As part of Global Landscape Forum’s Biodiversity Conference in November 2020, Y4N Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, Vinamra Mathur, joined forest experts from around the world for a panel titled: For forests’ sake: Transforming extractive industries and infrastructure to achieve NYDF Goal 3.
The panel addressed the urgent need for transforming approaches to planning and implementing large-scale development projects and the role of forests and the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) post-2020. The discussion focused on:
promoting transparency and accountability in mining and infrastructure sectors;
safeguarding Indigenous people’s rights;
building incentives for responsible sourcing; and
reshaping the NYDF and international commitments including the youth’s perspective.
This session was able to heighten awareness of the compounding threats to forests and large-scale infrastructure development and natural resource extraction, and the relative lack of transparency and accountability in these sectors.
For more on this session, read the event recap here or watch the event recording below!