Government forestry agencies and large forest conservation organizations may depend on money, but forest conservation and restoration will simply happen for free, provided that forests are not destroyed by human activity.īiologically speaking, of course forests don’t grow on money-they were perfectly capable of conserving and restoring themselves for millions of years before money was even invented. Obviously, the relationship between forest sector investment and forest conservation is ambiguous to say the least. While a few countries that received significant forest conservation funding and other forest investments had halted or reversed forest loss (such as China), many countries that had received hardly any investments in their forest sector, including least developed countries, had a stable or even growing natural forest cover. 1Ī 2015 comparative analysis 2 of the relationship between investment in the forestry sector and forest conservation in 19 countries that successfully halted and reversed forest cover loss found no statistical relationship. One of the biggest misconceptions in forest conservation policy is the assumption that forests grow on money. Introduction: On forests, finance and perverse partnerships By Simone Lovera, Global Forest Coalition, ParaguayĬattle fleeing fires on a ranch that was once forest. Conclusion: The vicious cycle of corporate capture of policy-making and perverse incentives for forest destruction.Drax and the art of corporate capture: Subsidising the world’s largest biomass power station.The corporate capture of climate policy and finance: driving investments in tree plantations and bioenergy instead of forest restoration.The capture of policy-making by the pulp and paper industry is driving mega-fires in Portugal and land grabbing in Mozambique.Portucel Moçambique: Your profit is not our development!.How EU agribusiness frustrated the reform of the most perverse incentive of all: The Common Agricultural Policy.Incentives for intensive animal agriculture clash with forest protection in Nepal.The livestock sector in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo: Corruption, poor governance and a brutal disregard for human rights.Brazil’s unsustainable agro-industrial supply chain and perverse incentives against forests and human rights.Livestock farming and privilege in Paraguay: Destruction and injustice.Argentina on the brink: Subsidies and state support for industrial livestock and feedstock farming are destroying wetlands.Introduction: On forests, finance and perverse partnerships.Télécharger en français ( haute qualité 15.5MB | basse qualité 1.6MB) The report is being launched in English, Spanish, French, Russian and Portuguese (three articles) during a webinar on 21st January – we hope you can join us!ĭownload the report in English ( web quality 15.5MB | low resolution 1.6MB)ĭescarga en español ( alta calidad 15.5MB | baja calidad 1.6MB)ĭescaregar em português ( alta qualidade 5.2MB | baixa qualidade 0.5MB) The report concludes that the only way to stop deforestation is to break the vicious cycle of corporate influence over public policy-making and the support for harmful industries that it creates. Examples from Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa show how entrenched these incentives are due to the corporate capture of decision-making both domestically and internationally. It includes analysis by member groups and close allies in nine different countries on incentives for the expansion of unsustainable livestock farming, commercial tree plantations, bioenergy generation and other industries driving forest loss.
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Our new report in our Forest Cover series analyzes the self-reinforcing cycle of the corporate capture of government policy-making and perverse incentives that harm biodiversity. Circular economy or vicious cycle? How corporate capture of policy-making and perverse incentives are driving deforestation
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