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Investments in Forests and Sustainable Land Use
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support public-private partnerships that demonstrate how companies, communities, smallholders and governments can work collaboratively to reduce deforestation and benefit forest dependent communities
Mobilising Finance for Forests (MFF)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Mobilising Finance for Forests (MFF) will use a blended finance investment approach to combat deforestation and other environmentally unsustainable land use practices in tropical forest regions that are contributing to global climate change.
Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest finance (LEAF) Coalition
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The LEAF Coalition (LEAF) is an ambitious new public-private initiative designed to accelerate climate action and reduce deforestation by providing results-based finance to countries committed to protecting their tropical forests.
IDB Amazon Bioeconomy and Forests Management Multi-Donor Trust Fund
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The AMDTF supports national and subnational entities, and public and private entities, in the Amazonian countries to plan, design and implement investments to halt deforestation, increase forest restoration and conservation, and improve sustainable landscape management and climate change mitigation and adaptation in the Amazon region.
Amazon Fund
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Amazon Fund is a REDD+ mechanism created to raise donations for non-reimbursable investments in efforts to prevent, monitor and combat deforestation, as well as to promote the preservation and sustainable use in the Brazilian Amazon. The UK committed to funding £115 million total for results-based finance at $5 per tonne and £3.5 million for technical assistance, of which £2 million will be destined for GIZ Action for Forests programme. £1.5 million is for MEL.
Accelerating Innovation Monitoring For Forests (AIM4Forests)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Programme supports 20 countries with institutionalised National Forest Monitoring Systems that inform domestic policy and decision-making and provide high-integrity MRV through modern monitoring technologies and innovative approaches. The Programme alos aims to enable participation in REDD+ and emerging carbon finance opportunities, and drive down global emissions from the forest and land-use sector, while strengthening AFOLU contribution in NDCs.
Forest and Climate Leaders Partnership (FCLP)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Under the UK Presidency of COP26, over 140 governments signed the Glasgow Leaders Declaration on Forests and Land Use, committing to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030 while promoting sustainable development. To support this, the UK helped establish the Forest and Climate Leaders’ Partnership (FCLP), a coalition focused on achieving the goals of the declaration. The FCLP provides a platform for political action and targeted 'Action Areas' to address barriers to forest protection. This program will fund the establishment of a Secretariat to support FCLP members from 2024-2030, including the development of ‘Forest Country Packages’ to enhance financial impact for forests.
BioCarbon Fund (BioCF)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Fund will provide technical assistance for REDD+ implementation and measures which improve the enabling environment for private sector investment; offer a finance for Verified Emission Reductions associated with avoided deforestation; and secures private sector finance, for example through purchasing commitments for sustainable commodities produced in the jurisdiction (sometimes called ‘offtake agreements’). Each country programme under the BioCarbon Fund will operate at the jurisdiction-scale, that is within a landscape-wide area that is governed by a single political jurisdiction.
Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) was established in 2008 to assist developing countries in their efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and foster conservation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks (all activities commonly referred to as "REDD+") by providing value to standing forests. The FCPF is a multi-donor Trust Fund managed by the World Bank. It has two separate but complementary funding mechanisms — the Readiness Fund and the Carbon Fund.
REDD Early Movers (REM) Programme
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The REDD+ Early Movers (REM) Programme, currently operational in Latin America, aims to reward countries or jurisdictions considered as pioneers in forest protection and climate mitigation. It targets countries or regions that have already taken ambitious actions to protect forests and provides conditional payments upon verified emission reductions from avoided deforestation (REDD+). Results-based payments in the REM Programme are invested according to a “benefit-sharing strategy” that has been jointly agreed by partners.
The Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes (ISFL) - Bio Carbon Fund
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
A multilateral project administered by the World Bank which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the land use sector through sustainable landscape management, whilst improving the livelihoods of forest communities. The ISFL combines upfront technical assistance with results-based finance which rewards countries which implement landscape-level approaches that reduce emissions from the forest and land-use sector. ISFL works with 5 countries: Colombia, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Mexico and Zambia. Defra is supporting programmes in Indonesia and Zambia with upfront finance and potentially all countries with results based finance.
The eco.business Fund
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The eco.business fund is a public-private partnership investment fund which aims to shift incentives in financial institutions (i.e. Banks) towards investing in nature, by embedding social and environmental risk into investment decisions, catalysing transformational change in the financial sector. The fund will increase lending to businesses which incorporate sustainable practices that contribute to biodiversity conservation, sustainable use of natural resources, climate change mitigation and adaptation to its impact across South America: Ecuador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Colombia, Panama, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru.
UK Blue Carbon Fund
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The Fund will promote the sustainable management, conservation and restoration of mangrove habitats by developing and embedding operational blue carbon markets across the Caribbean and Latin America that provide local communities with a sustainable income and assist in moving low-income countries towards low-emission, climate-resilient development.
Land Degradation Neutrality Fund
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The LDN Fund invests in projects which reduce or reverse land degradation and thereby contribute to ‘Land Degradation Neutrality’. The LDN Fund is co-promoted by the Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and Mirova. It is a public-private partnership using public money to increase private sector investment in sustainable development. The fund invests in sustainable agriculture, forestry and other land uses globally. The Fund was launched at the UNCCD’s COP 13 in China in 2017.
Investments in Forests and Sustainable Land Use - Phase 2
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme aims to catalyse a transformational shift towards sustainable production of the globally traded agricultural commodities currently associated with deforestation.
Productivity for Prosperity (P4P)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Productivity for Prosperity is a sustainable economic transformation programme that will increase labour productivity and climate-resilience in Tanzania’s job-creating sectors. It will achieve this through private sector development (investment facilitation, trade facilitation and building capabilities of firms) and business environment reform (supporting proportionate and predictable regulation). P4P will dovetail with the UK’s external engagement and influencing activities in Tanzania. P4P will initially prioritise the agroprocessing and horticulture sectors, and will provide flexible support to bolster the UK’s current and future prosperity objectives.
Governance foundations to sustain forests and people: Forest Governance, Markets and Climate Phase II
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will work at international and national levels to address governance failures by both government and market to curb deforestation, restore degraded lands and eco-services whilst delivering benefits and sustaining livelihoods for people in developing countries. It will build from the experience of an earlier global programme, expanding it to address new threats to forests such as mining and encouraging national climate strategies to focus on forests.
Investing in Nature, Forests and Land Use (INAFOLU)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To increase levels of investment – public, private, domestic, and international – in Indonesia’s forests and terrestrial biodiversity in support of the Government of Indonesia’s (GoI) ambitions for economic and social development in ways that directly contribute to its international climate commitments. The programme will achieve this by partnering with Indonesia to increase investment in conserving intact forests, restoring peat and other degraded lands, accelerating reforestation, preventing fires, tackling the key drivers of deforestation, and facilitating growth of ‘forest-friendly’ small and medium-scale businesses. INAFOLU will form the UK’s principal contribution in the forest and land sector towards Indonesia’s commitment to reducing its carbon emissions by 43% against ‘business as usual’ growth, a commitment which is described by the Government of Indonesia as its ‘high ambition scenario’ and which is conditional on sufficient international support.
ARCAN - Africa Regional Climate and Nature Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The impact will be increased resilience of Africa economies and communities to the impacts of a changing climate, sustainable and environmentally sound economic development and low carbon green energy generation and access.
Supporting Environmentally-friendly Mineral Extraction and Sustainable Trade in Agriculture (SEMESTA)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Indonesia is making efforts to decouple commodity production from deforestation, most successfully in the timber sector with its timber legality system (SVLK). A similar approach is in train with Indonesia’s palm oil standard, Indonesia Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO). Learning from the timber experience, the programme will support Indonesia’s sustainable commodities production, including for exports to the UK. SEMESTA will address concerns that undermine sustainability, including upgrading ISPO by establishing a licensing unit and supporting the merger of regulations and to establish national system for other strategic commodities, including nickel. The programme will also support further necessary strengthening of SVLK, including on geolocation.
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