Evaluación de la Declaración Forestal 2025

The 2025 Forest Declaration Assessment reports that global forests remain in crisis, with deforestation and degradation rates failing to decline significantly. The document highlights a systemic failure where corporate commitments are insufficient, public and private financing is misaligned with conservation goals, and governance is undermined by power imbalances and illegal activities. While some national reforms and restoration efforts show promise, the report calls for systemic changes, mandatory regulations, and inclusive governance to meet 2030 targets.

• Global forest loss remains critical, with nearly 8.1 million hectares of permanent loss in 2024. Primary tropical forests specifically lost 6.73 million hectares, releasing 3,100 million metric tons of greenhouse gases. Deforestation is primarily driven by permanent agriculture, which has accounted for an average of approximately 86% of global deforestation over the last decade.
• Forest degradation is increasing rapidly and remains a monitoring blind spot. In 2024, 8.8 million hectares of humid tropical forests were degraded, more than double the annual level compatible with stopping degradation by 2030. The Amazon basin was particularly affected by fire-driven degradation.
• Corporate action against deforestation is largely insufficient. Only 3% of companies evaluated by Forest 500 meet the criteria for strong deforestation commitments, and 34% of these companies have made no public commitment. On average, these 500 large companies met only 16.2% of the criteria for implementing and reporting zero-deforestation commitments in 2024.
• International public and private financing is drastically misaligned with forest goals. While international public forest financing rose to an estimated $5.7 billion in 2022-24, this is only 1.4% of the $409 billion in annual public funding for environmentally harmful agricultural subsidies. Private financing for agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) captured only $5.6 billion in 2023, representing approximately 0.3% of total private climate mitigation finance that year.
• Forest governance is hindered by power imbalances and widespread illegality. Between 61% and 94% of tropical deforestation driven by agriculture is estimated to be illegal. Environmental crimes, including illegal deforestation and wildlife trafficking, generate up to $281 billion annually. Furthermore, only 4% of the world's protected land is managed by indigenous peoples and local communities, despite the total protected area reaching 17.5% of global land in 2024.
• Natural regeneration and active restoration show potential but are currently small in scale. Between 2015 and 2021, naturally regenerating humid tropical forests expanded by over 11 million hectares. Active restoration initiatives cover about 10.6 million hectares of deforested and degraded land, which is only 0.3% of the global biophysical potential for forest restoration.

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} }