Faculty Associate Rachael Garrett Co-Authors Paper on Effectiveness of Companies’ Initiatives to Reduce Deforestation

Rachael Garrett, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored a paper on the effectiveness of companies’ supply-chain initiatives aimed at reducing deforestation. The paper, titled “The role of supply-chain initiatives in reducing deforestation,” was published in Nature Climate Change.

The authors explore the effectiveness and shortcomings of current private sector commitments aimed at reducing global deforestation, and thereby helping to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss. They identify several areas in which these pledges fall short, including a lack of transparency and traceability, inconsistent definitions and criteria, and selective adoption. Ultimately, they conclude that public-private policy mixes will need to better complement and reinforce each other in order to increase the effectiveness of these supply-chain initiatives.

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