Climate Week NYC

Financing Forests at Scale: A New Era for Climate Action

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Plenary Session

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Join this plenary session with corporate leaders, forest governments and Indigenous representatives to mark the progress of large scale, government led programs to tackle deforestation. Explore what makes protecting forests one of the most compelling climate solutions available today: cost-effective mitigation at scale, delivering inclusive benefits for forests and communities. Hear from those leading the way and discover how to get involved and what is needed to accelerate change.​​​​​​​​​​​​

Interactive Roundtable: Taking the Next Step On Forest Protection

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Interactive Workshop

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​Follow up the plenary with this hands-on workshop to take a deeper dive into how companies are integrating large-scale forest protection into credible strategies. Engage face-to-face with the governments running these programs.

 

Help shape a prioritized agenda for forest protection and leave with practical insights to take back to your team.​​​​​​​​

Carbon Buyers Happy Hour: Get to Know High-Impact Buyer Alliances

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Informal Networking

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Join Emergent, Symbiosis, The Kinetic Coalition and Frontier to kick off Climate Week with informal drinks and networking.

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Learn more about how these advance marketing commitments are working to create systemic change by building markets for a range of high integrity carbon credits across, nature, energy and tech-based removals.

Beyond carbon payments: Understanding the co-benefits of Jurisdictional REDD+ benefit-sharing.

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Workshop

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This invitation-only workshop will bring together government representatives, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs), practitioners, and researchers to explore the broader benefits emerging from jurisdictional REDD+ benefit-sharing processes.

Who Benefits from Conserving Forests? From Participation to Climate Finance: Ecuador’s REDD+ Experience

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Panel Session

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This session will present Ecuador’s REDD+ Benefit Distribution Plan (BDP), developed through a participatory process led by the Ministry of Environment and Energy since 2022. The process brought together Indigenous Peoples, local communities, Afro-Ecuadorian and Montubio peoples, civil society, local governments, and other stakeholders to shape an approach grounded in safeguards, free, prior and informed consent (FPIC), inclusive governance, and equitable benefit-sharing.

30 years of FONAFIFO: Advancing Indigenous leadership and participatory forest conservation

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Panel & Discussion

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This session marks FONAFIFO’s 30th anniversary, tracing the evolution and impact of Costa Rica’s Payment for Environmental Services (PES) Program—one of the world’s earliest and most influential models of participatory conservation and forest finance.