Anil Madhavapeddy
Professor of Planetary Computing
/ Papers / PACT Tropical Moist Forest Accreditation Methodology v2.1
Working paper at Cambridge Open Engage, Aug 2024
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Abstract. This document describes the methodology developed by the Cambridge Center for Carbon Credits for estimating the number of credits to be issued to an avoided deforestation project in the tropical moist forest biome.

Authors. Andrew Balmford, David A Coomes, Michael Dales, Patrick Ferris, James Hartup, Sadiq Jaffer, Srinivasan Keshav, Miranda Lam, Anil Madhavapeddy, Robin Message, E.-Ping Rau, Thomas Swinfield, Charlotte Wheeler and Abby Williams

See Also. This publication was part of my Trusted Carbon Credits project.

Previous Revisions. There are also earlier revisions of this paper available below. Please cite only the latest version of the paper above where possible.

(Older v2) PACT Tropical Moist Forest Accreditation Methodology v2.0
Andrew Balmford, David A Coomes, Michael Dales, Patrick Ferris, James Hartup, Sadiq Jaffer, Srinivasan Keshav, Miranda Lam, Anil Madhavapeddy, Robin Message, E.-Ping Rau, Thomas Swinfield and Charlotte Wheeler
Working paper at Cambridge Open Engage, Dec 2023
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(Older v1) PACT Tropical Moist Forest Accreditation Methodology
Andrew Balmford, David A Coomes, James Hartup, Sadiq Jaffer, Srinivasan Keshav, Miranda Lam, Anil Madhavapeddy, E.-Ping Rau, Thomas Swinfield and Charlotte Wheeler
Working paper at Cambridge Open Engage, Jun 2023
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News Updates

Sep 2024. «» Discuss the NbS risks paper.
Aug 2024. «» Discussion on the nature-based credits article / «» Tropical Moist Forest v2.1 specification released.
Dec 2023. «» Tropical Moist Forest v2.0 specification.
Jun 2023. «» Published Tropical Moist Forest v1.0 specification.
Mar 2023. «» Discussion with Mantle Labs about carbon credits.
Nov 2022. «» Wednesday seminar on financing forests using carbon credits.
May 2022. «» Quoted in Vox article on carbon credits.
Sep 2021. «» Started maintaining (sporadically) a note on a forest preservation and restoration bibliography.