The COP30 Presidency Roadmap on Enhancing Efforts towards Halting and Reversing Deforestation and Forest Degradation by 2030 has been launched this week.
It brings together evidence, experiences and solutions to inform discussions on how implementation can be accelerated through 2030 – if the current rate of deforestation continues, we could lose global forests the cumulative size of the UK.
The roadmap encompasses three parts – national efforts to half and reverse deforestation and degradation, international architecture for forest action and financing forest action.
The topic of financing forest action has been one on the tongue of many wildlife and forestry activists recently, especially following WWF’s findings that nature-based climate solutions are held back by funding.
Damian Fleming, Senior Director, Forests, WWF International, said: “The Forest Roadmap gets many of the fundamentals right: governance, enforcement, rights, finance and the need to tackle degradation as well as deforestation. The challenge now is speed. With 2030 only a few years away, implementation cannot remain voluntary in spirit and fragmented in practice.
“Countries now need to use it to turbocharge action for results on the ground. Deforestation- and conversion-free supply chains and governance must be at the center of action and incorporate the rights, voices and livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples and those of local communities.”
As the world turns to nature-positive transport and global standardisation for nature protection, anti-deforestation action is being taken at a rate never seen before.
Only time will tell if COP31 offers more support towards deforestation and degradation.
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