LEAF Coalition
A unique public-private initiative scaling finance to halt and reverse tropical deforestation
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LEAF Coalition
Emergent is the coordinator of the LEAF Coalition, a unique public-private partnership bringing together forest governments, the private sector, donor governments, Indigenous Peoples and local communities and civil society to raise and deploy the finance needed to tackle deforestation at scale.
To date, LEAF has raised over $1 billion in public and private sector commitments and signed agreements with forest governments worth up to $300 million.
LEAF's results based payments model incentivizes action at scale, with advance payments available to help forest governments overcome financial and technical barriers to accelerate access to climate finance.
The LEAF Coalition only purchases high-integrity forest carbon credits from jurisdictional programs that meet the stringent criteria of the robust and independent ART TREES Standard, guaranteeing the highest levels of environmental integrity and social safeguards.
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LEAF also employs strict buyers’ criteria to ensure that all action taken by buyers is in addition to science-aligned action to decarbonize value chains, supporting the goals of the Paris Agreement.
LEAF Coalition Impact at a Glance
$1B
of public-private finance committed
5
deals with forest governments
30+
major corporations
$300m+
of nature-based climate finance in signed LEAF Coalition agreements
28
eligible proposals from forest governments
102m
hectares covered by programs supported by LEAF Coalition agreements
LEAF Coalition Events
Closing the Forest Funding Gap: Driving Real Impact for People, Climate & Nature
Climate Week NYC, September 2025
Emergent and the LEAF Coalition showed what we do best at New York Climate Week: bringing forest country leaders, Indigenous voices, corporates, donors, and civil society partners together to focus on what needs to be done to mobilize finance for large scale, government-led forest preservation programs, known as Jurisdictional REDD+ (JREDD) .
Investing in Nature for the Future: The Business Case for Forests
London Climate Action Week, June 2025
At London Climate Action week Salesforce, the LEAF Coalition, Emergent, 1t.org, Symbiosis and the U.K. Government convened public, private, and grassroots leaders to share why investing in forests is not only a climate imperative - it’s smart business.
Advancing High-Integrity Markets for Climate, People and Nature
COP29, November 2024
On Nature, Indigenous peoples and Gender day at COP29 in Baku, Emergent, the LEAF Coalition and the U.S. State Department hosted a session exploring the critical issue of advancing high social integrity in voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) at the U.S. Center pavilion.
