A global evaluation of the effectiveness of voluntary REDD+ projects at reducing deforestation and degradation in the moist tropics

A Guizar‐Coutiño, JPG Jones, A Balmford… - Conservation …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) projects aim to
contribute to climate change mitigation by protecting and enhancing carbon stocks in …

Committed to restoring tropical forests: an overview of Brazil's and Indonesia's restoration targets and policies

C Dockendorff, S Fuss, R Agra, V Guye… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The restoration of tropical forests has become a popular nature-based solution for climate
change mitigation, protection of biodiversity, and improving the livelihoods of local …

Broadening the focus of forest conservation beyond carbon

Z Buřivalová, N Yoh, RA Butler, HSSC Sagar, ET Game - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Two concurrent trends are contributing towards a much broader view of forest conservation.
First, the appreciation of the role of forests as a nature-based climate solution has grown …

A systematic comparison of deforestation drivers and policy effectiveness across the Amazon biome

A Hänggli, SA Levy, D Armenteras… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The Amazon biome, spanning nine countries, has one of the highest rates of deforestation
worldwide. This deforestation contributes to biodiversity loss, climate change, the spread of …

Permanence of avoided deforestation in a Transamazon REDD+ project (Pará, Brazil)

CD Carrilho, G Demarchi, AE Duchelle, S Wunder… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rigorous impact evaluations of local REDD+ (reduced emissions from deforestation and
forest degradation) initiatives have shown some positive outcomes for forests, while well …

Evaluating the impacts of a large-scale voluntary REDD+ project in Sierra Leone

M Malan, R Carmenta, E Gsottbauer, P Hofman… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Carbon offsets from the REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation)
framework to protect forests are expected to see a 100-fold increase in market value by …

Systematic review of the actual emissions reductions of carbon offset projects across all major sectors

B Probst, M Toetzke, A Kontoleon, L Diaz Anadon… - 2023 - research-collection.ethz.ch
Net-zero targets have significantly increased carbon offset demand. Carbon offsets are
issued based on ex-ante estimates of project emissions reductions, though systematic …

The new Brazilian gold rush: Is Amazonia at risk?

LM Diele-Viegas, EJAL Pereira, CFD Rocha - Forest Policy and Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
The Brazilian parliament has emitted intentions on releasing mining within Amazonian
indigenous lands since President Jair Bolsonaro took office in January 2019, disregarding …

[HTML][HTML] Research Advancement in Forest Property Rights: A Thematic Review over Half a Decade Using Natural Language Processing

O Beriozovas, D Perkumienė, M Škėma, A Saoualih… - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
This paper proposes a thematic literature review of advances in the literature on forest
property rights over the first half of this decade. From a methodological point of view, we …

[HTML][HTML] Brazilian public funding for biodiversity research in the Amazon

LF Stegmann, FM Franca, RL Carvalho… - Perspectives in Ecology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Brazilian Amazon is one of Earth's most biodiverse and ecologically important
regions. However, research investments for biodiversity in the biome are disproportionately …