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Over 100 global leaders pledge to end deforestation by 2030

A logging truck is pictured among burned trees, felled following last year's Rim fire, near Groveland, California July 30, 2014. [Reuters]

More than 100 global leaders late on Monday pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade, underpinned by $19 billion in public and private funds to invest in protecting and restoring forests.

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