1
Publication Thumbnail
Biodiversity Climate Communities Forests Investments

Entendendo o Financiamento Climático

By Pablo Pacheco and Melissa Panhol

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[…]

Dependent Documents

Publication Thumbnail

Introdução ao Carbono e à Mudança do Clima

By Pablo Pacheco e Melissa Panhol
Publication Thumbnail

Mercados de Carbono e REDD+

By Pablo Pacheco e Melissa Panhol
Publication Thumbnail
Biodiversity Climate Communities Forests Investments

Understanding Climate Finance

By Pablo Pacheco and Melissa Panhol

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[…]

Dependent Documents

Publication Thumbnail

Introduction to Carbon and Climate Change

By Pablo Pacheco and Melissa Panhol
Publication Thumbnail

Carbon Markets and REDD+

By Pablo Pacheco and Melissa Panhol
Publication Thumbnail
Biodiversity Climate Communities Forests Investments

Entendiendo el Financiamiento Climático

By Pablo Pacheco y Melissa Panhol

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

Publication Thumbnail

Introducción al Carbono y al Cambio Climático

By Pablo Pacheco y Melissa Panhol
Publication Thumbnail

Mercados de Carbono y REDD+

By Pablo Pacheco y Melissa Panhol
Publication Thumbnail
Investments Water

Doubling Down on Nature

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

By Mia Sakura Smith, Gena Gammie, Jinsui Song, Brooke Atwell, Daniel Shemie, Michael Bennett, Jose Cuadros Adriazola, Inca Juliet Joubert, and Paola Tanguy

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[…]

Publication Thumbnail
Climate Investments

2025 State of the Voluntary Carbon Market

Meeting the Moment: Renewing Trust in Carbon Finance

By Alex Procton

Over the 20-year history of Ecosystem Marketplace (EM), we have seen carbon markets grow from a nascent idea into a mechanism with the potential to seriously mitigate global warming. Our annual State of the Voluntary Carbon Market (SOVCM) provides a comprehensive overview of this global supply and demand of voluntary carbon credits. In this year’s […]

Dependent Documents

Publication Thumbnail

Estado do Mercado Voluntário de Carbono em 2025

Respondendo ao Momento: Renovando a Confiança no Financiamento do Carbono

By Alex Procton
Publication Thumbnail
Forests

China’s Tropical Deforestation and Emissions Footprint From Its Agricultural and Timber Imports

By The Forest Policy, Trade, and Finance Initiative

China’s strong domestic forest conservation policies have ensured its national forests are making a major contribution to global afforestation and reforestation efforts, as well as internal climate goals. However, there has been no official mention of emissions and deforestation linked to China’s timber and agricultural imports (known as “embedded emissions”). This is despite China being […]

Publication Thumbnail
Biodiversity

Nature’s investment frontier

Practical paths forward for biodiversity markets and finance

By Ricardo Bayon, Charles Bedford, Genevieve Bennett, Adam Davis, Ben Guillon, Katherine Hamilton, Michael Jenkins, Dr. Timothy Male, Martine Maron, Julia McCarthy, Yuejia Peng, Fabien Quétier, Mariana Sarmiento, Ryan Sarsfield, David Tepper, and Amrei von Hase

Biodiversity-based investment themes are suddenly in the spotlight, after years of feeling like a bit of an understudy to the carbon market. Given a ballooning finance gap for nature, and the obvious materiality of nature risk to business, there is renewed interest in economic instruments that can drive private investment toward interventions to avert biodiversity […]

Publication Thumbnail
Forests

Timber, Sanctions, and Conflict: Myanmar’s Forest Sector Since the Coup

By The Forest Policy, Trade, and Finance Initiative

Within a few months of the February 2021 coup d’état against the newly re-elected Union Government of Myanmar (UGoM), the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, Switzerland, and Canada imposed targeted sanctions on Myanmar’s military leadership and associated businesses. These sanctions were further expanded over the years to include measures against the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) […]

Publication Thumbnail
Communities Investments Water

Serie de Guías de infraestructura natural para la gestión del riesgo de desastres

Guías para elaborar estudios definitivos de infraestructura natural (IN) con enfoque de gestión del riesgo de desastres (GRD)

El Perú es un país megadiverso y altamente vulnerable al cambio climático, por lo que debe integrarse a su visión de desarrollo un enfoque de Reducción del Riesgos de Desastres de origen hidrometeorológico.Esto implica articular políticas y compromisos internacionales de Gestión del Riesgos de Desastres (GRD), fortaleciendo la resiliencia frente al cambio climático mediante acciones […]

Publication Thumbnail
Forests

Vietnam Timber Legality Risk Dashboard

By Forest Trends

On September 1, 2020, the Government of Vietnam (GoV) issued Decree 102/2020/ND-CP, enacting Vietnam’s Timber Legality Assurance System (VNTLAS) as part of its commitments under the Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA), a bilateral trade agreement with the European Union. One of the main objectives of the VNTLAS Decree has […]