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¡𝗘𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗼𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼! 𝗡𝘂𝗲𝘃𝗼𝘀 𝗧𝗗𝗥 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘀—𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗹𝗮 𝗮𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗮 𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝘂 𝗿𝗲𝗱!![]()
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Nos complace anunciar la publicación de varios Términos de Referencia (TDR) de consultorías para apoyar áreas clave del arranque de un nuevo proyecto a favor de las Soluciones basadas en la Naturaleza en Perú. Buscamos personas excepcionales que puedan incorporarse de inmediato — la contratación comenzará tan pronto como se identifiquen candidatos calificados.![]()
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Los TDR correspondientes a cada consultoría ya están publicados aquí y abiertos para postulaciones: bit.ly/FT-Careers![]()
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¡Gracias por ayudarnos a multiplicar esta convocatoria compartiéndola con tu red!
Director of our Communities and Territorial Governance Initiative, Beto Borges, will be moderating a panel at Brown University as part of Brown Climate Week and the conference “Banking on Nature: Sustainable Finance and the Environment.”![]()
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His session, Indigenous Knowledge & Rights of Nature, brings together Anderson Suruí (Brazil), Nkamunu Patita (Kenya), and Vic Hogg (Potawatomi Nation) to reflect on what meaningful governance requires in practice, where nature finance has supported communities, and where it still falls short.![]()
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As nature-based finance expands, the real question may not be how fast markets scale, but whether they can align with the governance systems that have sustained these territories for generations.
Communities are essential stewards of forests and nature. As climate finance grows, it’s critical that Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities and Afro-descendant Peoples (IPs, LCs & ADs) lead the way and benefit directly. ![]()
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We are excited to launch Phase 2 of Forest Trends’ Jurisdictional REDD+ work, supported by a grant from the Walmart Foundation, to deepen community-led, rights-based engagement of IPs, LCs, & ADs in Brazil and Mexico. ![]()
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Check out what we accomplished in Phase 1 and how this next phase will advance community co-design, shared decision-making, and long-term community leadership: bit.ly/Phase1_EN![]()
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#JurisdictionalREDD #ClimateFinance #BenefitSharing #FPIC ![]()
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As comunidades são guardiãs essenciais das florestas e da natureza. À medida que o financiamento climático cresce, é fundamental que Povos Indígenas, Comunidades Locais e Povos Afrodescendentes (PIs, CLs e ADs) estejam à frente desses processos e se beneficiem diretamente deles. ![]()
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Temos o prazer de lançar a Fase 2 do trabalho da Forest Trends de apoio ao REDD+ Jurisdicional, o qual conta com recursos de doação da Walmart Foundation, para aprofundar o engajamento liderado pelas comunidades e baseado em direitos de PIs, CLs e ADs no Brasil e no México. ![]()
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Confira o que realizamos na Fase 1 e como esta nova fase irá avançar no co-desenho com as comunidades, na tomada de decisões compartilhada e no fortalecimento da liderança comunitária de longo prazo: bit.ly/fase1_PT![]()
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#JREDD #FinanciamentoClimatico #ReparticaoDeBeneficios #CLPI ![]()
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Las comunidades son guardianas esenciales de los bosques y de la naturaleza. A medida que el financiamiento climático crece, es fundamental que los Pueblos Indígenas, las Comunidades Locales y los Pueblos Afrodescendientes (PPII, CCLL y ADs) estén al frente de estos procesos y puedan beneficiarse directamente de ellos. ![]()
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Nos complace lanzar la Fase 2 del trabajo de Forest Trends de apoyo al REDD+ Jurisdiccional, financiado mediante una donación de la Fundación Walmart, para profundizar el compromiso liderado por las comunidades y basado en derechos de PPII, CCLL y ADP en Brasil y México. ![]()
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Conoce lo que logramos en la Fase 1 y cómo esta nueva fase avanzará en el co-diseño junto con las comunidades, la toma de decisiones compartida y el fortalecimiento del liderazgo comunitario a largo plazo: bit.ly/Fase1_ES![]()
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📷: Nicia Coutinho, FT/Greendata
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Four years after Myanmar’s military coup, what does the latest trade data show? ![]()
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Our team has updated our 2025 analysis on timber, sanctions, and conflict in Myanmar’s forest sector. Using the most recent official trade data, the briefing finds that more than US$1.45 billion in forest products have been traded with Myanmar since the coup, despite ongoing international sanctions. ![]()
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Our report highlights major discrepancies between reported imports and exports, ongoing risks of sanctions evasion, and the need for coordinated international action to prevent illicit timber trade from financing conflict and environmental harm. ![]()
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Check out the updated analysis and key recommendations here: bit.ly/Myanmar_Update![]()
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#Myanmar #IllicitTrade #Timber
Landesa and Forest Trends have released a rights-based protocol to better integrate Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (#FPIC) across regulated and voluntary carbon markets. ![]()
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Grounded in instruments such as the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and ILO Convention 169, this protocol makes clear that FPIC is not a one-time approval. It is a continuous, rights-based process that gives Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples (IPs, LCs, & ADs) the meaningful ability to say yes, no, or yes with conditions. ![]()
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By strengthening consultation, tenure safeguards, benefit sharing, and gender inclusion, robust FPIC processes can reduce risk and support more durable climate and community outcomes. ![]()
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Read the full protocol here: bit.ly/FPIC_Protocol
Welcome back to Meet the FT team! This month, meet Devika Jaipuriar, Manager of our Institutional Budgets and Grants. ![]()
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Dev brings many years of experience in non-profit operations, grant/contract procurement and management, budgeting, and financial management from World Resources Institute (WRI), where she supported the Energy Program, Sustainable Finance Center, and Climate Program during her tenure. During her time at WRI, she not only became a master at successfully managing day-to-day financial operations, but she also assisted in the growth of multiple teams by ushering in several impactful grant agreements via donors from a wide variety of government agencies (both US and international), foundations, and private corporations. ![]()
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Since joining Forest Trends in 2021, she has rapidly moved from program-level to institutional-level financial and grant management under the leadership of the CFO's office. Devika holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology & Environmental Studies from Binghamton University in New York and is currently working towards her Master of Science in Business Analytics at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.![]()
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Fun fact about Dev: In early June, she is heading on a week-long Global Course as part of her masters program in Helsinki, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia, where she will have the unique opportunity to visit with and interview companies in the technology/data analytics field.
We’re pleased to formally announce a new Memorandum of Understanding between ADERASA (the Latin American association of water utility regulators), The Nature Conservancy , and Forest Trends. ![]()
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At its core, this partnership recognizes a simple but powerful idea: healthy ecosystems are essential to the reliability, resilience, and long-term sustainability of our drinking water systems. ![]()
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By working through ADERASA’s regional network, this collaboration aims to strengthen the role of drinking water regulators in promoting nature-based solutions for water security across Latin America and the Caribbean, supporting the conditions under which utilities can responsibly and effectively invest in nature. ![]()
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More to come but today is an important milestone! ![]()
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Read more about our work at: bit.ly/ADERASA_TNC_MOU
Today, it’s more profitable to destroy forests than protect them.![]()
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At Forest Trends, we’re changing that equation by driving innovation in environmental finance, so that resilient ecosystems and thriving communities come first. Your support makes this work possible.![]()
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If you believe in markets that respect nature’s value, please consider donating and joining us in this critical effort: bit.ly/ForestTrends-Donate
The private sector is the fastest growing segment of the Nature-based Security (NbS) for water landscape. Our recent report, Doubling Down on Nature, showed that private sector investments have increased over 30x over the last decade, reaching $345M in 2023. Despite this rapid growth, it still represents less than one percent of global investment in NbS for water. This limited share reflects a fundamental challenge: private investment in NbS is often constrained by the inherently public nature of the benefits these projects provide. ![]()
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Most private investment in NbS for water is driven by regulation. In 2023, more than two-thirds of private investment ($239M, or 69%) were directly required by regulation (e.g., as a fee on water use or pollution) or were implemented to meet regulatory requirements. The largest single driver of private investment was the California Climate Investments program, which invests revenues generated from the state’s greenhouse Cap and Trade program into initiatives that reduce greenhouse gases. Of the $1.7B invested by the program in 2023, we estimate $222M was spent on NbS initiatives that included water security objectives, such as CAL FIRE’s Forest Health Program and the Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Wetlands Restoration program, among others. ![]()
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Read our full findings at bit.ly/NbSReport
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