Forest Declaration Assessment submission on the COP30 Presidency Roadmap on Halting and Reversing Deforestation and Forest Degradation by 2030

The Forest Declaration Assessment submitted a formal response to the COP30 Presidency's call for inputs on the Roadmap for halting and reversing deforestation and forest degradation by 2030. The submission identifies systemic barriers and proposes high-impact, actionable measures across four clusters: ambition and planning, rights and governance, trade and real-economy incentives, and finance and financial systems.

• The Forest Declaration Assessment recommends that governments integrate forest goals into national climate and biodiversity plans, specifically by including emission targets for agriculture and mining in NDCs and addressing deforestation drivers in NBSAPs. It suggests that COP30 outcomes should explicitly reaffirm commitments to "phase out deforestation, forest degradation, and ecosystem conversion".
• The submission highlights that agricultural subsidies harming forests and other natural ecosystems total approximately USD 470 billion annually. It urges governments to repurpose these subsidies in line with the GBF Target 18 commitment to reduce harmful incentives by at least USD 500 billion per year by 2030.
• To address financial systemic barriers, the document calls for the deployment of catalytic public finance, the restructuring or cancellation of sovereign debt to break the "debt–deforestation cycle", and the establishment of supervisory expectations for financial institutions to disclose deforestation- and degradation-free targets.

APA

Matson, E. (2026). Forest Declaration Assessment submission on the COP30 Presidency Roadmap on Halting and Reversing Deforestation and Forest Degradation by 2030. Forest Declaration Assessment. https://forestdeclaration.org/submission-on-the-roadmap/

Chicago

Matson, Erin. Forest Declaration Assessment submission on the COP30 Presidency Roadmap on Halting and Reversing Deforestation and Forest Degradation by 2030. Forest Declaration Assessment, 2026. https://forestdeclaration.org/submission-on-the-roadmap/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{matson2026forest, author = {Matson, Erin}, title = {{Forest Declaration Assessment submission on the COP30 Presidency Roadmap on Halting and Reversing Deforestation and Forest Degradation by 2030}}, publisher = {Forest Declaration Assessment}, year = {2026}, month = apr, url = {https://forestdeclaration.org/submission-on-the-roadmap/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }