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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 […]

Belém, Brazil, 3 November 2025 – Everland has secured Letters of Intent totaling US$ 160M from companies seeking to purchase carbon credits from a new portfolio of Indigenous and traditional community-centered forest conservation projects in greater Amazonia, to be developed with financing from its Indigenous Amazon Outcome Bond initiative. So far, 23 projects representing nearly 90,000 […]

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 […]

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 […]