New York Declaration on Forests

The New York Declaration on Forests is a statement of commitment to slow, halt, and reverse global forest loss to safeguard biodiversity and limit global warming to 2°C. The signatories pledge specific targets for reducing natural forest loss, eliminating deforestation from agricultural commodities, and restoring degraded landscapes by 2020 and 2030.

• Forests are critical for human survival and environmental stability, supporting over 1.6 billion people and up to 80% of terrestrial biodiversity, while acting as a natural carbon sequestration mechanism to mitigate climate change.
• Global deforestation averages 13 million hectares per year, with approximately half of this loss driven by the production of commodities including beef, paper, soy, and palm oil.
• The declaration sets specific quantitative targets for forest preservation and restoration: halving the rate of natural forest loss globally by 2020 with a goal to end it by 2030, and restoring 150 million hectares of degraded lands by 2020, followed by at least 200 million additional hectares by 2030.
• The commitment includes supporting the private sector to eliminate deforestation from agricultural commodities by 2020 and agreeing to reduce emissions from deforestation as part of a post-2020 global climate agreement to keep warming below 2°C.
• Successful achievement of the declaration's outcomes is estimated to reduce emissions by between 4.5 and 8.8 billion tons annually by 2030.

APA

Forest Declaration Assessment (n.d.). New York Declaration on Forests. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/NYDF_Declaration.pdf

Chicago

Forest Declaration Assessment. New York Declaration on Forests. n.d. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/NYDF_Declaration.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{forestdeclarationassessmentndnew, author = {{Forest Declaration Assessment}}, title = {{New York Declaration on Forests}}, publisher = {Forest Declaration Assessment}, url = {https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/NYDF_Declaration.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }