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Indigenous Peoples and local communities are strengthening their leadership, protecting forests and securing land rights through direct access to climate finance that supports locally driven solutions.
Cambodia
Costa Rica has become the first country in the world to successfully verify national removals from REDD+ under ART-TREES - The REDD+ Environmental Excellence Standard from The Architecture for REDD+ Transactions.
Site visit to forest village in Costa Rica
Protecting forests and the multitude of environmental services they provide requires a shift in how they are financed.
Photo by UN-REDD Programme
The 1st International Dialogue on Payment for Environmental Services (PES)—led by the Government of Brazil—launches a structured, long-term exchange process focused, in this first edition, on PES financing mechanisms.
Participants of the first global Payments for Environmental Services Dialogue, Brasilia.
UNDP seeks to identify private sector partners ready to design and implement high-quality mitigation projects.
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Through the new two-year agreement, BeZero will provide UNDP teams with free access to all features of its platform.
UNDP BeZero
Under the concept of ForestFlow, UNDP will support countries to integrate financial, commercial and digital instruments for forests.
ForestFlows COP30
The TFFF Country Access Platform will serve as a hub to provide knowledge, connecting tropical countries.
Manaus State of Amazonas, Brazil
National climate plans offer blueprints for local economic development.
Indigenous woman in forest
What does it take to turn climate ambition into real change--especially in complex sectors like Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses (AFOLU)? Our regional stocktake reveals the barriers, gaps, and opportunities shaping how countries implement their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in agriculture, forestry, and land use.
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