Emergent is a non-profit created to urgently address the climate and biodiversity crises by incentivizing reductions in deforestation to maximize climate, ecosystem, and sustainable development benefits.
We are a non-profit intermediary engaging between tropical forest countries and the private sector to mobilize finance to support emissions reductions in deforestation. We do this by developing and bringing-to-market practical, credible and large scale forest protection solutions.
Tropical forests are one of the most powerful tools to slow and ultimately halt climate change. They store up to 1/4 of all the aboveground carbon and represent 50% of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. Protecting tropical forests is necessary to address the climate and biodiversity crises.
Only by working with national and state governments, “jurisdictions,” and by channelling private capital, can we achieve the massive reductions in deforestation required. The jurisdictional approach safeguards a minimum size of 2.5 million hectares, offering the scale needed to protect tropical forests in the fastest way for the climate.
Tropical forests could provide nearly one-quarter of the cost-effective climate mitigation needed between now and 2030 to stabilize warming to below 2°C. We are running out of time – we need new thinking and urgent action. We have a historic opportunity to bend the climate curve – if we act now.
We are supported by a coalition of pre-eminent organizations, NGOs and governments. As a non-profit, our only financial focus is maximizing the sale of carbon credits to fund forest protection programmes.
The Emergent team is an experienced, multifaceted group of individuals, who share a vision to protect tropical forests for the planet. Our team is a collection of finance and policy experts, all galvanized by the opportunity to create real, transformational change.
“Nature-based solutions are an opportunity to unlock remarkable potential of nature to address the triple planetary crises of climate change, pollution, and loss of nature and biodiversity”
Susan Gardner, Director of Ecosystems Divisions at UNEP