TFFF At COP30

Approval of Foundational Governing Document Is a Key Step in TFFF’s Operationalisation

Governments, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, and the Private Sector Expand Support for Novel Forest Financing Mechanism

The Nature Conservancy announces $5 million and 12 institutional investors launch the TFFF Rotterdam Statement of Support London — The Tropical Forest Finance Facility (TFFF) has concluded a highly successful programme of meetings and events during London Climate Action Week, reinforcing its growing momentum and international relevance in mobilising finance at scale for tropical forest […]

Luxembourg will join the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) aiming to protect rainforests. Its financial arm will be hosted in Luxembourg. This was announced at the closing event of Luxembourg’s inaugural International Climate Finance Days on June 5 in which ministers from several countries participated: Brazil’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mauro Vieira, Luxembourg’s Minister of […]

For Immediate Release: May 14, 2026 New York – Representatives from several Tropical Forest Countries, partner countries, the World Bank and supporting institutions gathered at the margins of the 21st UN Forum on Forests for a dialogue on the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), hosted by co-chairs Brazil and Norway. The discussion underscored the strong […]

In the context of the bilateral meeting between the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the Federal Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, held in Hannover on 20 April 2026, both Governments reaffirmed their shared commitment to the conservation and sustainable use tropical forests as a central element in addressing global environmental challenges. […]

Norway Announces Co-Leadership Role with Brazil, Key Decision-Making Bodies Are Established, Meeting, and Advancing TFFF From Concept to Reality with Financial Support from Investor Countries For Immediate Release: April 16, 2026 Since the successful launch of the Tropical Forest Forever Facility at COP30, the Brazil-originated initiative now comprises five major investor countries and $6.5 billion […]

Davos, January 23, 2026 – The Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) convened global leaders, policymakers, and investors at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos this week to advance a new paradigm for climate and nature finance. Through a series of high-level sessions, TFFF was showcased as a groundbreaking global mechanism to protect […]

Berlin, 21 November 2025 – Over the coming ten years, Germany will be providing a total of one billion euros* for the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) that was initiated by Brazil. This was announced by Development Minister Reem Alabali Radovan and Environment Minister Carsten Schneider in Brazil at the 30th Conference of the Parties […]

The Tropical Forest Forever Facility signals a profound shift toward aligning investment and profit with conservation, write Marcos Vinicius Chiliatto, Vel Gnanendran and Michael Krake, Executive Directors from the World Bank Group. The Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) — a novel mechanism to reward tropical forest countries for keeping their forests standing — tackles the […]

Held in the gateway to the world’s largest tropical forest, COP30 concluded on November 22nd with more than US$ 6.7 billion in announced contributions to the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) and the endorsement of the Launch Declaration by 66 countries – both tropical forests countries and potential investors. Norway announced an investment of US$ 3 billion […]

On November 11, the National Council of Extractive Populations (CNS) of Brazil published the following statement: The National Council of Extractive Populations (CNS) has been closely following and contributing to the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) initiative, recognizing it as an innovative and promising financial instrument to support forest conservation and improve the living conditions […]

This statement was originally published by Minderoo. Minderoo Foundation has invested US$10 million (A$15.4 million) of catalytic capital to the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) – a landmark global initiative designed to mobilise long-term finance for the conservation and restoration of tropical forests. The TFFF, launched under the leadership of President Luiz Inácio Lula da […]

STATEMENT: Brazil Launches Tropical Forests Forever Facility Belem, Brazil (November 6, 2025) – Today, at the COP30 Leaders’ Summit in Belém, the Brazilian COP30 presidency formally launched the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF), a mechanism to provide long-term, predictable financing to countries that protect and sustainably manage their tropical forests.   After initial contributions from Brazil, Indonesia, Norway and Portugal […]

Originally shared by WWF here. The bold investments announced today lay the foundation for a long-term, scalable solution. Belém, Brazil, 6 Nov. 2025 – WWF congratulates Brazil and partners including Norway, Indonesia, France and the 34 endorsing tropical forest countries for their visionary leadership in launching the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF). The bold investments announced today have […]

During a lunch at the Belém Climate Summit, President Lula received leaders from over 30 countries , the UN Secretary-General, and a representative from the World Bank Today, at the COP30 Leader’s Summit, in Belém, the Tropical Forest Forever Facility was officially launched during a high-level event with leaders of more than thirty countries – both tropical […]

This article was first published on Reuters. BELEM, Brazil, Nov 6 (Reuters) – Norway will contribute about $3 billion to the Tropical Forests Forever Facility, a multilateral fund proposed to support global conservation of endangered forests, the government said on Thursday, during a leaders’ summit ahead of the U.N. climate talks known as COP30. The donation, first […]

The Economist Chopping down rainforests is daft. The social costs of clearing a typical patch of Brazilian Amazon are perhaps 30 times the benefits of rearing cows on it, by one estimate from 2023. The problem is, those costs, which include aggravating climate change, are spread across the entire world’s population, whereas the profits from cutting […]

Washington, D.C., 21st October — The World Bank today officially confirmed that it will serve as Trustee and Interim Host of the Secretariat for the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) – a new, landmark global initiative designed to secure and sustain the world’s tropical forests for generations to come. As trustee, the World Bank will […]

JOINT PRESS RELEASE Jakarta, 20 October 2025 – The Government of Brazil and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today co-hosted the Regional Workshop on the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) with ASEAN Member States and its stakeholders in Jakarta, Indonesia. The workshop was a milestone to strengthen multilateral cooperation and build momentum ahead of […]

Authored by Kirsten Schuijt – Director General of WWF International For too long, financial markets have perversely encouraged deforestation. Clearing trees for agriculture, mining or infrastructure yield more than keeping trees alive. This needs to change. Forests have an estimated value of $150 trillion – double the total value of all global stocks. Yet $409 billion in subsidies are […]

Liderado pelo governo brasileiro, o TFFF propõe um novo modelo de financiamento global para valorizar florestas em pé e garantir renda permanente aos países tropicais O Fundo Florestas Tropicais para Sempre (TFFF, na sigla em inglês), foi anunciado, neste sábado (4/10), como um dos finalistas de 2025 do Prêmio Earthshot, fundado pelo Príncipe William, do […]

BRAZIL, 4 October 2025: Brazil’s Tropical Forest Forever Facility is today revealed as a 2025 Finalist for the world’s most prestigious and impactful environmental award, The Earthshot Prize. The Tropical Forest Forever Facility joins a historic coalition of leaders recognised for driving climate action and inspiring everyone to build a better future for people and […]

On September 3rd, the Global Alliance for Territorial Communities released a public statement on the results of GATC’s collective advocacy in the TFFF 3.0. Below is the full statement: The Brazilian government recently launched the proposal for the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) in its Concept Note 3.0. We at the Global Alliance of Territorial […]

Announcement by President Lula at UN Event Marks the First Contribution to the Fund, Set to Launch Officially at COP30 in Belém New York, USA – Brazil has become the first country to announce a financial commitment to the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), a groundbreaking mechanism designed to deliver permanent, large-scale, performance-based payments to […]

Originally published in FAZ, authored by Katja Gelinsky Brazil aims to prevent deforestation with the help of a new international investment fund. Performance-based payments to tropical countries are planned. Climate protection and biodiversity conservation should be better integrated. This is the goal of the Brazilian government, as host of the next UN Climate Change Conference. […]

Following a series of high-level meetings in Bogotá (Colombia), Presidents and Heads of Delegations from Amazonian countries, civil society organisations, Indigenous Peoples representatives, and multilateral bodies came together to express strong regional support for the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF), an initiative led by Brazil and set to launch at COP30. During a press conference […]

This statement of support was originally published here. Plant-for-the-Planet welcomes improvements to the Tropical Forest Forever Facility and calls on the German government to invest and closely scrutinize its implementation. Deforestation globally is rising. WRI reported skyrocketing forest loss in 2024, with millions of high-integrity tropical forests lost due to deforestation and forest fires. We need fair, fast, and […]

Statement of Support From WFFF (originally posted here). WWF welcomes the evolution and improvements in the Concept Note 3.0 of the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), which reflects many of the recommendations made by stakeholders during the consultation process. We strongly call on supporter countries and private and philanthropic investors to mobilize capital to ensure a successful […]

This article was originally published in Climate Home News and is authored by Peter Graham. The world’s forests are essential to climate stability, biodiversity and sustainable development. Yet financial mechanisms to support their preservation remain limited. The expected launch of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) at the COP30 UN climate summit later this year […]

Brazil, 8th July 2025 – In a declaration adopted at the group’s summit, the bloc urges sponsor countries to announce “ambitious contributions” to the Tropical Forests Forever Facility In declarations adopted at the 17th BRICS Summit, held between Sunday (July 6) and Monday (July 7) in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), the group’s leaders expressed support […]

Opinion Editorial by Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin originally published in Environmental Finance. The Tropical Forest Forever Facility is a prime example of the innovation and cooperation needed to revive the development finance agenda, writes Mahmoud Mohieldin We are less than five years away from the deadline to meet the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, and we have […]

London, 26 June 2025 – The Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) marked a significant milestone in its mission to launch a new mechanism to conserve and restore the world’s tropical forests during London Climate Week 2025 (23–27 June). Through a series of high-level panels, bilateral meetings, and collaborative announcements, TFFF strengthened its global partnerships, highlighted […]

Opinion Editorial – Originally Published in Mongabay June 13th, 2025 – Tropical forests help regulate the global climate, host irreplaceable biodiversity and provide fresh water resources. Plus forests in general are the source of livelihoods for more than a billion people — so our very existence depends on them. However, because their value is not reflected in markets, these areas […]

New York, 6 May 2025 – Representatives from key tropical forest countries and partners from the Global South convened on the sidelines of the 20th session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF20), at the invitation of the Government of Brazil, to strengthen political engagement with the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), a global […]

New York, United States – At the twenty-fourth session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) proudly announced a formal co-design partnership with the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities (GATC), marking a pivotal step toward inclusive and equitable nature finance. The TFFF, a once-in-a-generation initiative proposed by […]

Context News, 28th April 2025 by Sonia Guajajara, Minister of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, and Juan Carlos Jintiach, Executive Secretary Global Alliance of Territorial Communities (GATC). Long before conservation became a global concern, Indigenous peoples and local communities lived in balance with nature. For us, tropical forests are not only carbon sinks or biodiversity hotspots; […]

On April 22nd, Uma Concertação pela Amazônia and Página2, in partnership with the Climate and Society Institute (iCS), hosted a virtual CSOs engagement webinar on the Tropical Forest Forever Facility.  The event discussed what the TFFF is, how it will work, and who will benefit. Experts from civil society and the Brazilian government presented the […]

April 22nd, 2025 Environmental Finance Carlos Alvarado Quesada, Former President of Costa Rica The $125 billion Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) is an innovative approach to economic development that is more nimble than the traditional development grant system, writes Carlos Alvarado Quesada A coalition of Global North and Global South nations is preparing to launch […]

London, United Kingdom—On March 10th and 11th, 2025, the government of Brazil convened representatives from the governments of Brazil, Colombia, France, Germany, Ghana, Indonesia,Malaysia, Norway, and the United Kingdom in London to gather input on the design of the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF). Representatives from the World Bank and the NGO community also attended. […]

October 3rd, 2024 The Independent Gabriela S Pessoa Environment ministers of the Group of 20 nations agreed Thursday to support the creation of funding sources for ecosystem services, acknowledging Brazil‘s proposal to establish a trust fund for forest conservation. The Brazilian initiative, known as the Tropical Forests Forever Facility, would reward tropical forest countries for […]

20th August, 2024 Folha The goal of zero deforestation in Brazil by 2030, proposed by President Lula (PT), is something that Environment Minister Marina Silva says she sees on the horizon Confident that the country will put an end to vegetation cutting, she has been working ahead to create a fund that rewards countries that […]

3rd October 2024 New York Times Manuela Andreoni What if financial markets treated trees like shareholders? Enter the Tropical Forests Forever Facility, a new fund that Brazil, which is home to about a third of the planet’s tropical forests, is pitching to the world and that would pay developing countries a fee for every hectare […]

22nd October, 2024 Project Syndicate Ajay Banga, Fernando Haddad, and Marina Silva WASHINGTON, DC/CALI, COLOMBIA – While forest carbon markets have created new revenue streams, they usually reward only those countries, communities, or project developers who are focused on reducing their emissions from deforestation. Something more is needed to tie financial rewards to forests that […]

16th December, 2024 Mongabay Mike DiGirolamo In 2023, at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, the Brazilian government proposed a new funding mechanism to help tropical nations keep their forests standing. They called it the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), and its incentive is relatively simple: using satellite monitoring in participating nations to determine which […]

23 December, 2024 Jenny Gonzales Mongabay Last month’s COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, left tropical forest countries frustrated yet again at the tepid promises and lack of urgency from the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters on tackling climate change. And yet even as this year’s meeting had been dubbed the “Climate COP” because of […]

30 January, 2025 World Resource Institute For more than 20 years, WRI has identified annual “stories to watch.” These are the year’s moments, issues and decisions that we believe will shape the future trajectory of the world. In the past, we’ve highlighted things like dangerous heat in cities, major elections and their effects on geopolitics, […]