Reducing Deforestation in Commodity Supply Chains
This RFF First Wednesday Seminar focused on the opportunities for and challenges of reducing supply chain deforestation using private and regulatory strategies, potential synergies among these strategies, and linkages with Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+).
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Commercial agriculture and forestry are leading drivers of tropical deforestation. Unfortunately, shortages of political and institutional resources in developing countries often make it difficult to solve this problem using conventional regulatory tools such as land use zoning. Over the past two decades, a variety of private sector, market-driven approaches have become popular, including eco-certification, multi-stakeholder commodity roundtables, voluntary moratoria, public disclosure, and voluntary corporate commitments.
Featuring leading companies, nongovernmental organizations, and multi-stakeholder initiatives using and promoting these approaches, this RFF First Wednesday Seminar focused on the opportunities for and challenges of reducing supply chain deforestation using private and regulatory strategies, potential synergies among these strategies, and linkages with Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+).
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Participants
Crystal Davis
Stephen Donofrio
Christine Dragisic
Jeff Milder
Mark Murphy
Michael Wolosin
