Insufficient data means it is difficult to assess progress towards reducing deforestation driven by basic needs, such as subsistence agriculture.
Of all 21 million newly distributed stoves in 2015, 13 million were clean and/or efficient. This total, however, was down from nearly 15 million in 2014.
Between 2012 and 2015, Official Development Assistance for fuelwood declined from USD 81 million to just USD 3.2 million and clean cookstoves offset transactions also decreased from USD 65 million to USD 15 million. Funding to the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves increased by more than USD 6 million in 2015, before declining by USD 4 million the following year.
The Forest Declaration Platform fosters political ambition, scales up and accelerates action, and enables accountability to meet the world's 2030 forest goals.
The Forest Declaration Platform and the Forest Declaration Assessment are supported by The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) of Germany.
Other current and previous supporters of these initiatives include the Climate and Land Use Alliance, the Good Energies Foundation, and the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), which has supported this initiative on the basis of a decision adopted by the German Bundestag.
This project is supported by the Climate and Land Use Alliance and the Good Energies Foundation. Research that contributed to this project is part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI). The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) supports this initiative on the basis of a decision adopted by the German Bundestag.