Progress on the New York Declaration on Forests – An Assessment Framework and Initial Report: Technical Annexes

This technical annex assesses progress toward Goal 7 of the New York Declaration on Forests, which aims to include forest-related mitigation measures in a post-2020 global climate agreement. As of November 2015, the report finds that while the REDD+ methodological framework is largely complete, the final text of the Paris Agreement remains under negotiation, and the extent to which land-use sectors are integrated into national commitments (INDCs) varies significantly across countries.

• As of November 1, 2015, the negotiating text for the post-2020 climate agreement contains various options for including land-use and REDD+, but the overall structure and substance remain under intense debate, making it too early to determine how the final Paris Agreement will address these sectors.
• The methodological framework for REDD+ is considered essentially complete following the adoption of three new methodological decisions by the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice in June 2015.
• The Green Climate Fund is expected to become operational by the end of 2015, although it is still finalizing the modalities for making results-based payments for REDD+.
• An analysis of 122 Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) submitted by October 2, 2015, reveals that most states set economy-wide mitigation targets rather than sectoral ones, leaving it unclear if reductions will specifically occur in land-use and forest sectors.
• Among the submitted INDCs, 40 countries included specific actions on forests and land-use, while 18 countries explicitly excluded the land-use and/or forest sectors from their targets.
• Countries that included the land-use sector in their INDCs show some convergence on accounting methodologies, with a majority referring to the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change Guidelines, specifically either the 1996 or 2006 versions.

APA

Forest Declaration Assessment (2015). Progress on the New York Declaration on Forests – An Assessment Framework and Initial Report: Technical Annexes. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2015Goal7.pdf

Chicago

Forest Declaration Assessment. Progress on the New York Declaration on Forests – An Assessment Framework and Initial Report: Technical Annexes. 2015. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2015Goal7.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{forestdeclarationassessment2015progress, author = {{Forest Declaration Assessment}}, title = {{Progress on the New York Declaration on Forests – An Assessment Framework and Initial Report: Technical Annexes}}, institution = {Forest Declaration Assessment}, year = {2015}, month = nov, url = {https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2015Goal7.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }