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

This briefing paper discusses the findings of the 2020 progress assessment of the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) Goal 3, specifically focusing on the risks that mining and infrastructure pose to forests and the threats emerging from the global transition to low-carbon technologies.

• Stopping the loss of natural forests necessitates both the creation of new financial sources and the 'greening' of current financial flows.
• While good forest governance is essential for sustainable land use and forest protection, progress in this area has been too slow over the seven years since the launch of the NYDF to measurably reduce deforestation.
• The briefing paper analyzes data from CDP's forest module of the States and Regions questionnaire to identify where states and regions are successfully addressing forest risks from infrastructure and mining, and where they are failing.

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} }