2025 Learning Exchange Series: Leakage
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EmailWebinar three of the 2025 Learning Exchange Series is titled "Leakage." Panelists discuss research priorities to reduce forest carbon leakage.
Webinar Three: Leakage
Research Priorities to Reduce Forest Carbon Leakage
Speakers
Ethan Belair, Senior Forest Carbon Scientist, The Nature Conservancy
Ethan Belair is a Senior Forest Carbon Scientist on The Nature Conservancy’s Global Natural Climate Solutions Team, which conducts research quantifying and enabling the impacts of natural climate solutions, primarily in forests. His work focuses on measuring and modeling how forests respond to human interventions from local to global scales, and using that information to develop robust decision making and carbon accounting frameworks for NCS implementation. His work touches down in a variety of forested systems, from conservation land in Belize, to timber concessions in central Africa and Indonesia, to private non-industrial lands in the US.
Barbara Haya, Senior Fellow, Goldman School of Public Policy, Director, Berkeley Carbon Trading Project, University of California, Berkeley
Barbara Haya is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Environmental Public Policy (CEPP) where she directs the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to examining the outcomes and design of carbon trading and offsetting programs, and the limits to the effectiveness of carbon trading alone. The Project coordinates research and outreach to ensure its research results inform policy and program design.
Barbara holds a PhD from UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group. Her work has been featured in the Financial Times, Bloomberg News, the Guardian, and MIT Technology Review.
Brent Sohngen, Professor, Ohio State University
Brent Sohngen is a professor of environmental and resource economics in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics at The Ohio State University. Dr. Sohngen received his doctorate in environmental and resource economics from Yale University in 1996. He conducts research on the economics of land use change, the design of incentive mechanisms for water and carbon trading, carbon sequestration, and valuation of environmental resources. Dr. Sohngen developed a global forest and land use model that has been widely used to assess the implications of climate change on ecosystems and markets, and to assess the costs of carbon sequestration in forests. Dr. Sohngen has written or co-written over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles, and 60 monographs and book chapters. He co-authored sections of the 2001 and 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, and he co-authored the forestry chapter of the most recent U.S. National Climate Assessment Report. He teaches courses on “Food, Population and the Environment” and “Energy, the Environment, and the Economy”.
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