Speaker Series

How Can the Voluntary Carbon Market Make a Meaningful Contribution to Protecting Tropical Forests?

January 19 - April 27, 2023

This series is hosted by the Yale Applied Science Synthesis ProgramYale Center for Business and the Environment,  and The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment. Facilitated by Brad Gentry (Yale/CBEY), Frances Seymour (WRI), Luke Sanford (Yale), Sara Kuebbing (Yale/YASSP), and Peter Boyd (Yale/CBEY).

The series features a wide range of experts from perspectives including tropical country governments, Indigenous peoples, buyers, standard setters, and project developers. In focusing on the issues facing tropical forest carbon crediting, the series seeks to explore the following questions: Why are tropical forest carbon credits different? Why is a distinction made between “project” and “jurisdictional” credits? How do the different parties see risks and opportunities? How does the experience in the voluntary carbon market relate to international or domestic compliance markets?

The series builds on the Fall 2022 YFF Speaker Series on “What Makes a High-Quality Forest Carbon Credit?” 

All Series Events

Date
Speaker
Organization
Theme
Resources
Date
1/19/23
Speaker Frances Seymour
Organization
World Resources Institute
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Date
1/26/23
Speaker Paulo Moutinho
Organization
Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM)
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Date
2/2/23
Organization
Forestry Commission (FC) of Ghana
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Date
2/9/23
Speaker Sean Frisby
Organization
Emergent
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Date
2/16/23
Organization
Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA) / DRIS
Resources
Date
2/23/23
Speaker Jessica Orrego
Organization
Mercuria
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Date
3/2/23
Organization
Sayari Earth
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Date
3/30/23
Organization
Conservation International / Wildlife Conservation Society
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Date
4/6/23
Organization
Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force
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Date
4/20/23
Organization
Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM)
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Date
4/27/23
Organization
Coalition for Rainforest Nations / Emergent / Carbon Tanzania
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