Progreso en la Declaración de Nueva York sobre los Bosques

The 2019 five-year assessment of the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) concludes that the 2020 goals for reducing tropical deforestation and restoring landscapes are likely unattainable. Despite high political will, tropical deforestation continues at an unsustainable rate, driven primarily by agricultural commodity expansion. Restoration efforts have been slow and largely occur outside natural forests. The report highlights a critical lack of 'green' financing, inadequate corporate commitment implementation, and the need for stronger governance and recognition of indigenous land rights to achieve the 2030 targets.

• The goals of the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) for 2020 are likely impossible to achieve, as tropical deforestation has continued at an unsustainable rate since 2014.
• Tropical forest loss remains severe, with an average annual loss of tree cover between 2014 and 2018 equivalent to the size of the United Kingdom. Latin America continues to lose the most tree cover annually, and Brazilian Amazon deforestation rates surged by 88 percent in June 2019 compared to the previous year.
• The loss of irreplaceable primary tropical forests has increased by 44 percent relative to the 2002–2013 baseline, rising from 3.0 to 4.3 million hectares per year. Between 2014 and 2018, this annual loss emitted 4.7 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide, exceeding the total 2017 greenhouse gas emissions of the European Union.
• Forest restoration progress is significantly lagging; as of April 2019, only 18 percent of the 2020 restoration goal has been implemented (26.7 million hectares since 2000), despite 170.6 million hectares of commitments from 59 entities via the Bonn Challenge.
• Corporate efforts to eliminate deforestation from supply chains have stagnated over the last three years, with only 8 percent of companies having a total elimination commitment covering all operations and supply chains.
• Financial investment in forests is critically insufficient. Green financing for forests is below USD 22 trillion, and investments to stop deforestation in tropical countries represent less than 1.5 percent (USD 3.2 trillion) of the USD 256 trillion committed by developed countries and multilateral institutions for climate change mitigation since 2010.
• Socioeconomic factors, particularly poverty and population growth, drive forest loss. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, shifting cultivation affects over 25 percent of forest lands and accounts for 70 percent of total forest cover loss.

APA

Forest Declaration Assessment (2019). Progreso en la Declaración de Nueva York sobre los Bosques. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019NYDFReport_ES_SP.pdf

Chicago

Forest Declaration Assessment. Progreso en la Declaración de Nueva York sobre los Bosques. 2019. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019NYDFReport_ES_SP.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{forestdeclarationassessment2019progreso, author = {{Forest Declaration Assessment}}, title = {{Progreso en la Declaración de Nueva York sobre los Bosques}}, institution = {Forest Declaration Assessment}, year = {2019}, month = sep, url = {https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019NYDFReport_ES_SP.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }