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Together with partners around the world, Forest Trends pioneers innovative finance for conservation, promoting healthy forests, sustainable agriculture, clean water, robust climate action, biodiverse landscapes, and strong communities.

Our programs and initiatives publish timely research, bring together diverse actors, and apply these approaches to make a difference on the ground, often blazing trails for bold and far-reaching policies in the process.

 
 

Forest Trends protects critical ecosystems through creative environmental finance, markets, supply chains, and other incentive mechanisms. We build diverse coalitions with governments, local and indigenous communities, and business to ensure that all stakeholders are engaged and benefit from conservation.

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Biodiversity Climate Communities Investments

Towards Inclusive and Equitable Jurisdictional REDD+

Edited and translated by Debora Batista and Melissa Panhol As the world moves to scale climate finance through Jurisdictional REDD+ (J-REDD) programs, a central question emerges: who benefits and how? Initiatives like the LEAF Coalition (Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest Finance) represent promising efforts to mobilize large-scale results-based finance for forest protection. Yet, their success […]

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Water

A New Partnership with ADERASA: Why Water Utility Regulators Are Strategic Levers for Scaling Nature-based Solutions

Investment in nature-based solutions for water security is growing, but it remains uneven and still relies heavily on public tax dollars. Across Latin America and globally, most funding for watershed conservation and restoration continues to come from government programs and projects, rather than from the water users who directly depend on healthy ecosystems for reliable services. While public funding has been—and will remain—essential, this reliance raises a critical question for the future of the […]

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Climate Communities Investments

What We Learned from Phase 1 of Our Jurisdictional REDD+ Work and What Comes Next

As jurisdictional climate finance continues to scale, a central question remains unresolved: How can these programs meaningfully include Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples (IPs, LCs, & ADs), whose territories and governance systems are essential to forest protection? From 2023 to 2025, Forest Trends’ Communities and Territorial Governance Initiative explored what inclusive, rights-based engagement […]

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Water

Nature-based Solutions and the Multilateral Move Upstream

We are at an inflection point for nature-based solutions (NbS) for water security in the developing world. Once a niche approach, NbS are increasingly recognized as a mainstream tool for addressing water and climate risks—a shift already well underway in major economies and now beginning to take hold across the developing world. Multilateral institutions, like […]

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