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Look to the Forests: How Performance Payments can Slow Climate Change

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  • Nancy Birdsall
  • Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

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This report argues that what is urgently needed is a tested but far from fully exploited approach to funding forest conservation: pay-for-performance transfers, under which public (and private) funders pay governments of forest countries annually as a function of their verified performance in reducing deforestation-based emissions of greenhouse gases.

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  • Nancy Birdsall & Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, 2015. "Look to the Forests: How Performance Payments can Slow Climate Change," Working Papers id:7814, eSocialSciences.
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    1. Alexandre Kossoy & Grzegorz Peszko & Klaus Oppermann & Nicolai Prytz & Alyssa Gilbert & Noemie Klein & Long Lam & Lindee Wong, "undated". "Carbon Pricing Watch 2015," World Bank Publications - Reports 21986, The World Bank Group.
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    1. World Bank, 2017. "The Potential Role of Enhanced Bond Structures in Forest Climate Finance," World Bank Publications - Reports 28586, The World Bank Group.

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