NEW YORK DECLARATION ON FORESTS PROGRESS ASSESSMENT GOALS SUMMARY

This report assesses progress toward Goal 4 of the New York Declaration on Forests, which focuses on supporting alternatives to deforestation driven by basic needs, such as subsistence farming and fuelwood collection. The document highlights a significant lack of aggregate global data to measure progress, relying instead on proxy indicators like the distribution of clean cookstoves and related financial funding.

• Measuring progress toward reducing deforestation driven by basic needs is hindered by a lack of global aggregate data. Interventions are often small-scale, scattered, or categorized under different objectives like health or food security, meaning no global data currently exists to quantify support from civil society, the private sector, or the public sector for these alternatives.
• Subsistence agriculture and fuelwood collection are major drivers of forest loss. Farming for basic needs is estimated to cause nearly one-third of total tropical deforestation, while fuelwood collection for heating and cooking contributes approximately one-third of forest degradation. Fuelwood collection is particularly critical in South Asia and East Africa, with specific hotspots identified in Malaysia, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, and Brazil.
• The distribution of cookstoves increased from under three million in 2010 to approximately 20 million annually in recent years. In 2015, 13 million of the 21 million distributed stoves were classified as clean and/or efficient, though this was a decrease from nearly 15 million in 2014. The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC) aims for adoption in 100 million households and predicts most distributed stoves will meet clean and efficient criteria by 2020.
• Financial support for woodfuel interventions has seen a general decline between 2012 and 2015. Official Development Assistance (ODA) for fuelwood dropped from USD 81 million to USD 3.2 million, and carbon credit offset transactions fell from USD 65 million to USD 15 million. While funding to the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves increased by over USD 6 million in 2015, it subsequently declined by USD 4 million the following year.

APA

Forest Declaration Assessment (2018). NEW YORK DECLARATION ON FORESTS PROGRESS ASSESSMENT GOALS SUMMARY. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2017Goal4.pdf

Chicago

Forest Declaration Assessment. NEW YORK DECLARATION ON FORESTS PROGRESS ASSESSMENT GOALS SUMMARY. 2018. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2017Goal4.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/2020/11/2017Goal4.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }