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Scaling Forest Finance to Protect Tropical Forests
Emergent coordinates the LEAF Coalition, a global public-private partnership mobilizing finance at scale to tackle deforestation.
LEAF brings together forest governments, companies, donor governments, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, and civil society to deliver large-scale impact.
Built for Scale, Integrity, and Impact
A Model Designed for Scale
LEAF uses a results-based payment model to incentivize action at scale.
Advance payments are available to help forest governments overcome financial and technical barriers, accelerating access to climate finance.
High-Integrity by Design
LEAF only purchases high-integrity jurisdictional carbon credits that meet the rigorous requirements of the ART TREES standard.
This ensures strong environmental integrity and robust social safeguards.
Aligned with Global Climate Goals
All LEAF buyers must meet strict criteria to ensure their participation supports - and does not replace - science-aligned decarbonization.
This ensures that finance for forests is additional and contributes to the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Emergent & LEAF: Impact at a Glance
$1B
of public-private finance committed
6
deals with forest governments
30+
major corporations
$300m+
of nature-based climate finance in signed LEAF Coalition agreements
28
eligible proposals from forest governments
102m
hectares covered by programs supported by LEAF Coalition agreements
LEAF Coalition Events
Closing the Forest Funding Gap: Driving Real Impact for People, Climate & Nature
Climate Week NYC, September 2025
Emergent and the LEAF Coalition showed what we do best at New York Climate Week: bringing forest country leaders, Indigenous voices, corporates, donors, and civil society partners together to focus on what needs to be done to mobilize finance for large scale, government-led forest preservation programs, known as Jurisdictional REDD+ (JREDD) .
