PRESS RELEASE

Climate Focus, on behalf of the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) Assessment Coalition is pleased to announce the release of the annual NYDF progress assessment. Drawing on and consolidating data from 12 initiatives by leading think tanks and research organizations engaged in monitoring forest commitments, and incorporating insight from original interviews with corporate sustainability officers, this year’s report focuses on Goal 2 of the NYDF, which calls on companies to end deforestation associated with the production of key agricultural commodities. The report aggregates, cross-references and interprets data from a range of data sources that dive deep into corporate practices and forest-floor developments to provide the most comprehensive assessment of corporate supply chain commitments to date. A second report, released at the same time, provides updates on all ten goals of the NYDF. 

Twelve think tanks and research organizations contributed to the two reports: CDP, Climate Focus, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Forest Trends, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC), Global Canopy Programme (GCP), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Rainforest Alliance, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), The Sustainability Consortium (TSC), Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC), World Resources Institute (WRI) and Global Forest Watch. 

You can access both reports here: forestdeclaration.org