World Resources Institute (WRI) / Global Forest Watch

This award recognises WRI’s Global Forest Watch for transforming satellite data into actionable intelligence that directly underpins global decarbonisation. In 2025, the platform collaborated with Google DeepMind to publish an advanced AI-driven analysis of global forest loss drivers, revealing that 34% of all forest lost this century – and a staggering 61% of tropical primary rainforest loss – is permanent.

By making this high-resolution, near-real-time data freely available, GFW enables governments, corporations, and NGOs to target interventions with unprecedented precision, distinguishing permanent carbon-emitting land conversion from temporary disturbances.

As a public good, GFW is the indispensable monitoring backbone for zero-deforestation commitments, corporate supply chain transparency, and national carbon accounting under the UNFCCC. Its tools empower users across every country to hold actors accountable and direct restoration finance where it delivers the greatest carbon impact. For providing the verifiable open data layer that makes nature-based decarbonisation measurable and credible, Global Forest Watch receives this recognition.

Score: 87

Reference: https://www.wri.org/news/release-forest-loss-drivers