PROGRESS ON THE NEW YORK DECLARATION ON FORESTS

The report finds that the 2020 target of restoring 150 million hectares of forest was not met, with only 18% achieved by 2019. It highlights the difficulty of monitoring restoration progress due to the limitations of satellite data and notes that in regions like Central America, gross tree cover gains have been offset by higher rates of loss. The document argues that achieving the 2030 goal requires transforming the enabling environment through quantified targets, strengthened policy and finance, and more consistent monitoring frameworks.

• The 2020 target to restore 150 million hectares of forest was not achieved; by 2019, only 18% of this goal had been met, with 26.7 million hectares of forests documented as restored since 2000.
• Since 2011, the average annual rate of forest restoration has declined by more than 1 million hectares, with only 3.1 million hectares restored since that year.
• In Central America, between 2011 and 2018, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua saw 1.9 billion hectares of gross tree cover gain, which was offset by 2.2 billion hectares of loss, resulting in a net loss of 320 million hectares.
• Technical monitoring of restoration is complex because satellite data cannot distinguish between different causes of tree cover gain, such as active restoration, abandoned land, or plantations.

APA

Forest Declaration Assessment (2022). PROGRESS ON THE NEW YORK DECLARATION ON FORESTS. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Restoring-degraded-lands-Progress-since-2014.pdf

Chicago

Forest Declaration Assessment. PROGRESS ON THE NEW YORK DECLARATION ON FORESTS. 2022. https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Restoring-degraded-lands-Progress-since-2014.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{forestdeclarationassessment2022progress, author = {{Forest Declaration Assessment}}, title = {{PROGRESS ON THE NEW YORK DECLARATION ON FORESTS}}, institution = {Forest Declaration Assessment}, year = {2022}, month = feb, url = {https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Restoring-degraded-lands-Progress-since-2014.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }