Key messages
- We assess the impacts of a REDD+ project that paid smallholders to reduce deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, during and after payments.
- We find that payments were effective at reducing deforestation, but only while they were ongoing.
- After payments had ended, deforestation resumed, but not at a rate that eliminated previous forest conservation outcomes.
- Deforestation reductions required payments, but the environmental gains lasted.
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TI - What happens after conservation payments stop? Key findings from REDD+ in Brazil
AU - Carrilho, C.D.
AU - Wunder, S.
AB - Key messages
We assess the impacts of a REDD+ project that paid smallholders to reduce deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, during and after payments.
We find that payments were effective at reducing deforestation, but only while they were ongoing.
After payments had ended, deforestation resumed, but not at a rate that eliminated previous forest conservation outcomes.
Deforestation reductions required payments, but the environmental gains lasted.
PY - 2023
PB - CIFOR-ICRAF
PP - Bogor, Indonesia and Nairobi, Kenya
UR - https://www.cifor-icraf.org/knowledge/publication/8803/
DO - https://doi.org/10.17528/cifor/008803
KW - climate change, conservation, deforestation, ecosystem services, mitigation, redd+
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%T What happens after conservation payments stop? Key findings from REDD+ in Brazil
%A Carrilho, C.D.
%A Wunder, S.
%D 2023
%I CIFOR-ICRAF
%C Bogor, Indonesia and Nairobi, Kenya
%U https://www.cifor-icraf.org/knowledge/publication/8803/
%R https://doi.org/10.17528/cifor/008803
%X Key messages
We assess the impacts of a REDD+ project that paid smallholders to reduce deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, during and after payments.
We find that payments were effective at reducing deforestation, but only while they were ongoing.
After payments had ended, deforestation resumed, but not at a rate that eliminated previous forest conservation outcomes.
Deforestation reductions required payments, but the environmental gains lasted.
%K climate change
%K conservation
%K deforestation
%K ecosystem services
%K mitigation
%K redd+
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CIFOR-ICRAF: Bogor, Indonesia and Nairobi, Kenya
Publication year
2023
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Language
English
Keywords
climate change, conservation, deforestation, ecosystem services, mitigation, redd+
Geographic
Brazil
