The online workshop on Public Policy and Deforestation on 24-25 June 2021 organised by Professor Sarmistha Pal of Surrey Business School brings together researchers from around the world. The papers presented at the workshop will focus on the impact of alternative policies to limit deforestation with a view to understand their relative efficacies and also to learn about their financing, implementation and management.

Workshop Programme

24 June 2021 (London time, GMT+1)

3 pm: Welcome message

3.10 pm: Icebreaker session

3.30 pm: Keynote speech by Alex Pfaff (Duke University): Learning about Deforestation Policy Impacts: Implications for better planning and management

4.30 pm: Juliano Assuncao, Clarissa Gandour, Romero Rocha (CPI/PUC-Rio) : DETERring Deforestation in the Amazon: Environmental Monitoring and Law Enforcement

5.30 pm: Wanyi Li, Itai Ashlagi, Irene Lo (Stanford University): Optimal contracts for payments for ecosystem services

6.30 pm: Policy panel 1 and discussion: Sven Wunder (European Forest Institute & CIFOR)

7.00 pm: END of the day

25 June 2021 (London time, GMT+1)

3.00 pm: Katrina Mullan (University of Montana), Jill Caviglia-Harris (Salisbury University), Thais Santiago (University of Montana), Erin Sills (North Carolina State University) and Thales West (VU Amsterdam). ‘Disentangling the Sources of the Brazilian Miracle: The Impacts of Overlapping Policies on Deforestation in the Amazon’

4.00 pm: Santiago Saavedra Pineda (Universidad del Rosario, Columbia) Do COVID-19 lockdowns affect deforestation? A cross-country study

5.00 pm: Juliano Assuncao, Clarissa Gandour and Souza Rodrigues (CPI/PUC-Rio/Toronto) The Forest Awakens: Amazon Regeneration and Policy Spillover

6.00: Randall A. Bluffstone (Portland State University), E. Somanathan (Indian Statistical Institute), Prakash Jha (CMCC, Bologna), Harisharan Luintel (Portland State University), Rajesh Bista (UNC, Chapel Hill), Michael Toman (World Bank), Naya Paudel (Forest Action, Nepal), Bhim Adhikari (IDRC, Canada). ‘REDD+ and Forest Collective Action: Evidence from Nepal’

7.00 pm: Policy panel 2 and discussion – Diana Weinhold (LSE)

7.30 pm: Conclusion

END of the workshop

For further details, please contact Professor Sarmistha Pal (s.pal@surrey.ac.uk) or Yifei Bi (y.bi@surrey.ac.uk)