Frances Seymour is a senior fellow at the Center
for Global Development and a senior adviser to the David and Lucile
Packard Foundation. In 2014 France named her Officer of the Order
of Agricultural Merit.
Jonah Busch is a research fellow at the Center for
Global Development. He is the lead developer of the OSIRIS suite of
open-source software tools for mapping the benefits and costs of
alternative policy decisions for reducing emissions from
deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+).
With forewords by . . . Alec Baldwin, Actor and international
advocate for forests and indigenous peoples
"International cooperation to protect forests is urgent,
affordable, and feasible. . . . Why Forests? Why Now? should be
mandatory reading for people who already care deeply about tropical
forests, as well as for those who remain not yet convinced."- Lord
Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government,
London School of Economics and President of the British
Academy;
“Seymour and Busch make a compelling argument that rich countries
should reward developing countries for their success in slowing
deforestation. . . . It is a clear and sound application of the
Cash-on-Delivery’ approach to international cooperation promoted
by . . . the Center for Global Development.”
Praise for Why Forests? Why Now?
“Anyone who cares about climate change or sustainable development
should read this book.”- Erik Solheim, Executive Director, UN
Environment Programme; former Chair OECD Development Assistance
Committee;
“Seymour and Busch show how international support for efforts to
stop deforestation can advance transparency and accountability,
resulting in a triple win for sustainable development, climate
stability, and good governance.”- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former
Minister of Finance, Nigeria;
Why Forests? Why Now? provides a welcome source of optimism that
deforestation can be tackled through complementary public and
private sector action.”- Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever;
“Seymour and Busch highlight an important achievement of global
climate negotiationsagreement on cooperation to reduce tropical
deforestationand suggest an effective path for the realization of
this goal.”- Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary, UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change
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