We work with corporate, government and civil society partners to mobilize private sector investment in forest conservation as a climate solution. Protecting and restoring forests is one of the least expensive and most immediate ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and it creates multiple benefits for
local communities. We help our corporate partners invest in effective forest carbon projects and we partner to create policy and market incentives to encourage private sector investment in forest conservation at the scale needed to address the climate challenge.

Tropical deforestation is responsible for 17 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions—more than
all the world’s cars, trucks, planes, and ships combined. The world cannot solve the climate challenge
without protecting its remaining tropical forests and restoring forests on degraded lands. Because forest
conservation is one of the least expensive and most immediate ways to reduce emissions, it can provide
close to one half of the world’s needed emissions reductions through 2020. CI promotes a three-pronged
approach to corporate climate leadership in which companies reduce their carbon footprint through energy
efficiency, purchase environmentally sound renewable energy and invest in high-quality forest carbon
projects.

CI also led development of the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Standards, which ensure that voluntary
carbon projects provide lasting benefits to the climate, to local people, and to biodiversity. We’re working to
ensure that international and U.S. climate policies create incentives for private sector investment in forest
conservation to reduce emissions and promote sustainable development in tropical nations.

LEARN MORE: We are turning our strategy into action.

CONTACT:
Toby Janson-Smith
Senior Director Forest Carbon Markets
CI's Center for Environmental Leadership in Business