Saving and restoring tropical forests has enormous value for the planet and the economy
Without dedicated efforts to protect tropical forests, tropical deforestation will contribute to the atmosphere on the order of 200 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions through the end of the century.
Protecting tropical forests at scale thus offers an outsized—and indispensable—economic return on climate investment. Finance to protect and restore tropical forests, including through purchases of high-integrity jurisdictional-scale carbon credits through strategies such as the Emergent Forest Finance Accelerator and by sending a strong demand signal through the Green Gigaton Challenge will be of utmost importance to reduce carbon emissions to net zero as needed to achieve the goals of Paris.
