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REDDheads: How Kevin Conrad took REDD from New York to the UNFCCC

Posted on 8 February 201717 January 2022

Kevin Conrad dreamed up REDD as an MBA project in Columbia University, New York. He then persuaded PNG and Costa Rica to present REDD to the UNFCCC.

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REDDheads: Sheryl Sturges and a coal-fired power plant in the USA “offset” by tree planting in Guatemala

Posted on 11 December 201614 June 2018

In 1987, Sheryl Sturges was Director of Strategic Planning at AES Corporation, the US-based energy company. AES was planning to build a new 181 MW coal-fired power plant in Connecticut. But the company’s CEO, Roger W. Sant, was worried about climate change.

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REDDheads: Norman Myers and his 200 million hectares of tree plantations

Posted on 3 December 201614 June 2018

In the previous post in the “REDDheads” series, about the people behind REDD, REDD-Monitor looked at Freeman Dyson’s thought experiment in the mid-1970s about planting vast areas with trees to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere.

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REDDheads: Freeman Dyson and his CO2 sucking tree plantations

Posted on 11 November 201614 June 2018

Freeman Dyson is a theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is known for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering.

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REDDheads: The people and organisations behind REDD

Posted on 7 October 201617 January 2022

By Chris Lang REDD did not appear from nowhere. Behind the idea are people and institutions who have promoted REDD in different ways over the past decades. Understanding REDD means understanding the players involved and their motivations for promoting a scheme to generate carbon credits from tropical forests instead of finding ways to keep fossil…

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