Forests deliver multiple benefits for people and biodiversity and can help play a critical role in fulfilling countries' climate targets under the Paris Agreeent. But despite commitments to protect them, many Parties have not adequately incorporated forests within their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), the platform for them to communicate their climate targets and actions.
A new report by WWF, Climate Focus and Trillion Trees assesses the extent to which NDCs integrate forest-related measures, and includes 130 NDCs from Parties with greater than 100,000 hectares of forest. Less than half of assessed NDCs set a forest-specific emissions mitigation target and quantitative targets on key forest issues are insufficient. Only 4% of NDCs explicitly include explicit references to deforestation- and conversion-free production or supply chains and many monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) sections lack mentions of forests.
Join us on 11 Feb., 2025 to hear from experts and policymakers on how forest targets can be improved in the leadup to the Climate COP30 in Belem, Brazil. This webinar will feature key findings from the report and a discussion on the steps needed for Parties to take stronger action on forests.
Watch the recordings:
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Panelists
- Cathy Yitong Li, BirdLife International
- Damian Fleming, WWF
- Shirley Matheson, WWF
- Haseeb Bakhtary, Climate Focus
- Prakriti Naswa, NDC Partnership
- Euan McCarthy, UK Government
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Panelists:
- Shirley Matheson, WWF
- Stephen Cornelius, WWF
- Haseeb Bakhtary, Climate Focus
- Dirk Nemitz, UNFCCC
- Euan McCarthy, UK Government
- Janice Weatherly-Singh, WCS