Toby Gardner

Apr 3, 2024 | sei.org | Toby Gardner

Skip navigation Key messages Key factors facilitating and hindering policy convergence were investigated. Unlikely that China will implement any trade policies based on zero-deforestation.

Jan 26, 2024 | sei.org | Toby Gardner

Skip navigation The tropical forest carbon sink is known to be drought sensitive, but it is unclear which forests are the most vulnerable to extreme events. Forests with hotter and drier baseline conditions may be protected by prior adaptation, or more vulnerable because they operate closer to physiological limits.

Jun 12, 2023 | sei.org | Chris West |Jonathan Green |Simon L Croft |Toby Gardner

“Offshore impacts” are the environmental consequences of commodity production and trade in places other than where the commodities are consumed. Consideration of such impacts in policy frameworks has emerged only recently. Frameworks to monitor overseas environmental impacts are critical to mitigating climate change and biodiversity loss but remain fragmented and underused. Key barriers relate to the coherence of these frameworks and governments’ capacity to facilitate their uptake.