A working paper submitted by Stefanie Engel and Charles Palmer from the Institute of
Environmental Decisions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. This paper was
written on the basis of findings from a book that the authors recently co-edited, entitled:
'Avoided deforestation: Prospects for mitigating climate change'.
“Painting the forest REDD?” Prospects for mitigating climate change through reducing
emissions from deforestation and degradation