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Global Goal To End Deforestation Nowhere Near Being Met: Experts

Globally, deforestation is driven overwhelmingly by the expansion of agriculture. (Credit: AFP)

Deforestation "has not meaningfully declined" despite a global pledge to halt forest destruction, but next month's UN climate summit in the Amazon could mark a turning point, experts said Tuesday.

Last year an area of the world's forests larger than Scotland was cleared primarily to make way for agriculture, according to an annual deforestation assessment by a broad global coalition of researchers and activists.

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