Publications

Consultation and Free, Prior, and Informed Consent

A Referential Practice for Carbon Projects Following a Rights-based Approach

Carbon standards and guidelines emphasize the importance of respecting the land and resource rights of Indigenous Peoples, customary land rights holders, and local communities. Central to these is the requirement to hold consultation processes and to obtain Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) from these groups before undertaking any activities that may affect them or[…]

An Update on the Impact of International Sanctions on Myanmar’s Forest Sector

Four Years Since the Coup

Our latest briefing, An Update on the Impact of International Sanctions on Myanmar’s Forest Sector: Four Years Since the Coup, builds on Forest Trends’ 2025 report, Timber, Sanctions, and Conflict: Myanmar’s Forest Sector Since the Coup. While the earlier report tracked trade through mid-2024, this new analysis incorporates the latest official data and examines evolving[…]

Honduras Timber Legality Risk Dashboard

Honduras faces exceptionally high forest-sector risks driven by widespread illegal logging, weak governance, and deep links between organized crime and the timber trade. An estimated 80–90% of high-value, often CITES-listed hardwoods and 40–50% of softwoods are illegally harvested, with demand largely from the United States and China. Illegal logging is closely intertwined with drug trafficking, […]

Forest Trends Impact Report 2025

Field Guide to the Future: Reflections on 25 Years of Pioneering Finance for Nature

This year, Forest Trends celebrates 25 years of turning bold ideas into measurable impact. What began as a radical belief that we could re-engineer markets to help protect nature has grown into a global movement aligning finance, policy, and community action.  Our 2025 Impact Report, Field Guide to the Future, looks at where we’ve been, […]

Learnings from Government-Led Approaches to Nature Credit Markets

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets out humanity’s vision to halt and reverse nature loss, a key component of which is the need to mobilise greater funding to close the biodiversity finance gap. The GBF emphasises the need for a range of financial instruments to be deployed in order to accelerate the transition to […]

State of Climate and Conservation Finance for Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities Report

Trust, Tenure, Transparency: Foundations for More Equitable Climate & Conservation Finance

Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPs & LCs) are recognized as the most effective stewards of forests and biodiversity, yet they continue to receive only a fraction of the funding that is meant to protect these ecosystems. This gap is more than a matter of fairness. It undermines the effectiveness of climate action, biodiversity conservation, […]

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Estado do Financiamento Climático e de Conservação para Povos Indígenas e Comunidades Locais

Confiança, Direitos e Transparência: Bases para o Financiamento Climático e de Conservação

By Arthur Blundell, Emily Harwell, Beto Borges, Debora Batista, Melissa Panhol

Estado del Financiamiento Climático y de Conservación para Pueblos Indígenas y Comunidades Locales

Confianza, Derechos y Transparencia: Fundamentos para el Financiamiento Climático y de Conservación

By Arthur Blundell, Emily Harwell, Beto Borges, Debora Batista, Melissa Panhol

Entendendo o Financiamento Climático

A Iniciativa Comunidades e Governança Territorial da Forest Trends lançou a série de cartilhas educativas Entendendo o Financiamento Climático, projetada para tornar conceitos complexos de finanças climáticas mais acessíveis com foco em oportunidades e desafios para Povos Indígenas, Populações e Comunidades Locais (PIPCTs), além de fornecer exemplos reais para ilustrar como esses mecanismos funcionam na prática. A[…]

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Introdução ao Carbono e à Mudança do Clima

Por Pablo Pacheco e Melissa Panhol

Mercados de Carbono e REDD+

Por Pablo Pacheco e Melissa Panhol

Programas Jurisdicionais de REDD+

Por Pablo Pacheco e Melissa Panhol

Coalizão LEAF e Padrão TREES

Por Pablo Pacheco e Melissa Panhol

Aninhamento de Projetos

Por Pablo Pacheco e Melissa Panhol

Processo de consulta para Consentimento Livre, Prévio e Informado

Por Pablo Pacheco e Melissa Panhol

Repartição de Benefícios

Por Pablo Pacheco e Melissa Panhol

Understanding Climate Finance

Forest Trends’ Communities and Territorial Governance Initiative has launched Understanding Climate Finance, a new series of educational brochures designed to make complex climate finance concepts more accessible. It focuses on opportunities and challenges for Indigenous Peoples (IPs) and Local Communities (LCs), while providing real-world examples to illustrate how these mechanisms work in practice. The series offers[…]

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Introduction to Carbon and Climate Change

By Pablo Pacheco and Melissa Panhol

Carbon Markets and REDD+

By Pablo Pacheco and Melissa Panhol

Jurisdictional REDD+ Programs (JREDD+)

By Pablo Pacheco and Melissa Panhol

LEAF Coalition and TREES Standard

By Pablo Pacheco and Melissa Panhol

Project Nesting

By Pablo Pacheco and Melissa Panhol

Consultation Process for Free, Prior, and Informed Consent

By Pablo Pacheco and Melissa Panhol

Benefit Sharing

By Pablo Pacheco and Melissa Panhol

Entendiendo el Financiamiento Climático

La Iniciativa Comunidades y Gobernanza Territorial de Forest Trends ha lanzado Entendiendo el Financiamiento Climático, una nueva serie de folletos educativos diseñados para que los conceptos complejos de las finanzas climáticas sean más accesibles, con enfoque en las oportunidades y los desafíos para los Pueblos Indígenas (PI) y las Comunidades Locales (CL) y proporciona ejemplos reales[…]

Dependent Documents

Introducción al Carbono y al Cambio Climático

Por Pablo Pacheco y Melissa Panhol

Mercados de Carbono y REDD+

Por Pablo Pacheco y Melissa Panhol

Programas REDD+ Jurisdiccionales (JREDD+)

Por Pablo Pacheco y Melissa Panhol

Coalición LEAF y Estándar TREES

Por Pablo Pacheco y Melissa Panhol

Anidamiento de Proyectos

Por Pablo Pacheco y Melissa Panhol

Proceso de consulta para el Consentimiento Libre, Previo e Informado

Por Pablo Pacheco y Melissa Panhol

Distribución de Beneficios

Por Pablo Pacheco y Melissa Panhol

Doubling Down on Nature

The State of Investment in Nature-based Solutions for Water Security, 2025

Water is everywhere in our lives: not just in what we drink or use to grow food, but in data centers, cooling systems, energy grids, sanitation, and manufacturing. It powers our economies and our everyday routines. And in much of the world, water is also the face of climate change. We see it in intensifying[…]