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Financial forces in the landscape: Can fiscal and trade policies reduce deforestation?

Watch this high-level dialogue from the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2014, in Lima, Peru, during COP20. Subsidies, taxes, tariffs and other fiscal and trade policy instruments have major direct and indirect effects on land use. This panel discusses the ways in which such economic instruments are currently shaping forests and agriculture.Moderator:Tim Christophersen Senior Programme Officer Forests and Climate ChangeUNEP Speakers:Maria Cristina Morales PalareaMinister of EnvironmentParaguaySimon BuckleHead of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Water DivisionOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Tefera Mengistu Advisor Ministry of Environment and Forestry, EthiopiaPavan SukhdevCEO, Green Initiatives for a Smart TomorrowUNEP Goodwill Ambassador Sunday, 7 December 2014Global Landscapes Forum, Lima, Peru#COP20GLF #ThinkLandscapeFor more information go to: www.landscapes.org

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