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Belém, Brazil, 15 November 2025 – On the sidelines of UNFCCC COP30, underway in Belém, the Government of Brazil announced a new digital platform to help tropical forest countries access the newly established Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF).
The TFFF Country Access Platform will serve as a hub to provide knowledge, connecting tropical forest countries with technical partners to support them to meet TFFF eligibility criteria, and facilitating South-South collaboration. The Platform is open to all countries, voluntary and will function independently from the governing structures of the TFFF.
Alongside the UN Development Programme (UNDP), a strong coalition of partners have committed to this effort, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the World Resources Institute (WRI), the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities (GATC).
The Platform builds on the historic launch of the TFFF which took place on 6 November, at the COP30 Leaders’ Summit in Belém, Brazil, where 53 countries endorsed the TFFF, including 34 tropical forest countries. Led by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil has played a catalytic role in designing and championing the TFFF, an innovative blended finance mechanism that will pay countries to keep forests standing. The Facility has already mobilized over US$5.5 billion in initial commitments, including $3 billion from Norway, $1 billion each from Brazil and Indonesia, and pledges from France, Portugal, the Netherlands, and others.
The TFFF represents a paradigm shift in global environmental finance, blending sovereign, philanthropic, and private capital to create a permanent mechanism to fund forest conservation. It guarantees that at least 20 percent of funds will flow directly to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, recognizing their central role in forest stewardship.
At the request of the Government of Brazil, UNDP and the organization Systemiq will design, establish, and manage the TFFF Country Access Platform. The role of the Platform is to streamline country requests for support to meet the TFFF eligibility criteria and to promote efficient, effective and transparent support.
Since October 2024, UNDP has been supporting tropical forest countries to co-design and launch the TFFF and will continue to accompany countries through the Country Access Platform – from building the necessary financial and institutional frameworks to manage and disburse funds, to accessing their first TFFF payments.
“Built on strong Global South leadership and global solidarity, the TFFF marks a new era in climate finance. The new Country Access Platform is a major step toward ensuring tropical forest nations can access the predictable finance they need to keep forests standing”, said Marcos Neto, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Director of UNDP's Bureau for Policy and Programme Support. "UNDP congratulates Brazil for its bold leadership and stands ready to provide support in bringing the Tropical Forest Forever Facility to life.”
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UNDP has a proven track record of supporting countries to access performance-based forest financing, building financial and institutional governance for benefit sharing, and ensuring direct finance to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities through REDD+ payments for ecosystem services, and public-private finance mechanisms. UNDP will bring the expertise of the Climate Promise and the UN-REDD Programme, know-how supporting countries to access large-scale results-based payments from the Green Climate Fund, and experience in direct financing through UNDP’s Small Grants Programme and other initiatives.