applied over the course of the coming century shows that although some deforestation is optimal in the near term, in the … absence of climate change regulation, the desirability of further deforestation is eliminated by mid-century. Although adverse … prices lead to significant deforestation and higher greenhouse gas emissions than in the baseline. Imposition of a global …

agricultural productivity can have such ambiguous effects on deforestation. We then examine the predictions of that model using …'s deforestation rate would have been almost twice as large between 1970 and 2000 without that increase in agricultural productivity …

variations for palm oil. Empirical results document increases of about 4% in deforestation in the year prior to local mayoral … elections on average. Additionally, palm oil plays a crucial role in driving deforestation dynamics. Deforestation rates …