The Amazon rainforest, the world's largest tropical rainforest and an important constituent of the global biosphere …, continues degrading by rapid deforestation, which is expected to continue despite policies to prevent it. Current international … funding to protect the Amazon rainforest focuses on benefits from reduced carbon emissions. This paper examines an additional …

Environmental conditional cash transfers, or "payments for ecosystem services" are a centerpiece of global efforts to … impacts of Mexico's national payments for ecosystem services program, which provides five years of payments to landowners in … deforestation (by 29 percent compared to controls), with effects being larger for those that have been in the program the longest …