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PEOPLES FORESTS PARTNERSHIP
FINANCING FOREST LIVELIHOODS FOR CLIMATE AND BIODIVERSITY
OPEN LETTER:
GLobal south voices in support of RIGHTS-BASED redd+
"If REDD+ ceased to exist, I'm sure the Global North would
try to come up with some other system. We've spent so
many years trying to learn everything about REDD+, to
make our voices heard, and to make this idea actually
work on the ground for Indigenous Peoples and Local
Communities in a way with high integrity.
We don't have time to start over again. The impacts
of climate change are devastating for us now; we are
experiencing floods, droughts, and people having no food
security. We have developed REDD+ as a critical tool."
Deborah Sanchez
Former Interim Executive Director of PFP and current Director of CLARIFI
Indigenous Peoples, traditional owners and local communities and Afro-descendants (IP, LC and AD) are crucial partners to achieve global climate goals. Their stewardship, leadership and active participation has successfully protected forests for generations. To scale forest protection, we need to recognize and invest in these communities.
TO THE STEWARDS OF THE WORLD'S FORESTS:
WE HEAR YOUR CALL
The loss of forest ecosystems, biodiversity, and forest societies continues globally despite decades of conservation finance. Forest communities hold the solutions to protecting the world's most biodiverse ecosystems yet less than 1% of global climate finance is reaching IP, LC and AD.
To our forest community friends, partners, and others who have inspired this partnership, we hear you.
The Peoples Forests Partnership was formed to support forest communities’ call for their right to participate equitably in climate and conservation finance.
HOW TO ENGAGE
We welcome IP, LC and AD, as well as corporates, NGOs, climate financiers, forest governments, donors, members of the public, and all willing stakeholders to join us in driving direct financing to forest communities for climate and biodiversity.
IP, LC and AD are specifically invited to be a part of our partnership.
executive committee
INTERIM EXECUTIVE TEAM
Our Team.
Beto Borges
Forest Trends
Debora Batista
Forest Trends
Melissa Panhol
Forest Trends
Gustavo Sanchez
AMPB
Anna Lehmann
Executive Director
Denis Ndeloh
CBBM
Pasang Dolma Sherpa
CIPRED
Leticia Labre
Everland
Bob O'Sullivan
GreenCollar
Kanyinke Sena
IPACC
Mateo Estrada
OPIAC
Regan Pairojmahakij
RECOFTC
Mike Korchinsky
Wildlife Works
about
FOUNDING MEMBERS
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about
NEW MEMBERS
At COP 27, the Peoples Forests Partnership welcomed 4 new organizations. In March of 2023, we welcomed 5 more organizations, and in November 2023 the first new company member. In August 2024 the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA), which represents 511 Indigenous communities, joined the partnership.
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