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[caption id="attachment_458" align="alignleft" width="188"] Foto credits: Rémi Bénali[/caption]In her article Pay to Preserve: The Global Politics of Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT Proposal, published in DevPol’s special issue on Energy and Development in 2011, Pamela L. Martin, Associate Professor of Politics at the Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, provided a favourable outlook on Ecuador’s innovative environmental governance mechanism. Despite its benefits, the initiative was abandoned in 2013. In the paper “Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT Initiative: Why did it fail?”, Martin revisits the initiative and analyses the reasons for its failure.&#160;Initial contribution:Pamela L. Martin, Associate Professor of Politics, Coastal Carolina UniversityEcuador’s Yasuní-ITT Initiative: Why did it fail?Reaction and Analysis:Imme Scholz, Deputy Director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)Toward a Revolutionary Path: Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT InitiativeDownload the whole debate (pdf)We invite the initial author and any interested readers to share their comments and views.&#160;