Is the TFFF rainforest fund failing due to a lack of money?

The TFFF rainforest fund aims to make forest conservation more profitable than deforestation. But a lack of money may prevent it from getting off the ground. The world's tropical forests play a vital role , storing climate-damaging carbon dioxide and providing a home for an extremely large number of species — when they're intact.

More than 140 countries committed to halting global deforestation by the end of the decade at the 2021 UN climate change conference in Glasgow, but five years later, logging continues. In 2024 alone, more than 8 million hectares of forest were lost — an area 30 times larger than the country of Luxembourg. And since 1990, nearly 490 million hectares of forest have been wiped out.

More recently, the trend has shifted in the opposite direction. Deforestation in the Amazon region of Brazil decreased by 41% between August 2025 and 2026 to reach its lowest rate since records began. To ensure lasting protection, the Tropical Forest Forever Facility was launched last year at the COP30 climate conference in Belem, Brazil.