State of Finance for Forests (SFF) 2025 Report:
The first State of Finance for Forests (SFF) 2025 Report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) highlights that global investments in forests must triple by 2030 to achieve climate, biodiversity, and land restoration goals.
- Only US billion was invested in forests in 2023—91% public, 9% private—while US billion is needed annually by 2030 to meet global climate goals.
- Governments contributed US billion, led by China and the U.S., with tropical forest nations accounting for just 17% of domestic spending, showing major regional disparities.
- Private Forest finance was US billion, mainly via certified commodity chains (39%) and impact investing (23%), while high-risk tropical commodities got minimal funds despite causing 97% of global deforestation.
- Environmentally damaging agricultural subsidies reached US billion in 2023, and banks financed US trillion to firms with deforestation risk—vastly exceeding green investments.
- Achieving Rio Convention targets requires expanding 1 billion ha by 2030, with protected forests and avoided deforestation needing US billion annually, while reforestation requires US billion.
