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The Forest Declaration Assessment 2025
October 20 , 2025
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- The report was released by the Forest Declaration Assessment coalition.
- Global deforestation rates remain dangerously high despite international promises to end deforestation and forest degradation by 2030 made at COP26 in Glasgow.
- In 2024, the world lost 8.1 million hectares of forest, mostly tropical, which is an area roughly the size of Austria.
- Agriculture, including livestock farming and monocrop plantations, accounted for 86% of global deforestation over the past decade.
- Public funding for forest conservation amounts to only 1.4% of the $409 billion spent annually on agricultural subsidies that contribute to forest loss.
- Only 40% of financial institutions exposed to commodity-driven deforestation risks have implemented policies to address and manage these risks.
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