Global leaders are now 63% off target to end deforestation by 2030, a new Forest Declaration Assessment has declared, after it found that 8.1 million hectares of forest were permanently lost in 2024 — half the size of England. Wood Central understands that loss exceeded the annual limit compatible with the 2030 goal by 3.1 million hectares and outpaced the rate recorded in 2021, when governments renewed commitments first made in 2014, underscoring a widening gap ahead of COP30 in Belém, Brazil.
Wood Central: Global Deforestation Pledges Collapse as 8.1m Hectares Lost in 2024
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