Sensitivity of estimates of the effectiveness of REDD+ projects to matching specifications and moving from pixels to polygons as the unit of analysis
Alejandro Guizar-Coutiño,
David Coomes,
Tom Swinfield
et al.
Abstract:There is a substantial interest in the potential of carbon credits generated by Reducing Emissions from tropical Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) and traded on the voluntary carbon market for generating the finance needed to slow forest loss. However, such credits have become marred in controversy. Recent global-scale analysis using a range of methods for estimating the counterfactual rate of deforestation ex post suggest that many REDD+ projects have overestimated their effectiveness at reducing deforest… Show more
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