Kemen Austin

Kemen Austin
Research Analyst, People & Ecosystems Program
kaustin@wri.org|+1 (202) 729-7605

Kemen Austin is a forest and climate research analyst in the People & Ecosystems Program. Her work primarily focuses on quantifying forest changes and associated carbon emissions in Indonesia and the Congo Basin.

Kemen holds an MA and a BSc in environmental science from Brown University where her research included measuring terrestrial carbon in the northeast United States and the evaluation of carbon offset projects in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Prior to joining WRI she worked with The Nature Conservancy to quantify forest carbon and carbon changes due to small holder agricultural production in the Adelbert Mountains of Papua New Guinea.

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Submitted on February 17, 2012
Today WRI releases a working paper that provides new information about Indonesia’s moratorium on new forest concessions. Our analysis concludes that the moratorium alone does not significantly contribute to Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emission reduction goal of 26 percent by 2020. However, the moratorium does support these goals in the long-term by “pausing” business-as-usual patterns to allow...

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Submitted on November 26, 2011
Though forests play an essential role in international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the development of systems to monitor deforestation and forest degradation has been slow. This is...