Adam Schwarz's research while affiliated with McKinsey and other places

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Indonesia has responded to worldwide concern about climate change by committing to significant carbon emissions reductions over the next decade. Achievement of this goal will face significant practical obstacles, and the opportunity cost of avoided deforestation is considerable. In our second Policy Dialogue, two climate change experts present cont...

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... For the company, establishing oil palm plantation in forested land is indeed favored (Lee et al. 2014b). Since the designated land is still forested, the clearance of trees has been a means for companies to accrue the windfall profits from conversion timber (Casson 2000;Casson et al. 2007;Schwarz 2010;Obidzinski et al. 2013). It is also the way of the holders to generate up-front capital for running their business. ...