The Green Gigaton Challenge

At
London
Climate
Action
Week
on Thursday,
19th
November,
the
Emergent Forest
Finance
Accelerator
(Emergent) and
the
United
Nations
Collaborative Program
on
Reducing
Emissions
from Deforestation
and
Forest
Degradation
in Developing
Countries
(UN-REDD) launched
the
Green
Gigaton
Challenge: Bringing
REDD+
to
Scale
in
collaboration with
the
Environmental
Defense
Fund (EDF),
Forest
Trends,
and
the Architecture
for
REDD+
Transactions (ART). The
Green
Gigaton
Challenge
(GGC)
will aim
to
mobilize
funds
for
transacting
at least
one
(1)
gigaton
of
high-quality jurisdictional
REDD+
emission
reductions per
year
by
2025.

Read the full report HERE