Esteve Corbera

Esteve Corbera is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB, Spain). His research focuses on the governance of land-use management options for climate mitigation across scales, including analyses of climate-policy and biodiversity conservation related instruments, such as Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) and carbon offset projects, and more recently also of large-scale agriculture for biofuels production. Most of his fieldwork has been conducted in Mexico, and more recently in Tanzania and Argentina. His research has been published in over 50 peer-reviewed scientific outlets and he was both a lead and a co-author in the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Esteve co-leads the Laboratory for the Analysis of Socio-Ecological Systems on Globalised World (LASEG) at ICTA-UAB.