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2011 Schlamadinger Prize Winner Announced
November 2011
Climate Policy, with support from TerraCarbon, Joanneum Research, and Climate Strategies, has announced the winner of the 2011 Schlamadinger Prize.
Financing REDD in developing countries: a supply and demand analysis
by Jordan Isenberg and Catherine Potvin
The panel of judges commented:
This paper is particularly valuable because it articulates how fund and market based systems for REDD could co-exist, not just within the context of a transition strategy, but as different mitigation approaches for developed and developing countries. The paper provides out-of-the-box thinking and analogies for REDD financing, for example, looking at the role of ODA funding and public policy in the expansion of funding in the global health sector and how it might inform REDD financing.
The authors of the winning paper said:
The research for this paper was initiated in 2008, at a time when markets were often seen as the only possible financing option for REDD+. Our work was stimulated by the need of developing countries, especially Panama, to position themselves vis-a`-vis REDD+ financing. We thought that a two-track funding strategy for REDD+ would allow the negotiations to move forward. We hope that our research can help inform mitigation policy, making it feasible to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.
The Schlamadinger Prize was created in memory of Dr. Bernhard Schlamadinger, co-founder of TerraCarbon LLC and world renowned forestry and climate change expert. The prize is awarded for the best climate policy paper in the field of forestry, land use, or bioenergy that is accepted for publication in the Climate Policy journal.
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2011 Schlamadinger Prize Announcement
