author keywords: impact evaluation; synthetic control; payment for environmental services; carbon credit; deforestation

MeSH headings : Brazil; Carbon; Climate Change; Conservation of Natural Resources; Forests; Greenhouse Gases

TL;DR: It is found that the crediting baselines established ex-ante by voluntary REDD+ projects in the Brazilian Amazon to counterfactuals constructed ex-post based on the quasi-experimental synthetic control method assume consistently higher deforestation thancounterfactual forest loss in synthetic control sites. (via Semantic Scholar)