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: Financing REDD
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”.
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.
Interview with Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, head of Indonesia’s REDD+ Task Force: “We are starting a new programme, a new paradigm, a new concept, a new way of seeing things”
Interview with Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, head of Indonesia’s REDD+ Task Force. Jakarta, May 2012. A second interview followed with Heru Prasetyo, Deputy I UKP4 and a member of the REDD+ Task Force[*], in July 2012.
Down the rabbit hole: REDD in the CDM?
At the end of last week, the number of credits issued under the Clean Development Mechanism reached one billion. “This exciting milestone is a testament to the expanding use of the CDM,”, according to Christiana Figueres, the UNFCCC’s Executive Secretary.