State of Forest Carbon Finance 2015
Converging at the Crossroads
By Allie Goldstein, Evan Neyland View PublicationCompanies and governments around the world committed US$705 million in new finance in 2014 to enhance the role of forests in combating climate change, according to a report released this week by Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace, Converging at the Crossroads: State of Forest Carbon Finance in 2015.
Over the last decade, private and public sector actors have provided a cumulative $5.1 billion to initiatives that aim to keep threatened forests standing, promote carbon-conscious land management, and plant new trees. But last year marked the first time that market-based payments for verified emissions reductions – a record-high $257 million for 34.4 million tonnes of offset greenhouse gases – exceeded the $229 million in new “readiness” payments intended to help tropical forest countries build capacity to halt deforestation under the United Nations’ Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) mechanism.
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SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS
Historical Market-Based Payments for Forest-Based Emissions Reductions: Transaction
Volumes and Values
Volume of Demand for Forest Carbon Offsets by Project Type, All Markets, Historical
Powerpoint Presentation Given at Launch Webinar (presented by Allie Goldstein)
SELECT MEDIA COVERAGE
- Report finds international financing for forests and climate moving from capacity building to implementation – Mongabay
- Markets emerge as main drivers of forest carbon cuts: report – Carbon Pulse
- Payments for emissions reductions up, but challenges remain – ClimateWire (subscription only)
- Trade in forest-based carbon credits reaches record high – Environmental Finance (subscription only)
DONORS, SPONSORS, AND SUPPORTERS
The State of Forest Carbon Finance 2015 is publicly and freely available thanks to support from the report’s Donors: Good Energies Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Sponsor New Forests; and its Supporters: Code REDD, the Kinship Foundation, and South Pole Carbon Asset Management Ltd.
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