Avaliação da Declaração Florestal de 2025

The 2025 Forest Declaration Assessment is an executive summary produced by a civil society coalition to monitor progress toward global forest goals. It concludes that the world is 'off track' to meet 2030 targets, citing continued large-scale deforestation, increasing forest degradation, and a significant gap between international commitments and actual implementation in governance, finance, and corporate behavior.

• Global forests remained under severe pressure in 2024, with nearly 8.1 million hectares lost permanently. Primary tropical forests saw the loss of 6.73 million hectares, which released 3.1 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases. Additionally, losses in areas critical for biodiversity rose by 47% over the previous year, totaling 2.2 million hectares.
• Agriculture for permanent use remains the primary driver of global deforestation, accounting for an average of approximately 86% of such losses over the last decade. Forest degradation is also accelerating; in 2024, 8.8 million hectares of moist tropical forests were degraded, which is more than double the annual level required to end degradation by 2030.
• Corporate action remains insufficient to stop forest loss. Only 3% of companies evaluated by Forest 500 meet expectations for solid deforestation commitments, while 63% show deficiencies in ambition or implementation. On average, these 500 large companies met only 16.2% of the criteria for implementing and reporting zero-deforestation commitments in 2024.
• Public and private financial flows are drastically misaligned with forest goals. International public funding for forests rose to approximately US$ 5.7 billion in 2022-24, but this is only 1.4% of the US$ 409 billion spent annually on environmentally harmful agricultural subsidies. Private financing for agriculture, forests, and other land use (AFOLU) captured only US$ 5.6 billion in 2023, representing about 0.3% of total private climate mitigation funding that year.
• Forest governance is hindered by power imbalances and weak enforcement. Between 61% and 94% of tropical deforestation for agriculture is estimated to be illegal, and environmental crimes generate up to US$ 281 billion annually. Furthermore, while protected areas increased to 17.5% of global land area in 2024, only 4% of these areas are managed by indigenous peoples and local communities.
• There are positive signs of recovery and systemic change. Natural regeneration of moist tropical forests expanded by over 11 million hectares between 2015 and 2021. Active restoration initiatives are underway on approximately 10.6 million hectares of deforested and degraded land. Additionally, countries like Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia have shown that internal reforms can lead to real progress in reducing deforestation.

APA

Forest Declaration Assessment (2025). Avaliação da Declaração Florestal de 2025. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025SPM_PT.pdf

Chicago

Forest Declaration Assessment. Avaliação da Declaração Florestal de 2025. 2025. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025SPM_PT.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{forestdeclarationassessment2025avaliao, author = {{Forest Declaration Assessment}}, title = {{Avaliação da Declaração Florestal de 2025}}, institution = {Forest Declaration Assessment}, year = {2025}, month = oct, url = {https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025SPM_PT.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }