The REDDplus mechanism currently negotiated under the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has developed rapidly but not as expected …

Abstract Achieving the 1.5–2.0° C temperature targets of the Paris climate agreement
requires not only reducing emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) but also increasing …

The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technical Advice of the UNFCCC is focused on
methodological issues that include reference levels of CO2 emissions from deforestations …

Abstract The United Nations climate treaty may soon include a mechanism for compensating
tropical nations that succeed in reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and forest …

Demand-side restrictions on high-deforestation commodities are expanding as a climate
policy, but their impact on reducing tropical deforestation and emissions has yet to be …

We estimate and map the impacts that alternative national and subnational economic
incentive structures for reducing emissions from deforestation (REDD+) in Indonesia would …

International climate negotiations have stressed the importance of considering emissions
from forest degradation under the planned REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation …

Reducing tropical deforestation is potentially a large-scale and low-cost strategy for
mitigating climate change. Yet previous efforts to project the cost-effectiveness of policies to …

Tropical forest conservation is considered a low-cost option for climate change mitigation.
But mitigation cost assessments have featured opportunity costs, neglecting policy …

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) provides financial
compensation to land owners who avoid converting standing forests to other land uses. In …