Biodiversity source material for Tread Softly briefings

18/11/2021: Deforestation has been on an upward trend in the Brazilian Amazon, which accounts for nearly two-thirds of the entire Amazon rainforest, since 2012. It has accelerated particularly sharply under the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro.

Source: Mongabay

One in five hectares of oil palm in Indonesia is illegal

11/11/2021: A Greenpeace report finds that an area of tropical forest the size of Belgium has been replaced by oil palm plantations on land designated by the government as illegal for commercial agriculture. A third of all palm oil companies in Indonesia have illegal operations.

Source: Mongabay

‘Nature-based solutions’ prove divisive at COP26

11/11/2021: Nature-based solutions, like forest protection and mangrove restoration, may be included in a UN climate agreement for the first time. While advocates want to link the climate and biodiversity agendas, critics say nature should not be commodified and human rights safeguards are needed.

Source: Climate Home News

Greenpeace condemns COP26 forest declaration

1/11/2021: Greenpeace has slammed the non-binding status of the Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forest and Land Use. Stronger measures are the only solution to Amazon destruction, the result of deliberate policy choices by the Bolsonaro government in Brazil.

Source: Greenpeace International

World leaders back deal to end deforestation by 2030 (again)

1/11/2021: More than 100 countries, including Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, have signed up to the Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forest and Land Use to stop and reverse deforestation by the end of the decade. A 2014 UN climate meeting in New York issued a similar declaration.

Source: DW

Friends of the Earth calls out "Nature Based Solutions"

27/10/2021: Friends of the Earth International is concerned that big business and governments are able to claim that mass tree planting and other "nature-based solutions" mitigate climate impacts such as industrial agriculture and fossil fuel extraction.

Source: Friends of the Earth International

NGOs say FSC label offers little protection for forests

26/10/2021: The Forest Stewardship Council has come under fire from NGOs for flaws in its certification that fail to prevent deforestation. And companies with questionable human rights records have been awarded certificates.

Source: Mongabay

Forests & climate: we need to do much, much more

20/10/2021: The latest progress assessment of the 2014 New York Declaration on Forests raises concerns that, despite the inclusion of forest protection in the Paris Climate Agreement, emissions trends are heading in the wrong direction, with deforestation and forest degradation continuing on a massive scale.

Source: Inter Press Service

What you need to know about the UN Biodiversity Conference

11/10/2021: The first phase of the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP-15) has begun in Kunming, China. The Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity explains what needs to happen in the negotiations.

Source: UN Environment Programme

Poor progress of New York declaration to halt deforestation

12/10/2021: In 2014, more than 200 governments and organisations signed up to the New York Declaration on Forests, promising to end deforestation by 2030. A progress report on the Declaration found that a majority of forest nations have not embedded those goals in their latest climate pledges to the UN.

Source: Climate Home News

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