Action needed to make carbon offsets from forest conservation work for climate change mitigation

Carbon offsets from voluntary avoided-deforestation projects are generated on the basis of performance in relation to ex ante deforestation baselines. We examined the effects of 26 such project sites in six countries on three continents using synthetic control methods for causal inference. We found...

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Main Authors: West, T.A.P., Wunder, Sven, Sills, E.O., Börner, J., Rifai, S.W., Neidermeier, A.N., Kontoleon, A.
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2023
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135558

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