Grahame Applegate is a forestry specialist with over 40 years’ experience as a forest scientist, and manager involved tropical forest management, including community forestry and climate change in the tropics in Asia and the Pacific. Much of his recent work has been developing and implementing a large REDD+ project, community-based fire management, developing methodologies for estimating GHG emissions from various components of tropical peat swamp forests in Indonesia.

More recently he has been engaged in the Philippines with community-based carbon initiative involving over 20 community organisations, by determining the enabling biophysical and social conditions for rehabilitation of tropical forests through reforestation and developing silvicultural and monitoring criteria and methodologies along with recording and reporting requirements for seedling production, plantation development, maintenance and protection, while providing a healthy, safe, secure and environmentally responsible workplace.