Climate Change

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WORKING PAPERS
Guyana’s REDD+ Agreement with Norway: Perceptions of and Impacts on Indigenous Communities - Working Paper 476
Tim Laing
February 21, 2018
This report examines the impact of the REDD+ agreement between Guyana and Norway on indigenous communities in the country. It aims to understand the concerns, hopes, and fears of indigenous communities at the start of the agreement, and the effects, if any, that communities have faced from REDD+.
Blog Post
Chart of the Week #6: Gas Is Too Damn Cheap
Justin Sandefur
February 10, 2018
Fuel subsidies are bad for the planet, expensive, and often regressive. With new, high-frequency price data researchers explore why they’re also so hard to kill.
Blog Post
Why Forests? Why Now? New Developments for the New Year
Frances Seymour
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Jonah Busch
January 12, 2018
Just over a year ago, we released our book Why Forests? Why Now? The Science, Economics, and Politics of Tropical Forests and Climate Change. To ensure the widest possible distribution, we are now delighted to make the full book available online for free.
Blog Post
Looking Forward: Development in 2018 – CGD Podcast
Rajesh Mirchandani
December 14, 2017
What's going to happen in the world of development in 2018? Will we finally understand how to deal equitably with refugees and migrants? Or how technological progress can work for developing countries? Or what the impact of year two of the Trump Administration will be? Today’s podcast, our...
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Looking Forward: Development in 2018
December 12, 2017
What's going to happen in the world of development in 2018? Will we finally understand how to deal equitably with refugees and migrants? Or how technological progress can work for developing countries? Or what the impact of year two of the Trump Administration will be? Today’s podcast, our...
POLICY PAPERS
Assessing “Leverage” in the Climate Investment Funds
Michele de Nevers
September 19, 2017
Blog Post
Results-Based Payments to Reduce Deforestation
Frances Seymour
August 03, 2017
The 2015 Paris agreement incorporates a framework of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (Redd+). Here are three reasons why Redd+ is a valuable tool in the fight against climate change, and responses to three common criticisms of the framework that no longer hold up.