Belém, Brazil, November 14, 2025 – The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) and the Global EverGreening Alliance (GEA) have signed a Global Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), marking the beginning of a transformative partnership to advance nature-based solutions, climate resilience, and sustainable landscapes worldwide. 

This collaboration combines GGGI’s deep engagement with governments and expertise in compliance with carbon markets with GEA’s technical leadership in ecosystem restoration and voluntary carbon markets. Together, the organizations will deliver bankable projects that attract investment, enhance livelihoods, and contribute to national climate commitments and biodiversity conservation. 

Cooperation in support of GEA’s flagship Restore Africa program, targeting 1.8 million hectares of restoration and benefiting 1.5 million farming families across six African countries; and to achieve GEA’s global ‘Green Up to Cool Down’ campaign, aiming to capture 20 billion tons of CO₂ annually by 2050. 

Joint efforts already underway for development of a project on Regenerative Agroforestry in the Philippines, which seeks to restore 137,000 hectares and mobilize $5 million for agroforestry-and bamboo-based value chains. Beyond the Philippines, this partnership will explore opportunities across Asia and Africa, strengthen enabling environments for voluntary carbon markets, and develop robust MRV systems to ensure certification of high-quality credits. 

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“Together, GGGI and GEA can accelerate the pace of critically important nature-positive investments and create lasting impact for people and the planet,” said GGGI Executive Director Sang-hyup Kim.

GEA CEO Christopher Armitage stated, “This partnership with GGGI will help accelerate investment into nature-based solutions – restoring millions of hectares, strengthening resilient livelihoods, and empowering rural communities across Asia and Africa.”

About the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)

The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) was founded as a treaty-based international, inter-governmental organization in 2012 at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. GGGI supports its Member States in transitioning their economies toward a green growth model that simultaneously achieves poverty reduction, social inclusion, environmental sustainability, and economic growth. With 53 Member States and 30 Partner countries and regional integration organizations in the process of accession, GGGI delivers programs and projects in over 57 countries. These initiatives encompass developing innovative green growth solutions, technical support, capacity building, policy planning & implementation, and assistance in building a pipeline of bankable green investment projects, project financing, investments, and knowledge sharing. GGGI’s work contributes to its Member States’ efforts to fulfill the Sustainable Development Goals and the Nationally Determined Contributions to the Paris Agreement.

Global Evergreening Alliance (GEA) Organizational Profile  

The Global Evergreening Alliance is an international NGO that coordinates large-scale environmental restoration and sustainable agriculture projects in developing countries to combat land degradation, food insecurity, and poverty. The organization operates through a collaborative platform of member organizations and focuses on “EverGreen Agriculture” as a key solution, working to restore degraded lands, improve farmer livelihoods, and mitigate climate change.  

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