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State of Finance for Forests report 2025
October 24 , 2025
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- The first State of Finance for Forests (SFF) report was released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
- In 2023, global investment in forests was estimated at US$84 billion.
- Annual investment must increase to US$300 billion by 2030 to meet climate and biodiversity goals.
- By 2050, required forest investment is projected to reach US$498 billion per year.
- This results in an annual investment gap of approximately US$216 billion.
- Private forest finance was US$7.5 billion in 2023, mainly directed to low-risk markets.
- Environmentally harmful subsidies totalled about US$406 billion in 2023.
- By November 2024, private financial institutions held US$8.9 trillion in active financing linked to companies with high deforestation risk.
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