Hosted by the Yale Applied Science Synthesis Program, Yale 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 |
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 |
Slides |
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| January 26 | Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) | History of International Cooperation on Tropical Forest Conservation with Emphasis on the History of REDD+ | ||
| February 2 | Roselyn Fosuah Adjei - Director, Climate Change and National REDD+ Coordinator |
Forestry Commission of Ghana |
REDD + Crediting from the Perspective of Supplier Countries | |
| February 9 | Sean Frisby - Managing Director | Emergent |
REDD+ Crediting from the Perspective of Buyer Countries and Corporations |
Slides |
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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 | |||
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February 23 |
Jessica Orrego - Director of Natural Climate Solutions | Mercuria | A Traders Perspective on REDD+ Crediting | |
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March 2 |
BioCarbon Partners and Sayari Earth | REDD+ Crediting from the Perspective of Project Developers |
Slides |
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| 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 |
Slides |
| March 30 | Jason Funk - Director of REDD+ Strategy, Center for Natural Climate Solutions | Conservation International |
Addressing High Forest Low Deforestation (HFLD) Jurisdictions | |
| 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 |
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) | |
| 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) | |
| April 27 (11:30 am - 12:30 pm) |
Panel Discussion: |
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Building Buy-Side Confidence by Finding Common Ground | ||
| 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 |
