Despite progress in Brazil, forest destruction reaches'stubbornly high' levels. The planet has further lost the equivalent of 10 football fields per minute in virgin tropical forest in 2023.
In total, despite progress in some countries, the world is not on the right trajectory to meet the commitments made at COP26 in 2021, according to the World Resources Institute (WRI) with the University of Maryland. The report focuses on tropical forests, which are more prone to voluntary deforestation and very important from the point of view of biodiversity.