FORESTS FOR PEOPLE AND PLANET
How Funders Can Support
- Directly finance Indigenous and community organizations, networks, and movements to support them in mobilizing, advocating, and administering their programs.
- Fund security and collective protection for land and environment defenders and communities at risk, including strategic communications capacity so defenders and communities can connect their stories to global conversations in their own voices.
- Scale up support to existing modalities that advance Indigenous and community land rights and forest management, such as the International Land and Forest Tenure Facility.
- Help community enterprises attract new sources of capital, expand market access for their forest product value chains, and advocate to reduce regulations that discriminate against small producers.
- Mobilize public-private partnerships to scale up innovation and impact in community forest management. Consider a Global Initiative dedicated to mobilizing big investments and coordinating partnerships to finance rights- and market-based innovations to scale community ownership and engagement in sustainable economic activities.
Related Resources
Climate & Forests 2030 Papers
- Community Forest Management (Hodgdon)
- Social Enterprise and Innovation: Opportunities for a New Development Model in Forest and Rural Areas (Castro, Brito, & Grottera)
Other publications
- Securing Rights, Combatting Climate Change. World Resources Institute (2014)
How Funders Can Support
- Support development and research that increases the value of standing forests to local, regional, and global communities, including through innovation in sustainable product lines and their marketing, and through the recognition and valuation of services that forests provide, including for human health.
- Finance the strengthening of protected areas and of Indigenous and forest community territories, particularly those buffering against expanding deforestation frontiers.
- Support and finance the creation of new protected areas and of Indigenous and community territories.
- Support policies and programs that generate large-scale public and private finance for forest protection, including “jurisdictional” REDD+ payments and other large-scale “Payment for Environmental Services” programs.
Related Resources
Climate & Forests 2030 Papers
- Forests and Climate: Impacts, Mitigation, and Adaptation – Scientific Assessment (Nolan, Field & Mach)
- Strategies for Triggering Transformative Climate Change Pathways: Towards “Fit for Purpose” Philanthropic and Donor Engagement (Cashore)
- Forests and International Carbon Markets (Keohane & Seymour)
How Funders Can Support
- Support policy development to promote natural forest regeneration and active restoration in critical geographies.
- Utilize grantmaking and impact investments to help ensure access to de-risking capital to facilitate private sector finance for forest restoration.
- Invest in monitoring restoration, scaling and sharing successful technical, financial, and social impact solutions, and collecting and sharing restoration knowledge so it is globally accessible.
Resources
Other publications
- Afforestation & Reforestation: Restoring trees to ecologically suitable landscapes Economist Intelligence Unit
How Funders Can Support
- Fund and promote research and communications that draw attention to the connections between human and ecosystem health (i.e., ‘One Health’) and the relevance to pandemic prevention.
- Consolidate and package the evidence base of links between human, animal, and environmental health;
- Support effective ‘One Health’ awareness campaigns on the human-environmental health connection; and,
- Invest in the public health community’s research and understanding of links between ecosystem integrity, deforestation drivers, and human health.
- Catalyze development of a major multilateral pandemic prevention fund to channel billions of dollars annually toward pandemic prevention in key “source” regions.
- Invest in fire prevention and management programs to protect forests and public health.
- Support efforts to reduce animal meat and dairy consumption and reform industrialized agribusiness practices.
Related Resources
Climate & Forests 2030 Papers
- Human Health, Land Use, and Climate in a Changing World (Corvalan & Sena)
