Cloud Forest and the Cloud Forest 25 (CF25) Initiative

Cloud Forests are mountain tropical forests generally found at the river headstreams and mostly covered with clouds.

• These forests serve as the storage of clean water for communities, industries and hydropower plants.
• Majority of Cloud Forest i.e., 90% are found in 25 developing countries in tropical regions which bears the disproportionate impact of climate change.
• CF25 is an Investment Initiative to bring countries, their creditors and multilaterals organizations together to accelerate, and consolidate the progress and scale such investment products.
• Finance Mechanisms includes water payments to create a mechanism for payments for ecosystem services from water users such as hydropower dams which ....