Humanity's impact on the environment is increasing, as are strategies to conserve
biodiversity, but a lack of understanding about how interventions affect ecological and …

The study of ecosystem services enables the understanding of the services that ecosystems
provide at the landscape level by explaining the relationship between natural capital …

Many major corporations and countries have made commitments to purchase or produce
only “sustainable” palm oil, a commodity responsible for substantial tropical forest loss …

The awareness of the need for robust impact evaluations in conservation is growing and
statistical matching techniques are increasingly being used to assess the impacts of …

Protected areas (PAs) and payments for ecosystem services (PES) are the top two
mechanisms available for countries to achieve international REDD agreements, yet there …

The protection of forests is crucial to providing important ecosystem services, such as
supplying clean air and water, safeguarding critical habitats for biodiversity, and reducing …

Carbon offsets are widely promoted as a strategy to lower the cost of emission reductions,
but recent findings suggest that offsets may not causally reduce emissions by the amount …

This article updates our previous comprehensive meta-analysis of what drives and stops
deforestation (Busch and Ferretti-Gallon). By including six additional years of research, this …

Payment for ecosystem services (PES) are economic incentives intended to generate
conservation benefits, principally on private properties. The global portfolio of PES programs …

Abstract Meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals requires reconciling development
with biodiversity conservation. Governments and lenders increasingly call for major …