Avaliação do Progresso da Declaração de Nova Iorque sobre Florestas

The 2019 five-year assessment of the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) concludes that achieving the 2020 goals of halving tropical deforestation and restoring 150 million hectares of degraded landscapes is likely impossible. Despite political commitments, tropical deforestation continues at an unsustainable rate, driven primarily by agricultural commodity expansion. While some progress is noted in Indonesia, significant losses persist in Latin America and the Brazilian Amazon. Restoration efforts have largely occurred outside natural forests, and financial investments in forest protection remain critically low compared to other climate mitigation efforts. The report emphasizes that systemic change requires coordinated action across supply chains, increased 'green' financing, stronger governance, and the recognition of indigenous land rights.

• The goals of the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) for 2020, which included halving tropical deforestation and restoring 150 million hectares of degraded landscapes, are likely impossible to achieve as tropical deforestation has remained at an unsustainable rate since 2014.
• Agricultural commodity expansion is the primary driver of deforestation, with over 90% of global deforestation linked to agricultural commodities and urbanization occurring in the tropics.
• Tropical primary forest loss increased by 44% compared to the 2002–2013 period, rising from 3.0 to 4.3 million hectares per year. Between 2014 and 2018, the average annual loss of tropical tree cover emitted 4.7 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide, exceeding the total 2017 greenhouse gas emissions of the European Union.
• Forest restoration progress is limited; of the 170.6 million hectares of restoration commitments made by countries, jurisdictions, and companies through the Bonn Challenge for 2020 and 2030, only 18% of the 2020 goal has been documented as implemented within forests (26.7 million hectares since 2000).
• Private sector commitments to eliminate deforestation from supply chains have stagnated over the last three years, and only 8% of companies with such commitments have a zero-deforestation pledge covering all operations and supply chains.
• Financial investment in forest protection is severely inadequate; since 2010, investments to stop deforestation in tropical countries represented less than 1.5% (USD 3.2 billion) of the USD 256 billion committed by developed country donors and multilateral institutions for climate mitigation.
• In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, shifting agriculture accounts for over 25% of all forested lands and is responsible for 70% of the country's total forest cover loss.

APA

Forest Declaration Assessment (2019). Avaliação do Progresso da Declaração de Nova Iorque sobre Florestas. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019NYDFReport_ES_PT.pdf

Chicago

Forest Declaration Assessment. Avaliação do Progresso da Declaração de Nova Iorque sobre Florestas. 2019. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019NYDFReport_ES_PT.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{forestdeclarationassessment2019avaliao, author = {{Forest Declaration Assessment}}, title = {{Avaliação do Progresso da Declaração de Nova Iorque sobre Florestas}}, institution = {Forest Declaration Assessment}, year = {2019}, month = sep, url = {https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019NYDFReport_ES_PT.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }