gave REDD a huge boost. But how much truth there is in this…

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