Extractive industries and infrastructure-driven deforestation - Progress since 2014

A fundamental realignment of economic pathways and incentives is needed.

Governments must
• Implement alternative development pathways that are less dependent on resource exploitation in natural ecosystems
• Ensure that land use planning processes are transparent and inclusive
• Strengthen and enforce environmental regulations for these sectors

Companies must
• Collaborate within and across sectors to address direct, indirect, and cumulative risks for forests and IPLCs
• Establish and report against timebound and specific forest commitments
• Fully respect IPLC rights in line with international best practice

Financial actors and institutions must
• Align financing and investments with forest goals
• Adopt, respect, and report on safeguards that consider direct, indirect, and cumulative risks for forests and IPLCs.
• Divest from projects in contention with sustainable development goals