2018 Progress Assessment Goal 5 Update

The 2018 Progress Assessment for Goal 5 indicates that Bonn Challenge pledges have reached 168.9 million hectares, surpassing the 2020 milestone in terms of pledges. However, actual implementation remains difficult to aggregate, with a five-country sample showing 13.4 million hectares under restoration. Analysis of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) reveals that while 127 of 165 NDCs include forest landscape restoration (FLR) commitments, only 30% are quantifiable. When combining official NDC targets with non-target ambitions, 114 million hectares are reflected, representing one third of the 2030 target.

• Bonn Challenge pledges have increased to 168.9 million hectares, with 94 million hectares pledged for 2020 and 74.6 million hectares for 2030, meaning the 150 million hectare milestone for 2020 has been surpassed in pledges.
• Measuring actual implementation is challenging, but a sample of five jurisdictions indicates that approximately 13.4 million hectares are currently under restoration, which is 41 percent of their combined pledges.
• Specific national progress reported includes Rwanda bringing 900,000 hectares into restoration since 2011, the United States conducting restoration across 12.3 million hectares between 2011 and 2016, and India reporting approximately 9.8 million hectares of restored degraded land.
• Of 165 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), 127 contain forest landscape restoration (FLR) commitments, but only 30 percent of these make quantifiable mitigation or adaptation commitments, totaling 57 million hectares.
• Within the quantified NDC commitments, 25 million hectares from developing countries are unconditional, while 32 million hectares require international donor support.
• Non-target ambitions in NDCs—such as voluntary efforts or intended measures—add another 57 million hectares, bringing the total reflected in NDCs to 114 million hectares, or one third of the 2030 Goal 5 target.
• The Bonn Challenge Barometer of Progress, launched by the IUCN and the German government in 2016, provides a framework to track 'success factors' (policies, finance, and data) and 'results and benefits' (hectares restored, biodiversity, and carbon sequestration).
• FLR activities in NDCs are heavily skewed toward reforestation, with 98 percent of the 3.3 gigatons of CO2 equivalent in commitments expected to be achieved through reforestation rather than other forest management forms.

APA

Forest Declaration Assessment (2018). 2018 Progress Assessment Goal 5 Update. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2018Goal5.pdf

Chicago

Forest Declaration Assessment. 2018 Progress Assessment Goal 5 Update. 2018. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2018Goal5.pdf.

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BibTeX

@techreport{forestdeclarationassessment20182018, author = {{Forest Declaration Assessment}}, title = {{2018 Progress Assessment Goal 5 Update}}, institution = {Forest Declaration Assessment}, year = {2018}, url = {https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2018Goal5.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }