Jeff Horowitz is the founder of environmental advocacy group Avoided Deforestation Partners. His main area of interest is energy policy and the creation of a carbon credits market for forest conservation..
The policy, called REDD, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, is a mechanism that would compensate tropical countries for safeguarding their forests.. REDD provided the basis for the tropical forest provisions in the American Clean Energy and Security Act that passed the United States House of Representatives in 2009. The U.S. Senate's version of energy legislation did not include such provisions upon introduction in the Spring of 2010.
In May of 2009, groups including the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Duke Energy and American Electric Power signed the "Tropical Forest and Climate Unity Agreement", a set of 14 specific principles endorsing market and non-market mechanisms to protect tropical forests as part of U.S. climate policy. The agreement was drafted and coordinated by Horowitz
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