William Sunderlin to visit LEC

William Sunderlin, a former colleague at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and a leading researcher on environmental governance, will be visiting LEC on Dec. 6th.

Is REDD+ well prepared to achieve its global goals? Some insights from six years of field research in the tropics.

William Sunderlin

12-1pm, Dec. 6th, 2016. LEC3 Training Rooms

Underway for a decade, REDD+ (which stands for “Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation”) has been viewed as a promising approach not just for climate change mitigation, but also for protecting and improving livelihoods, equity, tenure rights, and biodiversity in tropical forests. When it began, the intended core mechanism of REDD+ was a system of rewards for people who protect and enhance forests in a verifiable way. The results of six years of field research in six countries (Brazil, Peru, Cameroon, Tanzania, Indonesia, Vietnam) give insights on how REDD+ has evolved and its potential to achieve its goals.

William Sunderlin was a scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Bogor, Indonesia, from 1994-2006 and 2009 to 2016. From 2006 to 2009, he was a researcher at the Rights and Resources Initiative in Washington DC. He is currently an independent consultant based in rural New York State in the US.