ÉTAT D’AVANCEMENT DE LA DÉCLARATION DE NEW YORK SUR LES FORÊTS

This executive summary evaluates progress toward Objectives 3 and 4 of the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF), focusing on reducing deforestation caused by infrastructure and extractive industries and supporting sustainable livelihoods. The report finds that progress is slow, with natural forest cover loss increasing since 2014 and significant gaps in transparency and policy implementation across governments, corporations, and financial institutions.

• The global community has failed to meet the NYDF's first objective, as the rate of natural forest cover loss has increased rather than being halved since 2014.
• Tropical forest landscapes face increasing threats from large-scale resource extraction and infrastructure development, driven by rising demand for fossil fuels, metals, and minerals.
• While nearly 18% of global forests are designated as protected areas, government implementation of forest policies is slow, and some environmental protections have been weakened, a trend accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Corporate transparency in the extractive industry remains very low; for example, only 23 out of 225 companies invited to provide information in 2019 and 2020 responded.
• Local movements and indigenous peoples have successfully delayed or cancelled some large-scale infrastructure projects and integrated 'rights of nature' into some legal frameworks, though implementation remains limited.
• Financial institutions and international donors lack transparency regarding the forest impacts of their investments, and funding for poverty reduction linked to deforestation is minimal compared to non-forest investments.
• The extractive industry was associated with the highest number of murders of environmental defenders in 2019.

APA

Forest Declaration Assessment (2020). ÉTAT D’AVANCEMENT DE LA DÉCLARATION DE NEW YORK SUR LES FORÊTS. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2020NYDFReport_ES_FR.pdf

Chicago

Forest Declaration Assessment. ÉTAT D’AVANCEMENT DE LA DÉCLARATION DE NEW YORK SUR LES FORÊTS. 2020. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2020NYDFReport_ES_FR.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{forestdeclarationassessment2020tat, author = {{Forest Declaration Assessment}}, title = {{ÉTAT D’AVANCEMENT DE LA DÉCLARATION DE NEW YORK SUR LES FORÊTS}}, institution = {Forest Declaration Assessment}, year = {2020}, month = nov, url = {https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2020NYDFReport_ES_FR.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }