What we do

Financing sustainable land use

We harness public and private funding to support smarter land management.

Safeguarding people and biodiversity

We work to ensure that deforestation delivers both social and environmental benefits.

Building back better

Working on resilient societies by investing in forests

Green Gigaton Challenge

A global initiative by Emergent and the UN-REDD Programme - supported by the Environmental Defense Fund, Forest Trends and the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions - to catalyse funding for one gigaton of high-quality emissions reductions a year from forests by 2025.

Managing wildfires

UNEP has helped coordinate research to understand how we can reduce our vulnerability to uncontrolled fires and avoid social, economic and biodiversity losses.

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