Published by the Forest Declaration Assessment coalition, the 2025 edition tracks progress toward 2030 forest goals with a focus on finance and market signals, integrity developments, uptake of forest credits across VCM and compliance channels, and policy pathways (including Article 6) shaping investment into priority forest landscapes.
Biochar: Bottlenecks and Breakthroughs
Published by Supercritical, this report analyses the barriers and breakthroughs shaping biochar’s path to 2030 as a leading carbon-removal technology, highlighting financing gaps, feedstock challenges, and the need for diversified supply and bankable offtakes.
Room to Grow: The Economic Case for Forest Restoration in Brazil
Published by Orbitas, this report builds the economic case for large-scale forest restoration in Brazil, showing it could generate USD 141 billion and 350,000 jobs annually through smart policy, finance innovation, and integration of carbon, biodiversity and bioeconomy markets.
Forecasting the voluntary carbon market (March 2025)
AlliedOffsets introduces a forecasting model for the VCM, simulating credit demand under various market conditions through 2030. Scenarios reflect divergent buyer behavior, regulatory signals, and investor sentiment. The baseline scenario projects steady growth in retirements, while an optimistic scenario sees near 1 GtCO₂e retired annually by 2030. It identifies market levers (e.g. Scope 3 frameworks, policy alignment, pricing clarity) that could influence uptake. The model helps guide strategy for developers, buyers, and intermediaries navigating future carbon market dynamics.
Towards Nature Positive for the Ocean: Pathways for Corporate Contributions
Published by WWF, this report provides a science-based framework for corporate action to halt and reverse marine biodiversity loss. It adapts the SBTN AR3T model to the ocean context and details priority actions for four industries: offshore wind, shipping, coastal tourism and seafood. Each pathway combines avoidance, restoration and transformative partnerships with finance and policy levers to achieve nature-positive outcomes by 2030.
High-risk forests, high-value returns: The State of Finance for Forests
This report by UNEP calls for bold investment in high-integrity forest solutions across tropical regions. It finds that finance is not only insufficient but poorly targeted, flowing primarily to lower-risk geographies. It outlines how to redirect capital using guarantees, public-private co-investment, and reformed mandates to support frontline communities, Indigenous groups, and tropical governments.
State of Finance for Forests (SFF) report: Unlock. Unleash. Realizing forest potential requires tripling investments in forests by 2030
Published by UNEP, this report tracks global forest finance flows and gaps. With only US$84 billion mobilised in 2023, mainly public, it warns of a US$216 billion annual shortfall to 2030. The report urges governments to use sovereign green bonds, debt swaps and blended finance to crowd in private investment, while expanding integrity-based carbon markets and directing more funding to Indigenous and local communities.
REDD+: A vital tool to protect tropical forests and fight climate change
This report from the REDD+ Business Initiative makes the case for REDD+ as a proven, high-impact mechanism to conserve tropical forests. It outlines its evolution, governance structure, and benefits, including carbon reductions, biodiversity gains, and support for Indigenous communities.
Climate and nature risk report 2025
This Risilience report surveys 500+ sustainability and finance leaders on how large corporations are embedding climate and nature risk into business strategy. It finds growing board-level focus, but also major gaps in finance-grade modelling, Scope 3 integration, and quantifying nature risk.
Unlocking finance for nature-based carbon projects along the capital continuum
Nature-based carbon projects face acute early-stage finance gaps. This report applies the Capital Continuum Framework to match project risk profiles with appropriate financial instruments, from concessional capital and prepayments to credit-backed securitisation. It outlines how carbon finance can serve both catalytic and transitional roles, bridging high-impact landscapes to long-term sustainability. Backed by investor interviews and project case studies, it offers a structured pathway for unlocking finance at scale.










