So there is this idea that the rich could pay poor/”developing” countries not to chop down their forests. That would be good, insofar as we might not pave and then cook the planet.
Sadly, there are devils in the detail. Like the fact that the rich have deep pockets and short arms.
So anyway, this Wednesday, from 4.30 to 6pm there’s a public event as part of the development@manchester seminar series
Topic: “Will REDD work for people? Learning from the distributional implications of Payments for Ecosystem Services”
Speaker: Dr Esteve Corbera Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona
Chair: Dan Brockington
Lecture Theatre G6
Humanities Bridgeford Street
Manchester
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That is a pity, at lecture hall C1, George Begg Builiding, UofM at 17:00hrs.
This idea must be at least 20 years old! The devil is indeed in the detail, also in that some developing countries don’t seem to have a lot of control over what happens in their forests (for that matter, also some relatively developed ones like Greece).