https://www.forest-trends.org/blog/missing-link-protecting-forests-private-sector/ Pioneering Finance for Conservation Thu, 08 Feb 2018 21:56:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.forest-trends.org/blog/missing-link-protecting-forests-private-sector/#comment-79 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 15:44:09 +0000 http://www.forest-trends.org/blog/?p=3618#comment-79 […] The missing link in protecting forests This blog post looks at the importance of forests in the 2016 Paris Agreement — noting the “explicit recognition of the key role that forests … could play in reducing global warming pollution” — and discusses the potential of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), a U.N. program that aims to use forests for climate action. The author notes that in the last 10 years, 90 percent of funding for REDD+ programs has come from public sources and concludes that “business leadership should better align corporate and government policies to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.” He urges more active collaboration between public and private leaders “in assessing the implications of the Paris Agreement when developing and implementing countries’ nationally determined contributions” and the development of “public-private partnerships that create and improve the enabling conditions necessary to attract private sector capital.” […]

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