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<p>The UK continues to take a leading role in working with global partners to halt
and reverse forest loss. At COP26, the UK led the way in securing an agreement from
over 140 world leaders, representing over 90% of the world’s forests, to halt and
reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030 under the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration
on Forests and Land Use. This was backed by almost £14 billion of public and private
funding, including $1.5 billion to protect the forests of the Congo Basin, an area
of critical importance to global efforts to address climate change.</p><p>In February
2021, the UK and Indonesia established the Forest, Agriculture and Commodity Trade
(FACT) Dialogue, bringing together major producer and consumer countries of agricultural
commodities to protect forests while promoting development and trade. At COP26, 28
governments including Indonesia, Colombia, Brazil, Ghana, the EU, UK and USA launched
the FACT Roadmap, committing to advance sustainable production and trade, and outlining
actions to incentivise sustainability, support smallholder farmers, improve transparency
of supply chains and drive innovation.</p><p>The UK has introduced ambitious due diligence
legislation through the Environment Act to help tackle illegal deforestation in UK
supply chains. This new law is one part of a wider package of measures to improve
the sustainability of our supply chains and will contribute to global efforts to protect
forests and other ecosystems. It will make it illegal for larger businesses operating
in the UK to use key forest risk commodities produced on land illegally occupied or
used.</p><p> </p><p>We have also doubled our international climate finance to £11.6
billion, of which at least £3 billion will be spent on nature, including solutions
that protect, restore and sustainably manage forests. FCDO, BEIS and Defra share the
forests portfolio which aims to specifically reduce emissions from deforestation and
land use change and help forest communities adapt to climate change through sustainable
farming and land use practices.</p><p> </p>
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