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European Union and Zambia Forest Partnership 🇿🇲

The Forest Partnership is a long-term political commitment between the European Union 🇪🇺 and Zambia 🇿🇲, signed at COP 27 in November 2022, to protect, restore and ensure the sustainable use of Zambia’s forests through a comprehensive, holistic and integrated approach, in support of inclusive national development. 

The Partners also agreed on a Forest Partnership Roadmap with targets to be reached by 2030 to help sustain momentum and steer action towards the achievement of the objectives set in the MoU, as well as facilitate the mobilization of appropriate resources and attract the necessary investments:  

     🌳 Increase the area of protected, restored or sustainably managed forests: 
              Sustainably managed forests: 21,336 million ha 
              Planted forests : 0.336 million ha  
              Restored forests: 6 million ha 
     🌳 Increase the number of forest-related decent jobs 1,050,000 
     🌳 Maintain the annual rate of deforestation of natural forests: 86,000 ha/y deforestation  

Useful links : 

• EU-Zambia Forest Partnership Library
• EU-Zambia Latest News
• EU-Zambia Forest Partnership roadmap (signed 8.11.23)  - document and announcement 
• Forest Partnership first signature event at COP 27  November 2022  (Congo, Guyana, Mongolia, Uganda, Zambia)    Video  - Photos  - Press release 
• Forest Partnerships communication materials and documents