KUALA LUMPUR: A rise in huge, opaque infrastructure and mining projects threatens to destroy and open up the world's last remaining rainforests to development, researchers warned on Thursday.
A report assessing progress on the 2014 New York Declaration on Forests - backed by more than 200 countries, companies and green groups - found that its 2020 goal to reduce natural forest loss by at least half would not be met.
Achieving its 2030 target to end deforestation would require an "unprecedented" reduction in the rate of forest loss, said the annual evaluation, led by advisory firm Climate Focus.
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