Established in 2000, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) is an ECOSOC commission charged with strengthening long-term political commitment to the management, conservation, and sustainable development of forested ecosystems across the globe. As of 2025, the UNFF’s member states should be over halfway through realizing the six Global Forest Goals outlined in the UN Strategic Plan for Forests that ECOSOC adopted in 2017 as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. And nowhere is the achievement of these goals as critical to combating the ongoing climate crisis as the world’s largest and most biodiverse rainforest: the Amazon. Over 6 million sq. km. large, the Amazon is the planet’s largest carbon sink; however, ongoing deforestation from activities like illegal logging and unsustainable cattle ranching, have caused some portions of the forest to now emit more carbon emissions than they absorb. That said, while addressing this troubling trend, delegates must also consider Amazon’s role as a key driver of continent-wide economic growth, with hundreds of millions of people relying on its diminishing abundance of natural resources every day.