Overview

Forest Trends works to protect critical ecosystems through creative environmental finance, markets, supply chains, and other incentive mechanisms. The organization addresses economic systems that do not value standing forests and their services by developing strategic approaches to conservation investment.

Mission and focus areas

Forest Trends aims to promote investments, markets, and payment mechanisms for a broad range of ecosystem services. Its primary focus areas include forests, climate, communities, water, biodiversity, investments, and sustainable agriculture.

Structure and governance

Forest Trends is a Washington, DC-based international non-profit organization. It builds diverse coalitions that include governments, local and indigenous communities, and businesses to ensure all stakeholders are engaged and benefit from conservation efforts.

Programs and offerings

Key initiatives include the Ecosystem Marketplace, which provides data and insights on environmental markets, and the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Program. Other flagship work includes the Forest-risk Commodity Dashboard, the Territorial Governance Facility, the EM Global Carbon Hub, and the Natural Infrastructure for Water Security Project. The organization publishes research and reports such as the “State of Private Investment in Nature.”