Tropical deforestation drives climate change and biodiversity loss, with Indigenous Peoples and forest communities bearing the greatest costs. Across rainforest regions they face insecure land rights, expanding extractive industries, exclusionary conservation and increasing risks for defending their forest home. Climate and biodiversity goals will not be achieved without justice, equity and community leadership.

We will achieve this locally by supporting forest communities to secure tenure rights, challenge destructive industries, manage their forests and protect their environment. We will do so nationally and globally by fostering an increasingly empowered and self-sustaining civil society and Indigenous movement – building critical capacities, transferring technologies and strengthening strategic partnerships to unlock systemic change.