The loss of the world’s tropical primary forests increased 10 per cent year-on-year in 2022, with tree cover equivalent to the size of Switzerland destroyed globally, according to new research.
The increase came despite a pledge made by 145 countries the previous year to halt deforestation by 2030, according to the report published on Tuesday by the University of Maryland and the World Resources Institute’s Global Forest Watch.
Brazil signed the COP26 pledge in 2021, but the largest loss of tropical primary forest — occurring in areas of natural, mature forest cover that have not been cleared in recent history — took place in the country during former president Jair Bolsonaro’s final year in office.
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