About Us
Avoided Deforestation Partners is a think tank founded by leaders in carbon policy, finance, forestry, and conservation in May 2007 to support international efforts to halt tropical deforestation. We promote the adoption of a policy framework that creates robust and efficient mechanisms that motivate investments to avoid further deforestation. Avoided Deforestation Partners establishes a platform for research and debate. By stimulating discussion, we seek to develop, facilitate and test policy solutions that endorse practical policy concepts that will trigger investments into projects that stop deforestation. We strive to achieve these goals by:
- Connecting the public, private and social sectors by acting as a network for current information about the science and thinking underpinning proposed AD policies.
- Catalyzing new thinking about policies to address deforestation, including commissioning research and organizing workshops on the topic.
- Engaging in policy forums that seek the best way to ensure the involvement of local, regional, national, and international players from all sectors of society to reduce deforestation and land degradation.
- Publicizing the issue of deforestation policy and the global carbon market through hosting events, articles in the mainstream press and appearances at conferences.
- Connecting people around the world who are involved in and care about reducing the deforestation of the world's tropical forests.