Non-Profit focused on low carbon growth in developing countries emphasizing sustainable management of tropical forests.Coalition for Rainforest Nations: The objective is ambitious – forested tropical countries collaborating to reconcile forest stewardship with economic development.Who: Developing Nations with rainforests -- partnering with Industrialized Nations that support fair trade and improved market access for developing countries.What: Facilitate new and improved revenue streams in order to underpin community-driven environmentally sustainable economic growth.How: Reform international regulatory, trade and economic frameworks to effectively align market incentives with sustainable outcomes.

The REDD+ Partnership serves as an interim platform for its partner countries to scale up actions and finance for initiatives to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) in developing countries.To that effect, the Partnership aims to take immediate action, including improving the effectiveness, efficiency, transparency and coordination of REDD+ initiatives and financial instruments, to facilitate among other things knowledge transfer, capacity enhancement, mitigation actions and technology development and transfer.

The UN-REDD Programme is the United Nations collaborative initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) in developing countries. The Programme was launched in 2008 and builds on the convening role and technical expertise of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The UN-REDD Programme supports nationally-led REDD+ processes and promotes the informed and meaningful involvement of all stakeholders, including Indigenous Peoples and other forest-dependent communities, in national and international REDD+ implementation.The Programme supports national REDD+ readiness efforts in 46 partner countries, spanning Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America, in two ways: (i) direct support to the design and implementation of UN-REDD National Programmes; and (ii) complementary support to national REDD+ action through common approaches, analyses, methodologies, tools, data and best practices developed through the UN-REDD Global Programme. By July 2012, total funding for these two streams of support to countries totaled US$117.6 million. For an overview of current funds and budget allocations, consult the Programme’s Multi-Partner Trust Fund Gateway.

The four strategic objectives of the FCPF:To assist countries in their REDD+ efforts by providing them with financial and technical assistance in building their capacity to benefit from possible future systems of positive incentives for REDD+.To pilot a performance-based payment system for REDD+ activities, with a view to ensuring equitable benefit sharing and promoting future large-scale positive incentives for REDD+.Within the approach to REDD+, to test ways to sustain or enhance livelihoods of local communities and to conserve biodiversity.To disseminate broadly the knowledge gained in the development of the Facility and the implementation of Readiness Preparation Proposals (RPPs) and Emission Reductions Programs (ERPs).The FCPF's funding mechanisms:The FCPF has two separate but complementary funding mechanisms — the Readiness Fund and the Carbon Fund — to achieve its strategic objectives. Both funds are underpinned by a multi-donor fund of governments and non-governmental entities, including private companies that make a minimum financial contribution of $5 million. Contributors to the Readiness Fund are known as Donor Participants.Contributors to the Carbon Fund are known as Carbon Fund Participants.Developing countries participating in the FCPF (both funds) are known as REDD Country Participants.

The Prince’s Rainforests Project (PRP) was set up in 2007 by HRH The Prince of Wales following reports from leading climate change experts confirming the high level of carbon emissions caused by tropical deforestation, with the goal of “making the forests worth more alive than dead”.“I have endeavoured to create a global public, private and NGO partnership to discover an innovative means of halting tropical deforestation. Success would literally transform the situation for our children and grandchildren and for every species on the planet.”- HRH The Prince of Wales