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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 […]

Washington, DC, 30 September 2025 — A new report from Forest Trends’ Communities and Territorial Governance Initiative (CTGI) reveals that although there is growing recognition of the leadership of Indigenous Peoples (IPs) and Local Communities (LCs) in forest governance and climate finance, change remains too slow, too uneven, and too fragile. Without structural reforms, the […]

Washington, DC, 19 September 2025 — Forest Trends’ Communities and Territorial Governance Initiative, in collaboration with Greendata and with support from the Walmart Foundation, has launched Understanding Climate Finance, a new series of educational brochures designed to make complex climate finance concepts clear and accessible. The series offers straightforward explanations of the key mechanisms shaping […]

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 […]

Cambodia has lost forest at one of the world’s fastest rates. According to Forest Trends, “95 percent of the timber harvested between 1997 and 1998 was illegally felled.” The country that was once 73% forested now struggles to protect its remaining fragments.

Forest Trends, in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, recently released a new report on the state of investment in nature-based solutions for water security. Gena Gammie, Director of Forest Trends’ Global Water Initiative and co-author of the report, joins in conversation about the report’s findings and their implications.

The EUDR’s new country classification lisk, which rates countries based on their risk of deforestation, fails to acknowledge many key countries as ‘high-risk’ and does not factor in timber laundered through global shipping hubs. Highlighting insights from Marigold Watkins, Senior Advisor at Forest Trends, and Kerstin Canby, Senior Director of our Forest Policy, Trade, and […]