PROGRESO EN LA DECLARACIÓN DE NUEVA YORK SOBRE LOS BOSQUES

This executive summary, published in November 2020 by the NYDF Assessment Partners and coordinated by Climate Focus, evaluates progress toward the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF). It specifically focuses on Objective 3 (reducing deforestation from economic sectors other than agriculture) and Objective 4 (promoting sustainable alternatives to basic-need driven deforestation). The report finds that natural forest loss has increased since 2014, failing the goal of a 50% reduction by 2020, and highlights systemic failures in transparency, policy enforcement, and the protection of indigenous rights across governments, corporations, and financial institutions.

• The global rate of natural forest loss has increased since 2014, failing to meet the NYDF Objective 1 goal of being reduced by half by 2020.
• Large-scale infrastructure development and natural resource extraction are increasing in tropical forest regions, driven by rising demand for fossil fuels, metals, and minerals.
• While nearly 18% of global forests are designated as protected areas, governments often fail to implement these policies, and some environmental protections have been rolled back, a trend accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Corporate transparency regarding forest impacts remains very low; for example, only 23 out of 225 invited companies provided information in 2019 and 2020, despite 78% of assessed mining companies committing to stop biodiversity loss.
• Indigenous peoples and local communities have successfully used international alliances to delay or cancel large infrastructure projects and have demonstrated the effectiveness of community-based natural resource management in reducing deforestation.
• Financial institutions and donors lack transparency regarding how they avoid high-risk forest investments, and funding for poverty alleviation linked to deforestation reduction is minimal compared to non-forest investments.
• The extractive sector is linked to a high number of environmental conflicts and was associated with the highest number of murders of environmental defenders in 2019.
• REDD+ initiatives have mobilized at least 7.6 billion USD in public funding, but many programs remain in early stages or are hindered by donor conditions.

APA

Forest Declaration Assessment (2020). PROGRESO EN LA DECLARACIÓN DE NUEVA YORK SOBRE LOS BOSQUES. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2020NYDFReport_ES_SP.pdf

Chicago

Forest Declaration Assessment. PROGRESO EN LA DECLARACIÓN DE NUEVA YORK SOBRE LOS BOSQUES. 2020. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2020NYDFReport_ES_SP.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{forestdeclarationassessment2020progreso, author = {{Forest Declaration Assessment}}, title = {{PROGRESO EN LA DECLARACIÓN DE NUEVA YORK SOBRE LOS BOSQUES}}, institution = {Forest Declaration Assessment}, year = {2020}, month = nov, url = {https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2020NYDFReport_ES_SP.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }