We know nature’s ability to mitigate climate change and conserve biodiversity are intertwined. HIFOR is an innovative, scalable financial mechanism rooted in the underlying value of nature. Investing in it mitigates climate change, prevents biodiversity loss, and delivers socioeconomic benefits.
The HIFOR unit represents one hectare of healthy, high integrity tropical forest actively conserved within a large landscape for a decade. These units deliver far-reaching benefits, including the ongoing removal of CO2, regulation of regional rainfall, local and regional cooling, and protection of high levels of biodiversity.
High integrity tropical forests are some of the highest biodiversity ecosystems on earth.
Absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, supply rain downwind, and keep local and regional areas substantially cooler than they would be without them.
We identify the tropical forests with the highest integrity and consult with local stakeholders to determine if HIFOR is a good fit for them.
The HIFOR Initiative has two active pilot sites in a growing portfolio. The first is in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo. The second is in the Mamirauá and Amanã Sustainable Development Reserves in Amazonas, Brazil. Combined, these areas cover 4 million hectares of high integrity tropical forest, foster biodiversity, and sequester about 53 million tons of CO2 per decade.
The HIFOR Congo Project is in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, which covers 423,000 hectares of predominantly high integrity tropical forest in northern Republic of Congo.
The HIFOR Amazonas Project is across two Sustainable Development Reserves in the Central Amazonas Conservation Complex of Brazil, covering 3,623,406 hectares of high integrity tropical forest.