Brazil's Tropical Forest Forever Facility draws a USD 500 million pledge

26 October 2026

The Tropical Forest Forever Facility, the international financing mechanism conceived by Brazil and launched at the 30th UN Climate Change Conference in Belem in 2025, has drawn a fresh pledge of USD 500 million, announced on Monday by the Dutch government and to be paid out over ten years. With it the Netherlands joins a coalition that already includes Brazil, Norway, Luxembourg, Indonesia, Germany, France, Portugal and the United Kingdom. The fund works by selling securities that pay investors fixed, stable interest, while countries that keep and restore standing forest are rewarded. Payments are released only after satellite imagery confirms that deforestation has stayed below set thresholds. At least 20 per cent of each country's payment is to go to indigenous peoples and traditional communities, who protect forests directly. Its designers reckon the facility could protect more than 1 billion hectares of forest across more than 70 countries. Its fundraising goal stands at USD 125 billion or more: governments are to put up USD 25 billion, while the remaining USD 100 billion is to be sought from private investors.