Communities need more than money to stop clearing their forests, new research...
According to a recent study funded by the World Bank and published in Science magazine, tropical land use change was responsible for 7 to 14 percent of gross human-induced carbon emissions between 2000...
View ArticleCarbon Markets: How not to save the planet
BOOK REVIEW Upsetting the Offset: The Political Economy of Carbon Markets Mayfly Books. By Ioulia Fenton Let’s say you live in a fairly rich country and you are actually quite well off. You use lots of...
View ArticleNews: REDD+ Transaction Costs and Games for a New Climate
In continuation with the SimPachamama launch month at INESAD, this week has seen a number of articles published around the topics of gaming, deforestation and climate change: What would it cost to...
View ArticleDeforestation reduced – mission accomplished or too good to be true?
By: Lykke E. Andersen* During the last decade, Bolivia had one of the highest per capita deforestation rates in the World (1). Apart from this being decidedly unkind to Mother Earth and exacerbating...
View ArticleBolivia’s Joint Mitigation and Adaptation Mechanism in the limelight
During the first week of September 2014, the California-based film company GLP films came to Bolivia to make a video about the Joint Mitigation and Adaptation Mechanism for the Integral and Sustainable...
View ArticleDeforestation and reforestation in Bolivia: A thought experiment
By: Lykke E. Andersen* Within the Bolivian government, there are parts that encourage a massive expansion of the agricultural frontier, and other parts that work to control deforestation in order to...
View ArticleOil exploitation in protected areas – a contradiction in terms?
By: Lykke E. Andersen* During this week’s Climate Change Conference in La Paz, several participants expressed concern about Bolivia’s plans for oil drilling in National Parks following the recent...
View ArticleAre we inadvertently doing something good for the environment?
By: Lykke E. Andersen* To celebrate Earth Day 2017, which is tomorrow, I would like to highlight the important findings of a paper by Campbell et al. published earlier this month in Nature (1). The...
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