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Green gigaton challenge launched to achieve one gigaton of emission reductions from avoided deforestation by 2025

Press release | UN-REDD Programme
Thu, 19 Nov, 2020 · 1 min read

London, 19 November 2020 - Emergent and the United Nations REDD Programme (UN-REDD) - supported by the Environmental Defense Fund, Forest Trends and the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions - launched today at the London Climate Action Week the Green Gigaton Challenge, a global initiative to catalyse funding for one gigaton of high-quality emissions reductions a year from forests by 2025.