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With the final steps to operationalize Peru’s new REDD+ financial mechanism completed, Norway will be transferring the anticipated USD 10 ...

From March 27 to March 28th five Peruvian Ministers and five Governors from the Amazon region, along with the Ambassadors ...

Joint press statement between Marina Silva, Brazil’s Minister of Environment and Climate and Espen Barth Eide, Norway’s Minister of Climate ...

During his visit to Brazil, Minister of Climate and Environment, Mr. Espen Barth Eide announced that NICFI’s Satellite Data Program ...

From March 19 to March 25, Norway’s Climate and Environment Minister Espen Barth Eide is in Colombia and Brazil. The ...

To stay within our climate targets we must halt tropical forest loss within this decade. A well-functioning, high-quality forest carbon ...

At the start of the new year, I am excited to see groundbreaking political momentum to protect rainforests. Combined with ...

At his first day in office, President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva reaffirmed the incoming government’s ambitions to halt deforestation, ...

The LEAF coalition is a private-public collaboration to mobilize large-scale funding for forest lands and jurisdictions capable of reducing and ...

In December 2022, the world agreed to a new landmark global deal to protect nature. Its success depends on action ...

Norway congratulates Guyana as the first country to sell ART certified carbon credits for protecting its rainforest.

At COP27 the Peruvian Environmental Protection Minister Mr. Wilbert Gabriel Rozas Beltran and Norway’s Minister of Climate and Environment Mr. ...

World Leaders from 26 countries and the EU came together at the UN Climate summit (COP27) to launch the Forests ...

Colombia’s government has launched an emergency plan to stop deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. The ambitious strategy consists of working ...

The Contribution Agreement, following the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Indonesia and Norway (Partners) in September 2022, ...

Ecuador is making an important effort to reduce deforestation. The efforts are crucial for the planet’s climate and biodiversity. Norway ...

The COP26 Presidency is inviting world leaders to come together at COP27 to establish a new Partnership, which will accelerate ...

Indonesia and Norway enter into a new bilateral climate and forest partnership to recognize Indonesia’s impressive results to date and ...

In August, the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) announced its first payment of $16.4 million to Costa Rica for reducing ...

Guyana’s largest ever solar power projects will be financed thanks to the country’s low deforestation levels, following a landmark forest ...

As part of a major international climate alliance, Peru, Germany, Norway, UK and the US are stepping up efforts to ...

An INTERPOL-coordinated operation has recovered more than 80 truckloads of illegal timber from forests across Latin America and the Caribbean.

On her first day as Deputy Director of NICFI, Dyveke Rogan boarded a plane to Bogotá to learn about deforestation ...

The Oslo Tropical Forest Forum (OTFF) will be held in Oslo on June 21-22, the first in-person conference since 2018 ...

Rainforests was one of the top agenda items when US Climate Envoy John Kerry visited Oslo on Friday, May 6 ...

Today, on the International Day of Forests, the NICFI is pleased to announce that NICFI’s Satellite Data Program is extended ...

The NICFI Satellite Data Program and Google have joined forces to improve the monitoring of the world’s tropical forests.

A growing number of private sector actors are using high-resolution satellite imagery to deliver on their sustainability strategies. Among them, ...

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The &Green Fund signs loan agreement with Colombian Hacienda San José to scale up their more sustainable business model for ...

This first edition will take stock of the breakthroughs for tropical forests coming out of the UN climate summit in ...

Satellite data can be a key weapon in the fight against tropical deforestation, but demands high technical skills and powerful ...

Following continued reductions in deforestation, Norway expands its results-based payments to Ecuador and pays up to USD 24 million. 70 ...

Peru has stepped up efforts to reduce deforestation in the Amazon through the major international forest and climate alliance with ...

It was all about forests on 2 November, the second day of the climate summit in Glasgow. Norway’s Prime Minister ...

A pioneer country in reducing deforestation, Costa Rica is rewarded up to USD 10 million for its performance to date. ...

An initiative worth up to $ 500 million to protect the world’s second largest rainforest – the Congo Basin rainforest ...

The LEAF Coalition, a public-private partnership for forest conservation, announced in Glasgow that it has mobilized $1 billion USD to ...

Two new global organizations – Delta Air Lines and PwC – have joined the LEAF Coalition, a large-scale public-private climate ...

The role of civil society is crucial for the preservation of the world’s tropical forest. Norway is now announcing 39 ...

News story | Date: 13/12/2019 Ecuador has significantly reduced the loss of its natural forests in the last years. The ...

Colombia has strengthened its position as a regional leader in forest conservation and sustainable development. To honour these achievements, Germany, ...

News story | Date: 27/06/2018 Organized criminals make 50-152 billion USD a year illegally cutting down invaluable tropical forests and their ...

News story | Date: 16/08/2017 The Governments of Norway and Ethiopia have taken an important step towards supporting Ethiopia’s climate friendly ...

Gabon is the first country in Africa to receive results-based payments for reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. The ...

New York, 22 September 2019 The country, whose forest covers close to 90 percent of its territory, receives breakthrough funding ...

News story | Date: 16/02/2019 Indonesia confirms that carbon emissions from deforestation declined in 2017. When the emission figures are ...

Press release | Date: 23/09/2014 Liberia and Norway today entered into a partnership to improve forest governance, strengthen law enforcement, and support ...

Today at the Leaders Summit on Climate a group of governments and companies announced the LEAF Coalition, an ambitious new ...

On Wednesday 23 September 2020, Norway’s Ministry of Climate and Environment entered into a contract worth up to NOK 400 ...

The European countries that make up the Amsterdam Declarations Partnership have renewed their commitment to eliminate deforestation in relation to ...

News story | Date: 02/07/2019 The Norwegian International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) has granted NOK 100 million (EUR 10.3 million) ...

After 10 years of hard work, deforestation in Indonesia is going down. Emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in Indonesia ...

The AndGreen Fund signs loan agreement with Marfrig, the world’s second largest beef producer, supporting the transition to a deforestation ...