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Helping Reassess China’s National Forest Policy
In 1998, OED initiated a review of the World Bank’s 1991 Forest Strategy, in order to assess its impact on World Bank lending and whether the strategy remained relevant. The 1991 Strategy had pursued a green agenda, by restricting the Bank from supporting production activities which entailed the logging of tropical moist forests. It had […]
Critical Choices in REDD Architecture:Implications for Evaluation
Current debates are tending towards the adoption of a cap & trade system despite all its inherent risks.
Carbon Sequestration from Avoided Deforestation
Uma Lele Former Senior Advisor, Independent Evaluation Group, The World Bank Special Advisor, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, India November 13, 2009
Changing Roles of Forests and their Cross- Sectorial Linkages in the Course of Economic Development
This is one of three background papers commissioned by the United Nations Forum for Forests. Background paper 1: Focuses on economic contributions of forests, by Agrawal, Shepherd and Cashore; Background Paper 2: Forests and cross-sectorial linkages, by Lele, Karsenty, Benson, Fétiveau, Agarwal and Goswami; and Background paper 3: The role of forests in a future […]
Key issues in Evaluating Carbon Sequestration from Avoided Deforestation
Evaluating initiatives such as REDD include many of the old challenges evaluators have confronted but it also include new challenges.
Evaluation Report: Western China Forests and Grasslands Task Force 2000-2002
China Council for International Cooperation On Environment and Development (CCICED) Western China Forests and Grasslands Task force 2000-2002.
