Designing a mechanism for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) that is effective, efficient and equitable requires quantitative economic analysis. The Open Source Impacts of REDD Incentives Spreadsheet (OSIRIS) is a free, transparent, accessible and open source decision support tool designed by the Collaborative Modeling Initiative on REDD Economics to support UNFCCC negotiations on REDD. OSIRIS enables a click-of-a-button comparison of global, regional and country-by-country emissions reduction, deforestation and revenue impacts of alternative approaches to providing positive economic incentives for REDD.
WHO WE ARE
Jonah Busch, Conservation International
Bernardo Strassburg, Center for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment
Andrea Cattaneo, Woods Hole Research Center
Ruben Lubowski, Environmental Defense Fund
Aaron Bruner, Conservation International
Dick Rice, Conservation International
Anna Creed, Terrestrial Carbon Group
Ralph Ashton, Terrestrial Carbon Group
Fred Boltz, Conservation International
Participating organizations in the Collaborative Modeling Initiative on REDD Economics include Conservation International, the Terrestrial Carbon Group, Environmental Defense Fund, Woods Hole Research Center and the Center for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment at the University of East Anglia.
Partners include the Prince's Rainforests Project, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the David and Lucil Packard Foundation, and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation.