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Press Release- GREEN GIGATON CHALLENGE LAUNCHED
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GREEN GIGATON CHALLENGE LAUNCHED TO ACHIEVE ONE GIGATON OF EMISSION REDUCTIONS FROM AVOIDED DEFORESTATION BY 2025
London, 19 November 2020 - Emergent and the United Nations REDD Programme (UN-REDD) - supported by the Environmental Defense Fund, Forest Trends and the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions - launched today at the London Climate Action Week the Green Gigaton Challenge, a global initiative to catalyse funding for one gigaton of high-quality emissions reductions a year from forests by 2025.