Faculty Seminar Series:
Two Decades of Policy Narratives About Forests and Climate
David Kaimowitz
Senior Advisor, Climate and Land Use Alliance
February 11, 2020
12 – 1 pm, Caseroom #2916
Light lunch for the first 60 attendees
Policy narratives about tropical forests and climate change have changed substantially over the last twenty years. This presentation looks at how the conventional wisdom about the problems, their solutions, the theories of change, and expectations about outcomes have evolved over that period. It focuses on four moments: prior to REDD+, when REDD+ was at its peak, the present, and emerging trends.
David Kaimowitz is a Senior Advisor to the Climate and Land Use Alliance (CLUA). Prior to that he was global Director of Natural Resources and Climate Change at the Ford Foundation and Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research.
His research focuses on policies affecting forests, with emphasis on causes of deforestation, land and forest tenure, Indigenous and community forest management, decentralization, and the effects of land use change on climate. David has also held professional positions at the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA), the International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR), and the Nicaraguan Ministry of Agricultural Development and Agrarian Reform (MIDINRA).
He has a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has written or co-written seven books and published more than 100 scientific publications.