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Introducing Forest Trends’ 2026 Photo & Illustration Contest: “Resilience at Scale”!

Global

Español, Português, & Tiếng Việt instructions are below the English. Enter the contest    Participa en el concurso    Participe do concurso    Thể lệ cuộc thi  Join us in celebrating the resilience of nature through your creativity. This contest is a chance to showcase your talent, share your unique perspective, and help us promote conservation efforts. […]

Water

Webinar: Metodología y estimación de la brecha de inversión en ecosistemas de interés hídrico

Virtual

En América Latina, los prestadores de servicios de agua potable enfrentan riesgos crecientes para la seguridad hídrica debido a la degradación de ecosistemas en las áreas de captación y a los impactos del cambio climático. Sin embargo, en la mayoría de los países de la región aún no se ha estimado de manera sistemática la […]

Communities

ALDEIA COP Belém

Belém, Brazil

Join us for ALDEIA COP Belém! Forest Trends is proud to support the Indigenous Village at COP30 (Aldeia COP)—the central hub for Indigenous participation in Belém this November. Download the flyer! In partnership with Brazil’s Ministry of Indigenous Peoples and Greendata, we’re helping bring together up to 3,000 Indigenous leaders from Brazil and around the […]

Investments

Webinar: Navigating the Development of CCP-approved Projects for NbS

Virtual

In the 2025 State of the Voluntary Carbon Market report, Ecosystem Marketplace (EM) found that the market is undergoing a major supply-side reboot, in response to increasingly sophisticated demand and shifts toward quality. EM hosted this follow-up webinar to explore and better understand how project developers and the supply side of the market are navigating this transition to Core Carbon […]

Investments Water

Webinar: State of Investment in Nature-based Solutions for Water Security

Virtual

Are nature-based solutions (NbS) for water security a passing trend or are they here to stay? A new report from Forest Trends and The Nature Conservancy explores this question with the most comprehensive global assessment to date of finance explicitly directed toward NbS with water-related objectives. This one-hour webinar dove into the global state of […]

Climate Communities Forests

Webinar: The True Cost of REDD+ Carbon Credits: Aligning Prices with High-Integrity Standards

Virtual

Forest Trends, Nature4Climate and the UN Environment Programme hosted this webinar focusing on forecasts and expectations for REDD+ carbon pricing. The global demand, and associated price, for high-quality carbon removal credits seems to be rising, yet the past two years has seen the price of many REDD+ credits remain well below $10 per ton. While […]

Biodiversity

16th Conference of Parties on Biological Diversity

Cali, Colombia

October 21 – November 1, 2024 | Cali, Colombia COP 16 will be the first Biodiversity COP since the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework at COP 15 in December 2022 in Montreal, Canada. COP 16 will bring together world leaders from more than 190 countries, including heads of state, authorities, and experts, to […]

Agriculture Biodiversity Climate Communities Forests Investments Water

New York Climate Week: Making the Priceless Valuable

Ethic, 99 Hudson St 17th floor, New York, NY 10013, USA

September 25, 2024 | 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST REGISTER Location: Ethic HQ Conveners: Forest Trends, Encourage Capital, and Ethic ​The last three decades have been a time of tremendous breakthroughs in harnessing the power of the global economy to bring value to nature. We’ve seen a proliferation of market-based instruments like carbon markets, […]

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New York Climate Week: Full List of Forest Trends Events

New York, New York

September 22-29, 2024 | New York, New York Climate Week NYC is the largest annual climate event of its kind, bringing together over 600 events and activities across the City of New York – in person, hybrid and online. Each year, business leaders, political change makers, local decision takers and civil society representatives of all […]

Climate Communities Investments Water

World Water Forum

Bali, Indonesia

May 18th – 25th, 2024 | Bali, Indonesia As the world’s largest event on water, the World Water Forum provides a unique platform where the water community and key decision makers can collaborate and make long-term progress on global water challenges. The Forum brings together participants from all levels and areas, including politics, multilateral institutions, […]