Articles by Dan Nepstad

Sunset over the Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Mobilizing Amazon societies to reduce forest carbon emissions and unlock the carbon market (commentary)

by Dan Nepstad, Monica de los Rios, Ronaldo Seroa da Motta 13 March 2023

Brazil has an unprecedented opportunity to secure $10 billion dollars or more over the next four years to move the Amazon region towards an equitable, forest-maintaining economy. The very real…

Tropical forest conservation in the Bolsonaro era (commentary)

by Dan Nepstad, João Shimada, Oswaldo Carvalho Jr. 6 December 2018

Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s President-elect, represents a globally significant threat to the world’s biggest tropical forest conservation legacy and the biggest tropical forest. If he does what he says he will…

Rainforest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tropical deforestation: the need for a strategy adjustment (commentary)

by Dan Nepstad 8 March 2018

We are in the midst of the greatest global effort in history to end tropical deforestation, driven largely by the importance of tropical forests for tackling climate change. An exciting…