The Cooperative Partnership on Forests (CPF), a partnership of 16 global organizations chaired by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), has launched a joint call to action on forests by 2030.
They aim to highlight the need for increased action and political commitment to implement forest solutions in pursuit of the UN-mandated Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
"Green must be the color of the future," FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said during a high-level event on the sidelines of the SDG Summit, to promote the role of forests in achieving sustainable development. Goals
The Call to Action for Forests Towards 2030 has four focal areas: implementation and action. data, science and innovation; Finance for Forestry; and building communication and awareness.
The event, held on 18 September 2023, just before the start of the high-level week of the 79th UN General Debate, was attended by Member States and CPF Agency Heads, who outlined how their organizations and Countries are doing their part to accelerate integrated forest-based actions. Development by 2030.
Mentioning the collaborative efforts over the past 20 years, Dongyu emphasized that efforts to restore ecosystems, combat desertification and expand green areas and forest cover are major opportunities for the world.
The 2023 SDG Summit marks the halfway point in efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda and SDGs, along with other internationally agreed goals on forests, such as the global forest policy set out in the UN Strategic Plan 2017-2030. Forestry targets.
According to FAO's Resources for Forests, the world has lost 420 million hectares of forests to deforestation since 1990, and deforestation continues, although the rate has slowed from 12 million hectares per year from 2010-2015 to 2015. -10 million hectares per year during 2020.
"Progress towards meeting global targets on forest conservation is not moving fast enough, as forests continue to be lost, the effects of climate change and biodiversity loss increase, and malnutrition and hunger increase. All this is being undermined by social and economic instability." FAO
Under the Partnership on Forests, challenges and opportunities in forest conservation, restoration, and sustainable management are identified, and action and ambition are needed.
CPF members pledged to "reinforce action at all levels to fully unlock forestry cooperation for sustainable development and to strengthen efforts at all levels to achieve our shared vision for forests by 2030."
"We will do so in coordination with, and in addition to, the commitments made at the Climate Ambition Summit and the SDG Summit and in anticipation of the upcoming 'Summit of the Future' and negotiations under the Rio Conventions," he added. He added.
