NEW YORK DECLARATION ON FORESTS PROGRESS ASSESSMENT GOALS SUMMARY

The report evaluates global progress in forest governance and land rights, noting a record 182 killings of environmental defenders in 2016. While it highlights positive developments in illegal timber import controls in countries like South Korea, Malaysia, and the US, and the implementation of EU FLEGT agreements in Indonesia and Vietnam, it warns that climate finance for local communities remains insufficient, with only 10 percent reaching the local level in 2016. The document also emphasizes the lack of gender-sensitive provisions in community-based tenure regimes and the ongoing effort to track tenure security via SDG Indicator 1.4.2.

• Environmental defender killings reached a record high in 2016 with 182 deaths, continuing an upward trend from 80 in 2010. The mining and extractive industries sector was the primary driver with 33 killings, followed by logging (23) and agribusiness (23). Approximately 70 percent of these killings occurred in Latin America.
• Several consumer countries have implemented new legal frameworks to combat illegal timber imports. South Korea passed an act in March 2017 to revise the 2012 Forest Legislation, Malaysia introduced an Import Legality Regulation in July 2017 for Peninsular Malaysia, and the United States strengthened Lacey Act enforcement via the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) system in November 2016.
• Progress has been made in producer countries through the EU's Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan. Indonesia began official FLEGT licensing at the end of 2016, and Vietnam reached an agreement on a joint Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) implementation framework with the EU.
• Financial resources for indigenous peoples and local communities are insufficient, with only 10 percent of climate finance reaching the local level in 2016. However, specific initiatives include the International Land and Forest Tenure Facility (budget of USD 35 million) and the Forest Investment Programs Dedicated Grant Mechanism, which had been capitalized with USD 80 million as of its 2016 Annual Report.
• A study of 30 low- and middle-income countries found a significant lack of gender equality in community-based forest tenure. Adequate gender-sensitive provisions were found in only 3 percent of regimes for womens voting rights, 5 percent for leadership, 10 percent for inheritance, 18 percent for dispute resolution, and 29 percent for membership.

APA

Forest Declaration Assessment (2018). NEW YORK DECLARATION ON FORESTS PROGRESS ASSESSMENT GOALS SUMMARY. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2017Goal10-low-res.pdf

Chicago

Forest Declaration Assessment. NEW YORK DECLARATION ON FORESTS PROGRESS ASSESSMENT GOALS SUMMARY. 2018. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2017Goal10-low-res.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{forestdeclarationassessment2018new, author = {{Forest Declaration Assessment}}, title = {{NEW YORK DECLARATION ON FORESTS PROGRESS ASSESSMENT GOALS SUMMARY}}, institution = {Forest Declaration Assessment}, year = {2018}, url = {https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2017Goal10-low-res.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }