With an aim to increase action for forest preservation, the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) has launched the Joint Call to Action for Forests (JCAF) towards 2030.

The CPF is a partnership of 16 global organizations chaired by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The organization has already identified challenges and opportunities in protecting, restoring and sustainably managing forests, and action and ambition are needed.

The action revolves around four primary focus areas: Implementation and action; data, science and innovation; finance; and communication and awareness, CPF said.

“Green should be the colour of the future,” said QU Dongyu, Director General, FAO. “Progress towards reaching global goals on protecting forests is not advancing fast enough, as forests are still disappearing, climate-change impacts and biodiversity loss are increasing and malnutrition and hunger are rising, all undermined by social and economic instability,” FAO said in a statement.

It must be noted that The 2023 SDG Summit marks the halfway point in achieving the 2030 Agenda and SDGs, while deforestation continues to cause 420 million hectares of forest loss since 1990, despite a slowing rate from 2010-2015 to 2015-2020.