What We Support
Our Priorities
We believe an equitable, climate-safe world can only be achieved through locally-led solutions complemented by critical shifts in global systems and power structures. From grassroots to global, we support these cross-cutting priorities:
Supporting Indigenous Peoples’, Afro-Descendant Peoples’, and local communities’ efforts to secure and exercise their land rights and tenure, manage their forests, and support their livelihoods.
Priorities by Geography:
Supporting effective environmental and social governance and policies while strengthening accountability to ensure equitable and sustainable management of forest resources and a just energy transition.
Priorities by Geography:
Supporting resilient, inclusive movements, narratives, and collective action on justice and rights, forest protection and regeneration, and climate resilience. Learn more
Priorities by Geography:
Supporting just economic transitions that strengthen equity and transparency, revitalize forest economies, and reverse forest loss, while mobilizing more accessible and effective finance for forests and communities.
Priorities by Geography:
Supporting shifts in agricultural production, consumption, and trade toward lower-emissions, climate-resilient alternatives that benefit people and the environment, and increasing the sustainability of infrastructure and extractive industries in ways that protect communities and nature.
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The Change We Support
This is a critical time for humanity and for our planet’s climate, forests, and diversity of life.
Tropical forest systems are essential for all life on our planet. These systems nourish a diversity of life, support thriving communities and cultures, and contribute to climate regulation and resilience. But worldwide, tropical forests are in decline due to unsustainable, exploitative, activities, often characterized by rights violations, threats to lives and livelihoods, and loss of biodiversity. Ultimately, the ongoing destruction of tropical forest systems perpetuates inequity and injustice and exacerbates the impacts of the climate crisis.
We believe we can rise to the challenge of the climate and biodiversity crises, and the intersecting justice and equity crises, only through profound change. Disrupting existing power structures and supporting diverse leaders and inclusive movements can boldly move us toward a just and climate-resilient world. Rather than sacrificing forests for short-term profits, regenerative tropical forest systems can build more equitable economies that secure all of our long-term wellbeing.
We focus on supporting the solutions needed for a world where thriving tropical forest systems, economic systems centered in equity and ecological health, and diverse and inclusive societies ensure global justice and climate-resilience.
