Balancing forests and development: Addressing infrastructure and extractive industries, promoting sustainable livelihoods

The document highlights the need for significant new finance and improved forest governance to end natural forest loss and restore degraded lands. It specifically examines the risks that infrastructure and extractive industries, driven by the global transition to low-carbon technologies, pose to forests, drawing on data from the CDP's forest module and the NYDF Goal 3 progress assessment.

• Ending natural forest loss necessitates both the creation of new financial sources and the 'greening' of current financial flows.
• Progress in forest governance has been too slow since the launch of the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) to measurably reduce deforestation, requiring governments to address systemic challenges.
• The transition to low-carbon technologies is creating impending threats to forests due to an associated increase in mining activities.

APA

Forest Declaration Assessment (n.d.). Balancing forests and development: Addressing infrastructure and extractive industries, promoting sustainable livelihoods. https://forestdeclaration.org/resources/page/5/

Chicago

Forest Declaration Assessment. Balancing forests and development: Addressing infrastructure and extractive industries, promoting sustainable livelihoods. n.d. https://forestdeclaration.org/resources/page/5/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{forestdeclarationassessmentndbalancing, author = {{Forest Declaration Assessment}}, title = {{Balancing forests and development: Addressing infrastructure and extractive industries, promoting sustainable livelihoods}}, institution = {Forest Declaration Assessment}, url = {https://forestdeclaration.org/resources/page/5/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }