Overarching forest goals

The 2022 Forest Declaration Assessment finds that no global indicator is currently on track to meet the 2030 goals of halting forest loss and degradation or restoring 350 million hectares of forest landscape. While global deforestation rates declined by 6.3% in 2021 compared to the 2018-2020 baseline, this falls short of the 10% annual reduction required. Tropical Asia is the only region on track to halt deforestation by 2030, while Tropical Latin America and Africa remain off track. The report also notes that while 130.9 million hectares of tree cover were gained between 2000 and 2020, these were offset by 231.4 million hectares of loss, resulting in a net global loss of 100.5 million hectares.

• No global indicator is currently on track to meet the 2030 targets for stopping forest loss and degradation or restoring 350 million hectares of forest landscape.
• To completely halt deforestation by 2030, a 10% annual reduction in forest loss is required; however, the 2021 rate decreased by only 6.3% relative to the 2018-2020 baseline.
• Tropical Asia is the only region currently on track to halt deforestation by 2030, having experienced five consecutive years of decreasing primary forest loss.
• Humid tropical primary forest loss decreased by 3.1% in 2021 compared to the 2018-2020 baseline, a rate of decline slower than that of global deforestation.
• Global greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation decreased by 5.5% in 2021 from the 2018-2020 baseline, totaling 3.9 GtCO2e, which is insufficient to meet the 2030 target.
• Forest degradation continues globally across all regions, although the rate of degradation slowed in 2020-21, roughly aligning with the annual target.
• Between 2000 and 2020, global tree cover increased by approximately 130.9 million hectares, but this was offset by 231.4 million hectares of loss, leading to a net global loss of 100.5 million hectares.
• The global cost-effective mitigation potential of restoration for the 2020-2050 period is 36.252 billion tCO2e, with Latin America and the Caribbean holding the largest share at 32.8%.
• The global cost-effective area of opportunity for restoration between 2020 and 2050 is 295.1 million hectares, with 80% of the mitigation potential concentrated in 24 countries.

APA

Forest Declaration Assessment (2022). Overarching forest goals. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022Theme1.pdf

Chicago

Forest Declaration Assessment. Overarching forest goals. 2022. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022Theme1.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{forestdeclarationassessment2022overarching, author = {{Forest Declaration Assessment}}, title = {{Overarching forest goals}}, institution = {Forest Declaration Assessment}, year = {2022}, month = oct, url = {https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022Theme1.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }