Luxembourg will join the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF), a fund to preserve global tropical forests launched by Brazil during the UN Cop 30 climate summit, Luxembourg's environment, climate and biodiversity minister Serge Wilmes said.
It will contribute €50mn ($57.7mn) in the Tropical Forest Investment Fund (TFIF) — the TFFF's financial arm — from 2026-2030 through its Luxembourg's Climate and Energy fund. It also expects to maintain a long-term annual contribution to TFIF after 2030, but it did not specify the value nor length.
TFFF aims to preserve tropical global forests and help pay developing countries $4/hectare (ha) for preserved tropical forests. The goal is to raise $125bn for the fund to protect 1bn ha (10mn km²) of tropical forests globally.
Several countries backed TFF during Cop 30, such as Norway, Germany, Indonesia, France, Colombia, the Netherlands and Portugal. These countries, along with Brazil and Australia's Minderoo Foundation, had pledged a combined $6.7bn, according to Brazilian government officials.
Norway's commitment to TFFF hinges on several conditions, such as that the fund mobilize at least NKr100bn ($10.55bn) by the end of 2026.
The TFFF and other initiatives to combat deforestation, such as the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) framework, can generate a combined $9bn/yr to combat deforestation, Brazilian environment minister Marina Silva said in 2025.
But the fund has been criticized by international environment groups for not addressing the impacts of agriculture, mining and hydrocarbon extraction in deforestation.

