![]() ![]() – Jeff Conant, Senior International Forests Program Director, Friends of the Earth United States Following is a recent article from the site REDD Monitor that raises some of the key concerns. Over the next six weeks, California decision-makers will be reviewing one such payment for ecosystem services policy - a long-talked about approach that will monetize tropical forests as a sink for California’s climate emissions. Within environmental advocacy circles, a debate rages about the relative merits of radically powering down through measures like keeping fossil fuels in the ground and drastically curbing demand for deforestation-driving commodities like palm oil, versus solutions that create market incentives such as “payments for ecosystem services.”Īs was made clear during the Governor’s Climate Action Summit in September, California is, by-and-large, choosing the latter route. ![]() ![]() But not all climate solutions are created equal. With the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change special report this week that explores the impacts of 1.5☌ global warming, the heat is on to continue doing everything we can to address the climate crisis. ![]()
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