United States of America

Responses

Adaptation Mitigation

Sectors

LULUCF

Instruments

Direct Investment

Nature based solutions and ecosystem restoration

Economic

Climate finance tools

Governance

International cooperation Subnational and citizen participation

Keywords

Carbon Sink Wetlands

Plan to Conserve Global Forests: Critical Carbon Sinks

Executive

Plan

Passed in 2021

The Plan sets forth the U.S. approach to conserving critical global terrestrial carbon sinks, deploying a range of diplomatic, policy, and finance mechanisms. It sets a restoration goal by 2030 with hopes of emulations. It outlines the initial approaches the United States intends to deploy to achieve four key objectives:

Incentivize forest and ecosystem conservation and forest landscape restoration;
Catalyze private sector investment, finance, and action to conserve critical carbon sinks;
Build long-term capacity and support the data and monitoring systems that enhance accountability;
Increase ambition for climate and conservation action.

The plan focuses primarily on the Amazon, the Congo, and Southeast Asian forests. Subject to Congressional appropriations, by 2030 the United States intends to dedicate up to $9 billion of international climate funding to support these objectives.

Documents

Climate targets in this law

1 target

Restore at least an additional 200 million hectares of forests and other ecosystems

LULUCF | Fixed level target | Target year: 2030 | Base year: 2021