PROGRESO EN LA DECLARACIÓN DE NUEVA YORK SOBRE LOS BOSQUES

The 2020 NYDF assessment finds that natural forest loss has increased since 2014, failing the goal to halve the rate by 2020. The report highlights growing threats from large-scale infrastructure and extractive industries, noting a significant lack of transparency among companies and governments. While some progress has been made in designating protected areas and developing national forest strategies, implementation remains slow, and environmental protections are often weakened. The document emphasizes the need for a paradigm shift in valuing forests and the adoption of four specific strategies to align macroeconomic planning and project implementation with forest conservation and sustainable development.

• The global goal to halve the rate of natural forest loss by 2020 has not been met; instead, the rate of loss has increased since 2014.
• Large-scale infrastructure and extractive industries pose an increasing threat to tropical forests due to rising demand for fossil fuels, metals, and minerals.
• Government progress is characterized by a gap between policy creation and implementation; while nearly 18% of global forests are protected areas, enforcement is slow and some protections are being rolled back, a trend accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Corporate transparency in the extractive sector is very low; although 78% of evaluated mining companies committed to stopping biodiversity loss, only 23 out of 225 invited companies provided information in 2019 and 2020.
• Indigenous peoples and local communities have successfully used international alliances to delay or cancel harmful infrastructure projects and have demonstrated the viability of community-based natural resource management.
• Financial institutions and donors lack transparency regarding forest risks in their investments, and funding for poverty alleviation linked to deforestation reduction is minimal compared to non-forest investments.
• 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-imposed conditions.
• The extractive sector is linked to a high number of environmental conflicts and was associated with the highest number of environmental defender murders in 2019.

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} }