A civil society-led assessment of progress toward the global goals of halting and reversing deforestation and forest degradation by 2030. The Forest Declaration Assessment annually publishes rigorously researched and peer-reviewed progress assessment reports on the state of global forests. Our critical, evidence-based analyses highlight the gaps and point to solutions to overcome inertia, countervailing economic forces, and other barriers to progress. In 2015 the NYDF Assessment Partners were formed as an independent civil society initiative to monitor progress towards the NYDF’s global goals through the NYDF Progress Assessment. What started as a coalition of six organizations has grown into a strong and diverse group of research organizations, think tanks, NGOs, and advocacy groups spanning the globe now known as the Forest Declaration Assessment Partners. The network also coordinates closely with external collaborators from academia, multilateral institutions, and governments. The information that the Forest Declaration Assessment collects and publishes every year supports planning to ensure that 2030 forests goals can be met through a coordinated and collaborative effort of governments, corporations, and civil society.
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❓Is the world on track to restore 30% of degraded and deforested landscapes by 2030? 🔖This chapter tracks progress toward the KM-GBF target of restoring 30% of degraded and deforested landscapes. Download a free copy👉: bit.ly/4fjRW7K #Trees4Resilience| Forest Declaration Assessment | #COP16Riyadh
🤝 Unite – We are all on the same team. 📝 Report – Be proactive and transparent about the actions you are taking. ⚖️ Level the playing field – Ensure that the framework we are all working in isn’t biased and inequitable from the beginning. These are the three urgent next steps to advance equitable and transparent accountability for international forest pledges. These steps were highlighted by our esteemed panelists at the end of the #COP29 side event “Delivering on Forest Ambition. Building Accountability, Equity, and Transparency in Global Forest Policy“ on November 21. The event was hosted by Climate Focus and Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) on behalf of the Forest Declaration Assessment Partners and facilitated by Erin D. Matson, Senior Consultant at Climate Focus and Coordinator of the Forest Declaration Assessment. 🚀 We had a brilliant discussion, kicked off by opening remarks from Brenda Mallory, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Chair Mallory provided an overview of progress that the Biden Administration has made domestically and internationally to advance the U.S.’s commitment to the #GlasgowLeadersDeclaration. 🗣️ Then our panelists laid out some of the biggest barriers to equitable accountability: Jennifer Skene, Director of Global Northern Forests Policy, NRDC – Accountability is the mechanism that ensures that pledges are transformed into concrete action. Transparency and accountability ensure that actors are sufficiently motivated to follow through. Without these, pledgers have no incentive to make good. Moradeke Adelekan, Minister Counsellor, Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs – A big challenge to ensuring equitable accountability? If the pledge itself establishes an uneven playing field. Most international forest commitments focus primarily on tropical forests and ignore ongoing degradation and destruction of boreal and temperate forests. In this way, commitments lay the majority of the responsibility (and blame) on Global South countries. Leticia Guimaraes, Head of Carbon Markets, UNDP – Accountability is underscored by data—and data is collected and reported through accounting systems. But the designs of forest and climate accounting systems under the UNFCCC are biased against tropical forest countries. For example, current accounting systems allow Global North countries to exclude emissions from forest fires (calling these “natural disturbances”). Tropical forest countries, on the other hand, cannot exclude emissions from forest fires because tropical forest fires are not considered natural. However, tropical forest fires are increasing due to climate change, and forest countries have no influence on this. Inequitable accounting frameworks lead to inequitable accountability. 📺 Watch the full recording of the event on YouTube ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dggB6jBp #COP29Azerbaijan #ForestGoals #ClimateAction COP29 Azerbaijan
🌿 Today is Nature Day at COP29, and to mark this date, Nature4Climate produced a video stressing the urgent need to place nature at the heart of climate solutions and finance discussions. We couldn’t agree more. Nature, including our precious forests, is essential to combating climate change. Despite working overtime to reduce emissions, enhance resilience, and safeguards biodiversity, there’s a glaring gap in finance for nature. Though it contributes 30% of the solutions needed to meet the Paris Agreement goals, nature receives a mere 3% of global climate financing. 🔗 Check out the full video: https://lnkd.in/eKu-fDCw
📣🌳 Investing in nature is investing in our future. As the final days of #COP29 negotiations approach, governments must recognize nature’s critical role in climate action. Today, a global group of NGOs, business coalitions, Indigenous Peoples organizations, and influential individuals has issued an urgent ‘COP29 Nature Statement’ calling for strong recognition of nature in the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance text under discussion in Baku right now. There is no climate solution without nature. 👓➡️ Read the full statement: https://lnkd.in/eHHhj-bK ✍️➡️ You can also join the collective statement by adding your signature here: https://lnkd.in/d48tcZGA Nature4Climate #WithNature #Mission2025 #ProtectWhatWeLove #COP29Azerbaijan #COP29NatureStatement
⁉️ How can we boost accountability for 2030 #ForestGoals? How can we speed up meaningful action for forests worldwide? 🌍 As the deadline for achieving 2030 forest goals approaches, there is a growing international push for strong accountability mechanisms. This global effort aims to drive effective and equitable implementation across both the Global North and Global South. ➡️ Join us at #COP29Azerbaijan tomorrow, November 21, for a discussion on advancing accountability for forest targets and unlocking transformative, global solutions. 🗣️ Don't miss insights from our esteemed panelists: Brenda Mallory, 12th Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality Moradeke Adelekan, Minister Counsellor, Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Leticia Guimaraes, Head of Carbon Markets, UNDP Jennifer Skene, Director of Global Northern Forests Policy, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Moderator: Erin D. Matson, Senior Consultant at Climate Focus & Coordinator of the Forest Declaration Assessment 📆 Thursday, November 21 🕒 12-1 PM GMT+4 📍 WWF Pavilion, Area/Zone E, G28, Blue Zone 📋 Organized in collaboration with Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) on behalf of the Forest Declaration Assessment Partners 📺 Livestream available on WWF’s Climate and Energy YouTube Channel: https://lnkd.in/gCMFwWFb #COP29 #ForestGoals #ForestDeclarationAssessment #Accountability COP29 Azerbaijan
Learn more about the findings of this year’s Forest Declaration Assessment at this Land Use Action Event hosted by the #MarrakechPartnership for Global Climate Action at #COP29Azerbaijan! 🗣️ Erin D. Matson, Senior Land Use Consultant at Climate Focus and Coordinator of the Forest Declaration Assessment will be a guest speaker and talk about progress toward achieving the 2030 #ForestGoals. 🏔️ Transforming Land and Ecosystems for a Nature Positive 2030 📆 November 19, 12-1:30 PM AZT 📍 Nasimi Room, Zone B 💡 The session will highlight transformative actions demonstrating that a nature-positive, low-emission future is possible, where restored and protected ecosystems boost biodiversity and strengthen community resilience. We look forward to being part of this panel together with The International Land and Forest Tenure Facility, Rainforest Alliance, and Terraformation. #COP29 #ClimateAction #NaturePositive COP29 Azerbaijan
🗣️ Meet the speakers for our #COP29 event “Delivering on Forest Ambition: Building Accountability, Equity, and Transparency in Global Forest Policy”! Brenda Mallory serves as the 12th Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality of the United States. She is the first African American to serve in this position. As Chair, she advises the President on environmental and natural resources policies that improve, preserve, and protect public health and the environment for America’s communities. She is focused particularly on addressing the environmental justice and climate change challenges the nation faces while advancing opportunities for job growth and economic development. Moradeke Adelekan is a career diplomat in the Foreign Service of Nigeria. She is a Minister Counsellor and currently serving at the Embassy of Nigeria in Brussels. She is the desk officer on the Organisation of African, Caribbean, and Pacific States, representing Nigeria's interest in Sustainable Development and Environmental issues. Jennifer Skene is the Director of Global Northern Forests Policy at Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Jennifer works to advance policies at all levels of government addressing the degradation of northern forests. Jennifer is also a clinical lecturer at Yale Law School, where she co-teaches the Environmental Protection Clinic, and a member of the World Commission on Environmental Law and the IUCN Climate Crisis Commission. Moderator: Erin D. Matson is a Senior Consultant at Climate Focus. Erin coordinates the Forest Declaration Assessment. 📆 Thursday, November 21 🕒 12-1 PM AZT 📍 WWF Pavilion, Blue Zone, Baku Stadium (no prior registration required for in-person participation) 📺 Livestream available on WWF’s Climate and Energy YouTube Channel: https://lnkd.in/gCMFwWFb #COP29 #ForestGoals #ForestDeclarationAssessment #Accountability COP29 Azerbaijan
🍃 #UNFCCC #COP29 has started in Baku, Azerbaijan! 🍃 This is what we’ll be watching: 💰 Developments related to finance and new finance mechanisms for forests (The Assessment has recently published a special report about this: https://lnkd.in/enxSWgEd) 🎪 Events at the first-ever Forest Pavilion organized by the UN Forum on Forests: https://lnkd.in/dYVdjFK6 🤝 We also look forward to engaging with our Partners as we prepare for next year’s Assessment. Reach out if you’re also at COP29 and want to discuss the state of international #ForestGoals. 👉 Also join us on November 21 for our event “Delivering on Forest Ambition: Building Accountability, Equity, and Transparency in Global Forest Policy“: https://lnkd.in/d-Ck9MkR #COP29 #Forests #ForestGoals #ClimateFinance
🍃 Find the Forest Declaration Assessment at #UNFCCC #COP29! 🍃 If you’ll be in Baku, join our event on “Delivering on Forest Ambition: Building Accountability, Equity, and Transparency in Global Forest Policy”. As the window for achieving 2030 #ForestGoals narrows, there is a growing international push to build accountability mechanisms and processes to spur effective and equitable implementation across both the Global North and Global South. This panel will bring together government officials, international policy leaders, and researchers to discuss the latest efforts, within and beyond the UNFCCC, to foster accountability for the 2030 forest targets and catalyze truly global, transformative solutions. The event will be co-hosted by Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Climate Focus, on behalf of the Forest Declaration Assessment Partners. 📆 Thursday, November 21 🕒 12-1 PM AZT (GMT+4) 📍 WWF Pavilion, Area/Zone E, G28 Blue Zone, Baku Stadium (no prior registration required for in-person participation) 📺 Livestream available on WWF’s Climate and Energy YouTube Channel: https://lnkd.in/gCMFwWFb 🗣️ In addition, Erin D. Matson, Senior Consultant at Climate Focus, will speak about the findings of the 2024 Assessment at a Land Use Action event on Tuesday, November 19, 12-1:30 PM GMT+4 in room Nasimi (Blue Zone), Baku Stadium. The event titled “Transforming Land and Ecosystems for a Nature-Positive 2030” is hosted by the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action and will highlight transformative actions demonstrating that a nature-positive, low-emission future is possible, where restored and protected ecosystems boost biodiversity and strengthen community resilience. 👋 See you at COP29! #COP29 #ForestGoals #ForestDeclarationAssessment #Accountability
🚨 Over 38% of the world's tree species at risk of extinction 🌳🔥 The latest IUCN Red List assessment shows that more than a third of the world's tree species are threatened with extinction, endangering ecosystems and livelihoods globally. As reported by The New York Times, Erin D. Matson, senior consultant at Climate Focus, warns: “There is a huge blind spot in terms of understanding and prioritizing the value of standing forests. Governments are often affected just as much by profit motive as private companies, and it’s much easier to make money by clearing a forest or harvesting timber from a forest than by protecting and conserving a forest” Island biodiversity is particularly vulnerable, with species in Madagascar, Borneo, and Cuba facing critical threats. While the situation is alarming, examples like Brazil's efforts to curb deforestation show that positive change is possible with strong political will. 🔗 Read the article to find out more about the urgent need for global action to protect our forests and achieve deforestation goals by 2030: https://lnkd.in/gxP_MeTp