A report from the Interim Forest Finance Project – a collaboration of the Global Canopy Programme, the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, Fauna & Flora International, and UNEP Finance Initiative – reveals that demand for REDD+ emission reductions could be as little as 3% of the supply between 2015 and 2020. The report explains the risks of doing nothing, and outlines a suite of options for increasing demand.
The Interim Forest Finance Facility (IFFF) Scoping Study: Briefing Note
There is currently no financial mechanism that will pay for medium to long-term emissions reductions from REDD+ in the period between 2015 and 20201 (‘the interim period’), and do so at the scale needed to meet emissions reduction targets in tropical forest...