The inevitable forest finance investor opportunities

Climate policy will inevitably reverse historic losses in forest cover given the affordability and broader attractiveness of land-based emissions reductions. Net-zero target announcements will accelerate over the coming five years. These policies will rely heavily on ending deforestation and shifting to forest restoration as one of the world’s only massively scalable options for negative emissions. The Inevitable Policy Response (IPR), which models these expected policy developments in a Forecast Policy Scenario (FPS), results in a cessation of net forest cover loss by 2030, and a total of 350 Mha of afforestation and reforestation globally by 2050 (PRI, 2019).