The 'Forest Dialogues' is a consensus-building process to raise the ambition of forest countries to deliver high-quality and high-integrity emissions reductions, and of donor countries and corporates to increase forest financing.

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Our ability to achieve a gigaton of emissions reductions from forests depends on forging a consensus on critical issues like forest carbon pricing, public financing levels, private sector engagement, emissions quality, and delivery methods.

In 2023-2024, the United Nations Environment Programme is convening discussions during regional climate weeks and forest summits to harmonize diverse perspectives on these key topics. Your perspectives are crucial in shaping a roadmap outlining measurable commitments for emissions reductions/enhanced removals (ERRs) by 2025, and ultimately the future of our forests. 

We are off-track, but the race is not over.

Despite the growing momentum, commitments for forests, we are nowhere near what is needed to reach Paris Agreement ambition​

Deforestation rates continue to persist. The existing model for financing forests is simply not working. There is a low level of ambition from key actors, slow implementation and a complex system with high transaction costs, coupled with a lack of incentives, and insufficient volume of funds needed to complement domestic funding to achieve forest solutions.

A future where forests and people co-exist, exists.

If we want to have a chance to limit global temperature rise to no more than 2 degrees, we need to unlock high-quality ER from forests. In fact, forests have potential to provide more than 4 GT per year of ER by 2030.​​

Achieving finance for 1 GT of high-integrity ER by 2025, and 1 GT per year thereafter is essential to unlock the potential of forests to curb the temperature increase.​

By doing so, we can reap multiple benefits for communities, economies and for biodiversity.