Daniel Curtis Nepstad

Daniel Nepstad, PhD (Yale) is a forest ecologist and policy expert. He has studied the Amazon Basin for 29 years, including forest responses to climate change, land use, and REDD. Previously, he was Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center, Chief Program Officer for Environment at the Moore Foundation, and Lecturer at Yale. He is a member of California’s REDD Offset Working group (ROW), the Boards of Alianca da Terra and IPAM (which he co-founded) and Forest Trends, and was a Board member of the RTRS. He is a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, Working Group 2, AR5) and has published more than 140 scientific articles and 3 books.

Daniel Curtis Nepstad is Thematic Moderator for Stream D: Thematic Stream on Jurisdictional Approaches and will be moderating Parallel D2 Jurisdictional approaches: Linking supply chains, domestic policies and finance.