{"id":30586,"date":"2024-10-09T17:57:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T12:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=30586"},"modified":"2024-10-09T17:57:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T12:27:15","slug":"the-2024-forest-declaration-assessment-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/09-10-2024\/the-2024-forest-declaration-assessment-report","title":{"rendered":"The 2024 Forest Declaration Assessment Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS3\/Biodiversity and Conservation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The 2024 Forest Declaration Assessment report, &#8220;<strong>Forests under fire: Tracking progress on 2030 forest goals,&#8221; was released.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Most countries backed the<strong> 2030 zero deforestation pledge<\/strong> at the UN Cop26 climate summit in 2021.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The 2024 forest declaration assessment, produced by a coalition of research and civil society organisations,<strong> assessed progress towards the goal <\/strong>using a baseline of the <strong>average deforestation between 2018 and 2020.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It found <strong>progress was significantly off track,<\/strong> with the level of deforestation in 2023 almost <strong>50% higher <\/strong>than steady progress towards zero would require.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Major Findings<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Shortcomings in Meeting Target:<\/strong> The target for last year was to bring global deforestation down to a maximum of 4.4 million hectares (10.9 million acres).\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The global deforestation remains 45 percent above the levels needed to meet international goals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nearly 96 percent<\/strong> of all deforestation occurred in <strong>tropical regions,<\/strong> and almost all these areas failed to meet their annual targets\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tropical deforestation resulted in the <strong>emission of nearly 3.7 billion metric tons <\/strong>of carbon dioxide-equivalent in 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Loss of Forest: <\/strong>In 2023, the world lost 6.37 million hectares of forest, this loss was 45 percent higher than the goal to eliminate deforestation by 2030.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Primary tropical forests<\/strong>, essential for storing carbon and protecting biodiversity, lost 3.7 million hectares in 2023.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It indicated serious problems in global efforts to stop deforestation and forest damage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Forest Damage:<\/strong> Forest damage without complete destruction is 10 times worse than deforestation itself, affecting 62.6 million hectares in 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Main Drivers: <\/strong>Agriculture, road construction, fires and commercial logging were the main drivers of deforestation across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Positive Progress: Brazil <\/strong>has reduced its deforestation by <strong>9 percent<\/strong> below previous levels, showing that significant progress is possible.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Other countries that made progress towards the 2030 deforestation target included Australia, Colombia, Paraguay, Venezuela and Vietnam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The report also emphasizes the <strong>loss of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs), <\/strong>where more than 1.4 million hectares of forest were lost in 2023.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Protecting these areas is critical for wildlife and Indigenous communities that depend on them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Forest fires<\/strong> are a significant threat, mainly due to intentional land clearing for agriculture.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Since 2001, 138 million hectares of tree cover have been lost to fires, with about a third of that occurring between 2019 and 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The report outlined steps for global actors<\/strong> to achieve forest protection goals, which includes:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ensuring adequate funding for forest conservation efforts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reducing the demand for products that cause deforestation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Recognising the important role of Indigenous and local communities in forest protection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Way Ahead<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ultimately, the challenges outlined in the 2024 Forest Declaration Assessment underscore that achieving forest conservation goals and advancing sustainable economic development are not mutually exclusive.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But success depends on the willingness of governments, industry, and civil society to prioritize forests and integrate sustainable practices at every level.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>With just a few years remaining before 2030, the time to act is now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/forests\/global-deforestation-rates-surge-shows-forest-declaration-assessment-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>DTE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 Forest Declaration Assessment report, &#8220;Forests under fire: Tracking progress on 2030 forest goals,&#8221; was released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30588,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30586\/revisions\/30588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}