Large mammalian herbivores manifest a strong top‐down control on ecosystems that can
transform entire landscapes, but their impacts have not been reviewed in the context of …

" Forest loss, primarily tropical deforestation and forest degradation, accounts for
approximately 17 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions (Rogner et al. 2007) …

By Nicholas Stern* quickly as possible, because policy decisions are both urgent and
moving quickly—particularly following the recent United Nations Framework Convention on …

Forests provide multiple benefits at local to global scales. These include the global public
good of carbon sequestration and local and national level contributions to livelihoods for …

Some model experiments predict a large-scale substitution of Amazon forest by savannah-
like vegetation by the end of the twenty-first century. Expanding global demands for biofuels …

Brazil has two major opportunities to end the clearing of its Amazon forest and to reduce
global greenhouse gas emissions substantially. The first is its formal announcement within …

The Brazilian Amazon is globally important for biodiversity, climate, and geochemical cycles,
but is also among the least developed regions in Brazil. Economic development is often …

This article looks into the scope and equity implications of applying payments for
environmental services (PES) as a REDD implementation mechanism in the Brazilian …

Benefit-sharing mechanisms are a central design aspect of REDD+ because they help to
create the necessary incentives to reduce carbon emissions. However, if stakeholders do …

Mechanisms to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD)
have been gaining momentum as a way to combat global warming, fund forest conservation …