The TFFF is a robust and innovative mechanism for public and private investment that directs resources directly to those who conserve forests – ensuring at least 20% goes to indigenous peoples and local communities. It will mobilise large-scale capital with perennial flows to preserve our biodiversity. As we approach COP30, we need the boldness to create a new climate-forest pact, helping to create a new cycle of prosperity, with the courage and disruptive capacity to change – before we are abruptly changed by climate adversity.”

- Marina Silva, Minister Environment and Climate Change, Brazil, June 2025

"We know that tropical forests are a source of climate stability because they retain carbon and guarantee water cycles—the flying rivers in the Amazon that we know so well today in Brazil, for example. More than 80% of the world's terrestrial biodiversity is found in tropical forests. Therefore, they provide ecosystem services to humanity globally. What the TFFF seeks is for the world to remunerate part of these services. It means remunerating forests as the basis of life, as the basis of the economy, for our well-being."

- André Aquino, special advisor to the Ministry of the Environment (MMA), Brazil

"For those who own an area, there's a kind of opportunity cost—to use an economic term. They could, in theory—and it's not a good option—consider destroying that area to raise cattle or plant a plantation. For those who own that area, the money, the value of that preserved forest, isn't as visible. The TFFF is creating a solution to make it clear that the idea that standing forests are worth more than those cut down isn't just a slogan. We're truly going to monetize, make viable, and pay for the forest preservation service,"

- Rafael Dubeux, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Finance

“The TFFF supports countries that already have low deforestation by increasing resources for their conservation, sustainable use, and restoration programs and policies"

- Garo Batmanian, Director General of the Brazilian Forest Service.

"TFFF is a source of pride that in Brazil, in Belém, our country is launching an initiative that originated in the Global South itself. It is of historic importance,"

- Ambassador Mauricio Lyrio, Secretary of Climate, Energy, and Environment.

“TFFF is an unprecedented tool in this fight against climate change, more than being a mechanism to protect a specific biome, TFFF is a mechanism aimed at preserving life on Earth. Tropical forests provide essential ecosystem services for regulating the climate, are home to the world’s largest freshwater reserves, store oxygen, and absorb carbon dioxide; their degradation would compromise the global climate balance in an irreversible manner. So today, Brazil is going to lead by example to be the first country to commit US$1 billion to the TFFF.”

- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil