Peter Umunay is a Senior Advisor on Forest and Climate Change at UNEP WCMC and a PhD scholar at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Peter has 10+ years of work experience with international organizations, academic institutions and governments. His work is mostly interdisciplinary interested in the impacts of human induced deforestation and forest degradation on forest carbon and biodiversity conservation, conservation and forest valuation, community-based natural forest management, improving forest governance, REDD+ and forest carbon account- ing, zero-deforestation in commodity supply chain and land use finance.