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Lançamento: Forest Trends, Ministério dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil e Greendata se unem para um projeto histórico
Brasília, Brasil, 9 de junho de 2025 – Com foco na valorização dos conhecimentos tradicionais, na governança dos territórios e no acesso justo ao financiamento climático, será implementado o projeto Fortalecimento dos Territórios Indígenas: Governança, Financiamento Climático e Cadeias de Valor da Sociobiodiversidade. O projeto será implementado ao longo dos próximos dois anos em todas […]

Release: Forest Trends, the Brazilian Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, and GreenData Join Together for a Historic Project
Brasília, Brazil, 9 June 2025 – Forest Trends, Brazil’s Ministry of Indigenous Peoples (MPI), and Greendata have launched a new project initiative, Strengthening Indigenous Territories: Governance, Climate Finance, and Biodiversity Value Chains. Focusing on the value of traditional knowledge, territorial governance, and equitable access to climate finance, this project will be implemented over the next two […]
Benchmark Report Finds the Voluntary Carbon Market in Transition: Demand Holding Steady as Turnover Stabilizes
Washington, DC, 29 May 2025 – Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace (EM) published new research today that shows the voluntary carbon market (VCM) in transition to a new phase with a greater focus on quality and integrity, and lower levels of market liquidity as measured in credit volumes traded. Though transaction volumes fell by 25 percent […]
Release: Forest Trends and GreenData Launch Resource Center to Support Indigenous and Local Communities in Climate and Conservation Finance
Washington, DC, 8 May 2025 – Forest Trends, in partnership with GreenData, has launched a new digital Resource Center designed to equip Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPs & LCs) with trustworthy information on climate and conservation finance, carbon markets, and territorial governance. This online hub fills a critical gap in the complex landscape of […]
Release: New Report Reveals China’s Significant Role in Tropical Deforestation Through Agricultural and Timber Imports
Washington, DC, 6 May 2025 – A new report from Forest Trends reveals that China’s imports of agricultural and timber products were linked to the loss of over 400,000 hectares of tropical forest annually between 2013 and 2022—roughly four million hectares in total—contributing to significant carbon emissions and biodiversity loss in some of the world’s most […]
Update from the NIWS Project / Actualización del proyecto NIWS
[Español abajo] On February 26, Forest Trends received notice that our Natural Infrastructure for Water Security (NIWS) project was terminated as part of the sweeping foreign aid cuts by the Trump administration. Since NIWS’ inception in 2017, we have been proud to provide critical support to Peruvian institutions and communities to address their ongoing water […]
Release: New Report Explores Strategies for Mobilizing Funds for Nature
Washington, DC, 10 April 2025 – As climate disasters, species loss, and environmental degradation dominate headlines, Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace offers a new report containing thoughtful commentary and perspectives on the deeper malfunction between our economic models and environmental future—and provides a broad set of strategies for mobilizing private funds for nature. Nature’s investment […]
Release: Sanctions Against Myanmar Work Despite Undermining by China
Washington, DC, 13 March 2025 – It has been four years since a coup d’état deposed the democratically elected Union Government of Myanmar (UGoM). Severe sanctions against the new ruling military junta are effective, and they are exposing the negative impact of trade through non-sanctioned countries, like China and India. The report by Forest Trends […]
Release: Government of Liberia Releases $300k to Logging-affected Communities Following Forest Trends Report Highlighting $25 Million Owed
Liberia’s legal framework requires that the communities most affected by industrial logging should also share in the benefits. Accordingly, the Government of Liberia (GoL) collects land-rental fees from industrial logging operations with the intent to redistribute some to these communities. Recent research by Forest Trends found that the GoL owes nearly US$25 million to communities […]
COP 16: Peru to Showcase Achievements of MERESE Mechanism to Conserve Water Resources and Biodiversity in the Salinas and Aguada Blanca National Reserve, Arequipa
At the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) that begins on October 21 in Cali, Colombia, Peru will show the importance of the MERESE tool (Mechanism for the Remuneration of Ecosystem Services) and its application in an innovative model for the conservation and sustainable management […]