Carbon offsets from voluntarily avoided deforestation projects are generated based on performance vis-à-vis ex-ante deforestation baselines. We examined the impacts of 27 forest conservation projects in six countries on three continents using synthetic control methods for causal inference. We compare the project baselines with ex-post counterfactuals based on observed deforestation in control sites. Our findings show that most projects have not reduced deforestation. For projects that did, reductions were substantially lower than claimed. Methodologies for constructing deforestation baselines for carbon-offset interventions thus need urgent revisions in order to correctly attribute reduced deforestation to the conservation interventions, thus maintaining both incentives for forest conservation and the integrity of global carbon accounting.
Tag: conservation
A Note on Terms of Gender Equality & Equity: Terminology and hints to improve Gender Equality and Equity in work and everyday life – in the Ethiopian context
GENDER Gender Is a bit trickier. Gender as a concept refers to the roles and responsibilities of boys, men, girls, and women influenced by the society we live in, our traditions, religion, values, culture, and economy. Gender is about the behaviours that are expected of each gender = Gender is about both men and women. These roles and expectations are learned from childhood, they are not determined by biology.
A Note on Terms of Gender Equality & Equity: Terminology and hints to improve Gender Equality and Equity in work and everyday life – in the Ethiopian context
GENDER Gender Is a bit trickier. Gender as a concept refers to the roles and responsibilities of boys, men, girls, and women influenced by the society we live in, our traditions, religion, values, culture, and economy. Gender is about the behaviours that are expected of each gender = Gender is about both men and women. These roles and expectations are learned from childhood, they are not determined by biology.
A Note on Terms of Gender Equality & Equity: Terminology and hints to improve Gender Equality and Equity in work and everyday life – in the Ethiopian context
GENDER Gender Is a bit trickier. Gender as a concept refers to the roles and responsibilities of boys, men, girls, and women influenced by the society we live in, our traditions, religion, values, culture, and economy. Gender is about the behaviours that are expected of each gender = Gender is about both men and women. These roles and expectations are learned from childhood, they are not determined by biology.
Catalysing policy for the conservation of Amazonian peatlands in Peru
Key messages
- Peatlands are major carbon reservoirs that release massive amounts of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere when disturbed. However, their importance is far from being adequately reflected in global and national climate change mitigation policies.
- Peru acknowledges the importance of conserving its vast tropical peatlands but needs to enhance internal capacity, establish a regulatory framework, and generate scientific data to protect them effectively.
- GCS REDD+ scientists working in CIFOR’s Global Comparative Study on REDD+ played a key role in fostering political recognition of peatlands in Peru, by providing new Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) data on peatland areas, improving local MRV capabilities, and facilitating the formation of a Peruvian peatland community to safeguard this ecosystem.
- With assistance from CIFOR scientists, the Government of Peru has established a national definition and regulatory framework for the conservation and sustainable management of peatlands.
- Sustained political backing is essential for implementing and sustaining the regulatory frameworks for peatlands, along with strategies concerning climate change, water regulation, biodiversity conservation, and local livelihood enhancement.
A Note on Terms of Gender Equality & Equity: Terminology and hints to improve Gender Equality and Equity in work and everyday life – in the Ethiopian context
GENDER Gender Is a bit trickier. Gender as a concept refers to the roles and responsibilities of boys, men, girls, and women influenced by the society we live in, our traditions, religion, values, culture, and economy. Gender is about the behaviours that are expected of each gender = Gender is about both men and women. These roles and expectations are learned from childhood, they are not determined by biology.
A Note on Terms of Gender Equality & Equity: Terminology and hints to improve Gender Equality and Equity in work and everyday life – in the Ethiopian context
GENDER Gender Is a bit trickier. Gender as a concept refers to the roles and responsibilities of boys, men, girls, and women influenced by the society we live in, our traditions, religion, values, culture, and economy. Gender is about the behaviours that are expected of each gender = Gender is about both men and women. These roles and expectations are learned from childhood, they are not determined by biology.
A Note on Terms of Gender Equality & Equity: Terminology and hints to improve Gender Equality and Equity in work and everyday life – in the Ethiopian context
GENDER Gender Is a bit trickier. Gender as a concept refers to the roles and responsibilities of boys, men, girls, and women influenced by the society we live in, our traditions, religion, values, culture, and economy. Gender is about the behaviours that are expected of each gender = Gender is about both men and women. These roles and expectations are learned from childhood, they are not determined by biology.
Annual Work Plan 2022-2023 (April 2022 – March 2023)
State of the Forests of The Congo Basin 2021. Facts and figures
The State of the Forests of the Congo Basin (SOF) report is a flagship publication of the Observatory of Forests of Central Africa (OFAC) which provides up-to-date information on the forest ecosystems of Central Africa.