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Carbon Markets: How Not to Save the Planet
Léelo en español aquí 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...
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Guess Who’s Chopping Down the Amazon Now
By Juan Forero, article originally published by NPR. Though Brazil’s Amazon has been the focus of environmental groups for decades, the deforestation rate there has fallen dramatically in recent years...
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What would it cost to implement deforestation reduction policies in Bolivia?
In conjunction with its partners, the Institute for Advanced Development Studies (INESAD) has designed statistical tools, using extensive real life data, to simulate what kinds of policies are likely...
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Making people more prosperous with forests than without
By Jonah Busch* Tropical forests store carbon that regulates the global climate. They provide clean water to farms. They shelter a dizzying range of unique plants and animals, and are a source of...
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Taking stock of REDD seven years after Stern
By Dr Charles Palmer* The release of the Stern Review in 2006, which looked at a wide range of evidence to estimate the cost of a changing climate, was an important milestone in our understanding of...
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Why and How We Should Preserve Forests: Synergies Between Logging and Forest...
By Teresa de la Fuente The benefits that humans obtain from forest ecosystems are numerous. Forests provide goods such as timber, paper, food (mushrooms, honey, roots, fruits, edible leaves, etc.),...
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¿POR DISEÑO O POR CASUALIDAD? Los Bosques y el desarrollo agrícola de Bolivia
By: Juan Carlos Ledezma* La zonificación agroecológica y socioeconómica (ZAE) comenzó a aplicarse en Bolivia desde el año 1996 con la promulgación del Plan de Uso del Suelo (PLUS) del departamento de...
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Deforestation 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...
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Bolivia’s Joint Mitigation and Adaptation Mechanism in the limelight
Thanks to the collaboration of Candido Pastor, Wilberth Tejerina and Edil Tellez, we had a very interesting program centered on the eco-tourism potential of the lowlands of La Paz. Photo credit: GLP...
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Deforestation 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...
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