For over two decades, EDF has partnered with Indigenous groups in Brazil — like the Kayapó — to ensure they benefit financially for protecting the tropical forests they call home. By saving their forests from logging and other destructive activities, they can earn valuable, high quality carbon credits that can be sold to companies as a way to meet their climate goals.

The support of EDF members like you has made these accomplishments possible:

• In 2021, EDF spearheaded the creation of LEAF (Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest finance) to save large-scale tropical forests and bring valuable economic support to the Indigenous People who defend them. LEAF’s ultimate goal: To end all tropical forest loss by 2030.
• In 2022, EDF, partner groups and Indigenous Peoples’ organizations developed the Tropical Forest Credit Integrity Guide for Companies to ensure carbon credits restore and protect tropical forests and benefit local communities.

Steve Schwartzman, EDF’s senior director of tropical forest policy, says it best: “There is no way to stabilize the climate without protecting tropical forests… We know living forests are the best technology for getting and keeping carbon out of the atmosphere.”

Will you donate by midnight tonight to claim your $3-for-$1 World Rainforest Day match and make four times the difference for tropical forests and our climate?
 
Thank you for protecting rainforests,

Anne Russell Gregory
Manager, Online Member Engagement