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Facing the current climate crisis requires all hands-on-deck and the New York Declaration on Forests provides a renewed framework for forest action. Originally launched in 2014 at the United Nations Secretary General’s Climate Action Summit, the New...

Gender equality is an international development priority, particularly in the context of climate finance. While the current forest-focused climate finance architecture involves numerous private sector and institutional stakeholders, it can – and...

The Lonquimay commune sits in a valley in the Chilean Andes. Found in the country’s Araucanía Region, it is the home 52 families of the Mapuche-Pehuenche community of Quinquén, which belongs one of the first native peoples in the region and maintains...

Recording can be accessed here Despite the tremendous mitigation potential offered by tropical forests, this solution to the climate crisis remains underfunded. In the context of increasing public-private efforts to mobilize transformative finance to...

Humanity depends on the critical resources provided by the Earth’s landscapes and ecosystems: food, fibre, wood, energy, water and medicines. However, the extraction of these resources is often linked to changes in land use patterns, with...

In 2020, thanks to the UN-REDD Programme’s continuous support, Costa Rica became the first Central American country recognised by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for successfully removing 14.7 million metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent between 2014-2015...

The V Executive Board Meeting included a specific session to discuss scaling up REDD+ finance as a necessary, though not sufficient, condition to achieve forest mitigation ambitions. Bringing deforestation and forest degradation down to zero by 2030...