The commitments, in particular financial, announced at the end of 2021 at the climate conference in Scotland (COP26) to protect the forests, have so far not materialized.
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It was a year ago during the COP26 for the November 2021 climate in Scotland. One hundred and forty-five states were committed, through the “Glasgow Declaration”, to put an end to deforestation and the degradation of land by 2030. An essential condition to hope to reach carbon neutrality in 2050 , but also to stop the erosion of biodiversity.
“Glasgow’s declaration was a great moment, it was the first time that such a commitment was made by so many countries, recalls Erin Matson, consultant for the Consulting Company CLIMATE FOCUS. A year later, As COP27 approaches, we wonder: what has become of these promises? The short answer is that the States are not on the right trajectory to reach the objective for 2030, even if modest progress has been recorded. “
According to an “Assessment of the Declaration for Forests” published Monday October 24, carried out by Climate Focus in partnership with civil society organizations, deforestation decreased by 6.3 % in 2021 compared to the deforestation rate Means for the period 2018-2020. To stop the phenomenon by the end of the decade, overall deforestation should decrease by 10 % each year. “Given that all the indicators of forest change fluctuate fairly strongly from one year to another, a clearer image of progress or the lack of progress will emerge over the years,” said the study. “Whenever you do not reach 10 %, this requires even more important efforts in the following years to make up for the delay,” adds Erin Matson.
The good trajectory of the ‘Tropical Asia
About 6.8 million hectares disappeared in 2021, an area equivalent to that of Ireland, which caused the issue of 3.9 gigatons of greenhouse gases. In humid tropical forests, particularly precious for climate and biodiversity, the decline was only 3.1 %. Brazil, Bolivia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Paraguay, four of the five states where deforestation is the most important, have still experienced an increase in it.
Only one region, tropical Asia, is on the right trajectory for 2030. In Indonesia in particular, deforestation has decreased continuously in the past five years – the country has not, however, renewed, in 2021, A moratorium that suspended any provision of New Earth for the planting of oil palm. In Africa, improvements have also been noted in Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire or Uganda and Tanzania. “We have observed real progress when governments, private actors and civil society have collaborated to act daring and determined, specifies Erin Matson. It is this type of actions that must be generalized.”
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