Understanding Climate Finance

Understanding Climate Finance

By Pablo Pacheco and Melissa Panhol

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 global efforts to protect forests and address climate change. Each brochure breaks down a different topic in plain language, highlights opportunities and challenges for Indigenous Peoples (IPs) and Local Communities (LCs) and provides real-world examples to illustrate how these mechanisms work in practice.

Topics covered in the series include:

• Carbon and Climate Change
• Carbon Projects and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+)
• Jurisdictional REDD+ (JREDD+)
• LEAF Coalition and ART TREES Standard
• Project Nesting
• Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC)
• Benefit Sharing

Find the Portuguese version HERE and the Spanish version HERE.