Forest Trends in the News

La Aldea COP, el principal centro de participación indígena en la COP30, será sede de dos conversatorios sobre financiamiento directo y justicia climática este jueves 20 de octubre. Estos espacios se realizarán con el fin de valorar el indispensable rol de pueblos indígenas y comunidades locales en la conservación, la restauración de ecosistemas, la acción climática, la […]

The fact is that despite three decades of pledges — and some notable areas of progress — global emissions continue to rise. Many companies set ambitious goals only to postpone or quietly abandon them once the real costs become clear. And more still don’t even do that. There is nothing to suggest that carbon credits are to […]

As global negotiators gather for COP30 in the heart of the Amazon, climate standards group Equitable Earth unveiled a new methodology aimed at reshaping how forest conservation projects earn and trade carbon credits. The framework, called M002, updates the REDD+ system for avoiding unplanned deforestation and degradation and is designed to streamline certification for community-led conservation.

As the host of COP30, Brazil has a unique opportunity to help shape the future of global carbon markets by leveraging its experience in nature-based solutions. The numerous practical frameworks that Brazil has created demonstrate that economic development and forest protection can co-exist and can serve as models for other countries. Brazil’s experience with Indigenous […]

Global leaders are now 63% off target to end deforestation by 2030, a new Forest Declaration Assessment has declared, after it found that 8.1 million hectares of forest were permanently lost in 2024 — half the size of England. Wood Central understands that loss exceeded the annual limit compatible with the 2030 goal by 3.1 […]

Forest issues trackers like Forest Trends and the media estimate that more than 17,000 logs have been abandoned nationwide since 2019, representing a potential market value of over US$20 million. Of this, they say communities were due hundreds of thousands of dollars in land rental and social development fees, while the government itself lost millions […]

Despite being hailed as irreplaceable stewards of nature, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) are still being left out of the climate finance equation. A new analysis by Forest Trends and Rainforest Foundation Norway shows that of the $2.7 billion pledged to IPLCs between 2011 and 2020, only 17% reached IPLC-led organizations — and a […]

Instead, China has voluntary guidelines for tracing timber, which, according to a study conducted by Forest Trends, have been developed as a “stepwise approach towards eventual mandatory legislation.”

The tepid trading reflects widespread loss of confidence about the quality of carbon credits after several high-profile analyses that found a number of major projects were not removing or reducing carbon as much as claimed. But Ecosystem Marketplace, a carbon markets information platform run by the conservation finance organisation Forest Trends, sees reasons for “moderate […]

Critics argue that timber harvested in high-risk regions could be processed in low-risk hubs such as China, Singapore, or India, and then re-exported to Europe under misleading classifications. “Presumably, declarations would still need to indicate the original country of harvest,” said Kerstin Canby of Forest Trends, who spoke to Wood Central in June. “But if the country of harvest […]