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The Forest Declaration Assessment assesses progress toward the global goals of halting deforestation and restoring 350 million hectares of degraded land by 2030. Global conservation goals include limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C, as articulated in the Paris Agreement and reducing the loss of biodiversity per the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Aichi targets. Halting deforestation and forest degradation as soon as possible, and no later than 2030, will substantially reduce the release of terrestrial GHG emissions to the atmosphere. Restoring forests and other ecosystems will also return significant amounts of carbon to stored biomass and help us realize our collective 2030 targets.