Speaker Series

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

January 19 - April 27, 2023

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?” You can catch up on recorded lectures from the Fall Series here.

Date Speaker Organization Theme

Webinar (recording and slides)

January 19

Frances Seymour - Distinguished Senior Fellow

World Resources Institute (WRI)

Overview of Current Debates in Carbon Markets, Why Forest Carbon Credits Might be Different, Why Tropical Forest Carbon Credits Might be Different

Recording

Slides                        

January 26

Paulo Moutinho - Senior Scientist

Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) History of International Cooperation on Tropical Forest Conservation with Emphasis on the History of REDD+

Recording

Slides

February 2 Roselyn Fosuah Adjei - Director, Climate Change and National REDD+ Coordinator

Forestry Commission of Ghana

REDD + Crediting from the Perspective of Supplier Countries

Recording

Slides       

February 9 Sean Frisby - Managing Director Emergent

REDD+ Crediting from the Perspective of Buyer Countries and Corporations

Recording

Slides

February 16

Juan Carlos Jintiach - Coordinator of International Economic Cooperation and Autonomous Indigenous Development

Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA)

REDD+ Crediting from the Perspective of Indigenous Peoples

Recording

Slides

  Renato Rios - Economist DRIS  

February 23

Jessica Orrego - Director of Natural Climate Solutions Mercuria A Traders Perspective on REDD+ Crediting

Recording

Slides

         

March 2

Hassan Sachedina - Founder and Former CEO

BioCarbon Partners and Sayari Earth REDD+ Crediting from the Perspective of Project Developers

Recording

Slides

March 9 Mary Grady - Executive Director Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART), Winrock International Jurisdictional-Scale Crediting for REDD+: An Architecture to Ensure Social and Environmental Integrity

Recording

Slides

March 30 Jason Funk - Director of REDD+ Strategy, Center for Natural Climate Solutions Conservation International
 
Addressing High Forest Low Deforestation (HFLD) Jurisdictions

Recording

Slides

  Stephanie Wang - Associate Director Wildlife Conservation Society    
April 6

William Boyd - Project Lead

Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force

Forest Carbon Credits in Sub-national Jurisdictions: Experience from the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force

Recording

Slides

  Jason Gray - Project Director Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force    
April 13 Molly Peters-Stanley - Negotiator U.S. Department of State Forest Carbon Credits in Compliance Markets: experience from Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA)

Recording

April 20 Daniel Ortega Pacheco - ICVCM Expert Panel Co-Chair Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) REDD+ in Global Carbon Market Initiatives: Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM)

Recording

April 27 (11:30 am - 12:30 pm)

Panel Discussion:

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Building Buy-Side Confidence by Finding Common Ground

Recording

  Emilio Sempris  Regional Director for Latin America and Caribbean, Coalition for Rainforest Nations    
  Rocio Sanz Cortes  Head of Origination, Emergent     
  Jo Anderson Director Finance and Sales, Carbon Tanzania     
 

All Series Events

Date
Speaker
Organization
Theme
Resources
Date
1/19/23
Speaker Frances Seymour
Organization
World Resources Institute
Resources Watch Event Video
Date
1/26/23
Speaker Paulo Moutinho
Organization
Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM)
Resources Watch Event Video
Date
2/2/23
Organization
Forestry Commission (FC) of Ghana
Resources Watch Event Video
Date
2/9/23
Speaker Sean Frisby
Organization
Emergent
Resources Watch Event Video
Date
2/23/23
Speaker Jessica Orrego
Organization
Mercuria
Resources Watch Event Video
Date
3/2/23
Organization
Sayari Earth
Resources Watch Event Video
Date
3/30/23
Organization
Conservation International / Wildlife Conservation Society
Resources Watch Event Video
Date
4/6/23
Organization
Resources Watch Event Video