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Jonah Busch, Conservation International

Ph.D.
Climate and Forest Economist
Conservation International
2011 Crystal Drive, Suite 500
Arlington, VA 22202, USA
P.: +1-703-341-2582
Email: jbusch@conservation.org
URL: http://www.conservation.org/Pages/default.aspx

Dr. Jonah Busch is a climate and forest economist at Conservation International. He is the author of scientific publications on the finance, scope, equity, reference level design and biodiversity co-benefits of an international mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). As a leading researcher in the five-institution Collaborative Modeling Initiative on REDD+ Economics, Busch developed the OSIRIS model—a free, open source spreadsheet tool to compare country-by-country climate, forest and revenue impacts of alternative international REDD+ mechanism designs. In collaboration with the Government of Indonesia, the OSIRIS model is currently being extended to estimate and map impacts of alternative international and national REDD+ mechanism designs in Indonesia, Madagascar and Peru. Busch has advised on REDD+ for Conservation International, the Global Environment Facility, the Government of Norway, and the President of Guyana.

Busch served in the Peace Corps (Burkina Faso, 00-02) as a high school math teacher. He speaks French and Mooré fluently and is conversational in Spanish. He has travel experience in more than fifty countries. Busch holds a Ph.D. in Economics and Environmental Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.