COP26 Deforestation Pledge Will not Cut Global Lumber Supply
Nov 16, 2021
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Over 120 countries signed the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use, a voluntary commitment to halt deforestation. The world’s top lumber suppliers, such as Canada, Russia and Sweden, are among the signatories, as well as those countries with the highest rates of tropical forest loss - Brazil and Indonesia. Based on experience from a similar 2014 agreement signed in New York, the obligations will not force suppliers to significantly slow their pace of deforestation but rather instigate an increase in planting new trees to replace those cut down.
