LES FORÊTS AU POINT

This document is the first chapter of a report by the Forest Declaration Assessment, a civil society initiative. It outlines the goals of the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF), evaluates the failure to meet its 2020 deforestation reduction targets, and identifies the economic drivers and systemic barriers preventing the protection of global forests.

• The New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF), established in 2014 by governments, companies, indigenous peoples, and civil society, consists of ten linked objectives aimed at stopping deforestation and restoring degraded forests and landscapes. As of the report's writing, it has over 200 signatories.
• The NYDF failed to achieve its goal of halving deforestation by 2020. Globally, 10 million hectares of forest are lost annually, an area equivalent to the size of Iceland.
• Agricultural commodities are primary drivers of forest loss, with seven specific products—cattle, oil palm, soy, cocoa, rubber, coffee, and wood fiber—accounting for more than half of all forest cover losses.
• Extractive industries and financial institutions contribute significantly to forest destruction. Nearly 20% of remaining intact tropical forest landscapes are located within mining, oil, or gas concessions, and nearly two-thirds of the 150 largest financial institutions lack policies regarding deforestation despite investing billions in high-risk companies.
• Despite systemic failures, some progress is noted: governments have committed an average of 2.4 billion US dollars to forest-based climate mitigation, some countries (including China, the UK, and the EU) are implementing demand-side measures to reduce illegal deforestation in commodity imports, and many countries are advancing their REDD+ programs.

APA

Forest Declaration Assessment (n.d.). LES FORÊTS AU POINT. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Les-Forets-au-Point-Ch1_FR.pdf

Chicago

Forest Declaration Assessment. LES FORÊTS AU POINT. n.d. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Les-Forets-au-Point-Ch1_FR.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{forestdeclarationassessmentndles, author = {{Forest Declaration Assessment}}, title = {{LES FORÊTS AU POINT}}, institution = {Forest Declaration Assessment}, url = {https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Les-Forets-au-Point-Ch1_FR.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }