Evaluación de la Declaración Forestal 2025

The 2025 Forest Declaration Assessment reports that global forests remain in crisis, with 8.1 million hectares lost in 2024 and degradation increasing. Despite some success in natural regeneration and specific national policy reforms in Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia, the report finds that corporate commitments are largely insufficient and financial flows remain misaligned with conservation goals. It calls for a shift from voluntary corporate pledges to mandatory regulations and inclusive governance that secures land tenure for indigenous peoples and local communities.

• Global forest loss remains critical, with nearly 8.1 million hectares of permanent forest loss in 2024. Primary tropical forests were particularly affected, losing 6.73 million hectares and releasing 3,100 million metric tons of greenhouse gases. Additionally, losses in key forest biodiversity areas rose by 47% compared to the previous year, totaling 2.2 million hectares.
• Forest degradation is increasing rapidly and remains a monitoring blind spot. In 2024, 8.8 million hectares of humid tropical forests were degraded, which is more than double the annual level required to stop degradation by 2030. The Amazon basin was specifically impacted by fire-driven degradation.
• Agricultural expansion is the primary driver of deforestation, accounting for an average of approximately 86% of global deforestation over the last decade. Mining is also identified as a rapidly growing threat to forests.
• Corporate action against deforestation is largely inadequate. Only 3% of companies evaluated by Forest 500 meet the criteria for strong deforestation commitments, while 63% show deficiencies in ambition or implementation. On average, these 500 companies met only 16.2% of the criteria for implementing and reporting zero-deforestation commitments in 2024.
• Public and private financial flows are severely misaligned with forest goals. International public forest finance reached an estimated $5.7 billion between 2022-24, yet this is only 1.4% of the $409 billion in annual public funding for environmentally harmful agricultural subsidies. Private finance for the AFOLU sector captured only $5.6 billion in 2023, representing about 0.3% of total private climate mitigation finance that year.
• Forest governance is undermined by power imbalances and illegal activities. Between 61% and 94% of agriculture-driven tropical deforestation is estimated to be illegal, with environmental crimes generating up to $281 billion annually. Furthermore, only 4% of the world's protected land is managed by indigenous peoples and local communities, despite the 17.5% total global protected area.
• There are positive signs of recovery through natural regeneration and specific national reforms. Between 2015 and 2021, naturally regenerating humid tropical forests expanded by over 11 million hectares. Additionally, Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia have demonstrated that strong internal policy reforms can lead to real progress in reducing deforestation.

APA

Forest Declaration Assessment (2025). Evaluación de la Declaración Forestal 2025. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025SPM_ES.pdf

Chicago

Forest Declaration Assessment. Evaluación de la Declaración Forestal 2025. 2025. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025SPM_ES.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{forestdeclarationassessment2025evaluacin, author = {{Forest Declaration Assessment}}, title = {{Evaluación de la Declaración Forestal 2025}}, institution = {Forest Declaration Assessment}, year = {2025}, month = oct, url = {https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025SPM_ES.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }