Frances Seymour
@FrancesJSeymour
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Distinguished Senior Fellow @WorldResources. Lead author of 2016 book, Why Forests? Why Now? Tweets are my own views.
Washington, DC
Joined October 2013
Vote for forests by July 30! The inspired design by our @Cities4Forests colleagues is a finalist in the #ReimaginingBrooklynBridge contest. Their proposal will source timber from a community #forestry initiative in Guatemala. Watch the video and vote at
brooklynbridgeforest.com
Preserve a Landmark. Protect a Rainforest. Cultivate a Global Partnership. The much-loved wooden boardwalk of the historic Brooklyn Bridge is approaching its 35-year replacement cycle. The traditio...
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Reducing Tropical Deforestation: Belatedly sharing link to full text of my Perspective with Nancy Harris in Science:
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Forests in the IPCC Special Report on Land Use: 7 Things to Know -- and what we should do about it. New blog: #SRCCL #ClimateChange #Forests.
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We're still losing. tropical primary forests, that is -- an area the size of Belgium last year. Visualize this loss on @globalforests today, and think about the heartbreaking impacts of such loss in real places around the world. #treecoverloss
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A Long Bet on the Future of Indonesia's Forests: new @Devex article on the @katinganmentaya REDD+ project in Central Kalimantan:
devex.shorthandstories.com
A highly lauded, market-based forest conservation project in the peatlands of southern Borneo is doing everything right — except making money.
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Indigenous peoples are the best stewards of tropical forests: 1.5-minute radio story airing today thanks to @CC_Yale
yaleclimateconnections.org
One study found that granting forest property rights to indigenous inhabitants significantly reduced logging.
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Indonesia reduces #deforestation; Norway to pay up. Breaking my Twitter hiatus to share my @WRI blog on this good news for REDD+:
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Check out the nine Working Papers prepared as backgrounders for the #OsloForestForum, taking stock on the state of play on the forests and climate agenda:
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. and for an analysis of the mostly-bad-news contained in the #2017TreeForestLoss numbers, see this blog by my awesome colleagues Mikaela Weisse and @elizabethdgold:
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The runaway train of deforestation: we've got a brick on the accelerator, and a feather on the brake. New blog on #2017TreeForestLoss:
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Looking forward to today's program at the #OsloForestForum. Check it out on the livestreams. We have an extraordinary assembly of speakers and participants gathered for the discussions!
Tune in to our #OsloForestForum #LiveStream 27-28 June. For overview of sessions, livestreams and panelists, visit First session starts at 9AM CEST Wednesday. #ParisAgreement #LeadOnClimate #NICFi @Climateforest
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Spent the last 3 days learning a ton about @Intact_Forests at an amazing conference in Oxford: Their unappreciated value for climate & devt; how to define and monitor; threats; local political complexities; & global policy opportunities. #IF21.
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.@RickScobey -- Many thanks! Let's all strive for #OptimalImpatience in our efforts to reduce #deforestation: Not so impatient that we cut corners on safeguards, but not so patient that we allow laggards to drag their feet.
Love it - @FrancesJSeymour urges “optimal impatience” to accelerate global deforestation commitments at #tfa2020GA
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.@StephenDonofrio -- Thanks for the shout-out, and to colleagues @cmucreatelab for making me look good in Accra last week @tfa2020 General Assembly. View animated Deforestation Story here:
.@FrancesJSeymour just gave a rock star keynote @tfa2020 with the power of #opendata and #maps to visualize forest loss #EarthTime dev’d by @wef @CarnegieMellon #TFA2020GA #TFA2020 #deforestation #sustainability #ghana #accra #wef.
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". economists [who think of climate change as an energy issue] need to read Seymour and Busch's Why Forests? Why Now?. " Book review by @DKaimowitz in Asia Pacific Economic Literature
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How forests are like Cinderella, with global climate action as Prince Charming. New blog @WorldResources just in time for #EarthDay:
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Why should city-dwellers care about urban, nearby, and faraway forests? New blog celebrating International Day of Forests' theme of Forests and Sustainable Cities:
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Smiles all around today in Jakarta as the International Peat Mapping Team was announced as the winner of the $1 million Indonesian Peat Prize:
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The Indonesian Peat Prize will be awarded Friday!
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Pope’s message to Amazonia inspires hope, but will it bring action? via @Mongabay.
news.mongabay.com
Visit by Pope Francis to Peru brought needed attention to Amazon deforestation and indigenous suffering due to illegal mining, but will the pontiff’s words be a game changer?
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