A novel deforestation risk and baseline allocation model for the next generation of nested REDD+ projects.

Nature-based solutions that use a counterfactual scenario depend heavily on the methodology used to determine the business as usual (BAU) case, i.e., the "baseline.

Enhancing conservation, ecosystem services, and local livelihoods through a wildlife premium mechanism.

We propose the wildlife premium mechanism as an innovation to conserve endangered large vertebrates. The performance-based payment scheme would allow stakeholders in lower-income countries to generate revenue by recovering and maintaining threatened fauna that can also serve as umbrella species (i.e.