Tropical Forest Forever Facility, launched at COP30, receives USD 500 million pledge from the Netherlands
The commitment, which will be formally presented at COP31, brings the fund’s total pledges to USD 7.8 billion
The Netherlands announced a USD 500 million contribution to the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) on 26 October at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP17) in Yerevan, Armenia, and on the same day sent a letter to the Dutch Parliament setting out its plans. The pledge comes about a month after the United Kingdom announced plans to invest GBP 400 million (around USD 540 million) in the fund. TFFF has now reached US$7.8 billion in announced commitments.
The new pledges reflect the momentum the TFFF has built since Belém. When it was launched at the COP30 Leaders’ Summit in November 2025, the fund had more than USD 5.5 billion in announced commitments and the endorsement of 53 countries. Less than a year on, it has the political backing of 66 countries and the European Union. The Netherlands and the United Kingdom join a group of sovereign contributors that includes Norway (USD 3 billion), Germany (EUR 1 billion), Brazil and Indonesia (USD 1 billion each), France (EUR 500 million) and Luxembourg (EUR 50 million, plus a long-term annual contribution). Philanthropic supporters include the Minderoo Foundation (USD 10 million) and The Nature Conservancy (USD 5 million).
Brazil’s Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, João Paulo Capobianco, said: “Each new country that joins strengthens this collective effort and brings us closer to a historic paradigm shift: making it more advantageous to conserve forests than to destroy them".
Alongside the new pledges, the TFFF has made significant institutional progress this year. Its Charter has been approved and its Board established, made up of ten countries, including the Netherlands, and co-chaired by Brazil and Norway, with a representative of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities participating as an observer.
The TFFF Secretariat has also been set up, with an approved work plan and budget, and the Tropical Forest Investment Fund (TFIF), the initiative’s financial arm, has put its initial governance structures in place and will be based in Luxembourg. The co-chairs expect the TFFF to become fully operational within the next three years, culminating in the first conservation payments to participating countries.
TFFF
The Tropical Forest Forever Facility is an international financing mechanism designed to make standing tropical forests economically valuable by rewarding countries for conserving them. By leveraging capital markets to generate predictable, long-term financing for forest conservation and sustainable use, the initiative seeks to align economic development with the protection of some of the world’s most important ecosystems. A defining feature of the TFFF is its commitment directing a minimum of 20 percent of forest payments to Indigenous People and Local Communities, investing in effective stewards of tropical forest ecosystems.