Forest Declaration Assessment 2022

The Forest Declaration Assessment (formerly the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) Progress Assessment) is an independent, civil society-led initiative to assess progress toward the global goals of

halting deforestation and restoring 350 million hectares of degraded land by 2030 as set out in international declarations such as the New York Declaration on Forests (2014) and the Glasgow Leaders’Declaration on Forests and Land Use (2021). 

-In 2021, deforestation rates have declined at the global level by 6.3 per cent compared to 2018-20 baseline.