Redeeming REDD

Notes

Introduction

1   See IEG (2012) for a reasonably frank internal review of the The World Bank’s REDD programming.

2   These refer to biodiversity conservation and development NGOs.

3   See http://sonencapital.com/news-events.php for these illustrative figures.

4   See Paula Goldman’s Stanford Social Innovation Review blog at http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/the_distortion_risk_in_impact_investing.

1    Grounds for pessimism and optimism

1   See http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2011/.

2   Lauriston Sharpe’s 1952 classic “Steel axes for stone age Australians” appropriately frames the type of situation we are witnessing at the interface between those offering payment schemes over the coming decades for sustained avoidance of deforestation, ...