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The 2023 Forest Declaration Assessment executive summary reports that the world is off track to stop and reverse deforestation and degradation by 2030, despite some individual national successes. It highlights a critical gap in funding, a lack of corporate and financial accountability, and the need for a radical transformation of economic models to value standing forests over short-term extraction.

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  • Global deforestation rates remain dangerously high and are exceeding the trajectory needed to meet 2030 goals. In 2022, gross global deforestation reached 6.6 million hectares, which is 21 percent higher than the required path. Primary tropical forest loss was 4.1 million hectares, exceeding the necessary trajectory by 33 percent.
  • While over 50 countries are on track to eliminate deforestation by 2030, including sustainable reductions in Indonesia and Malaysia, these successes are offset by massive ongoing losses in other critical ecosystems. There is a risk that reductions in one area are caused by 'leakage' or the outsourcing of commodity production to other countries or ecosystems.
  • There is a severe underfunding of forest protection compared to other global investments. Annual government funding for forests is only 2.2 billion USD, a sum the document notes is less than the cost of completing two major football stadiums: the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (1.1 billion USD) and the Camp Nou renovation (1.6 billion USD).
  • The private financial sector continues to fund activities that drive deforestation. In 2022, Forest 500 estimated that private financial institutions provided 6.1 trillion USD to companies that largely risk driving tropical deforestation through agricultural commodity production.
  • Indigenous peoples and local communities are effective forest managers but receive very little of the funding they need and frequently face violence and criminalization while protecting their lands.

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Forest Declaration Assessment (2023). PENILAIAN DEKLARASI HUTAN 2023. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023ExecSummary_BH.pdf
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Forest Declaration Assessment. PENILAIAN DEKLARASI HUTAN 2023. 2023. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023ExecSummary_BH.pdf.
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@techreport{forestdeclarationassessment2023penilaian, author = {{Forest Declaration Assessment}}, title = {{PENILAIAN DEKLARASI HUTAN 2023}}, institution = {Forest Declaration Assessment}, year = {2023}, url = {https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023ExecSummary_BH.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }

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