FINNISH INITIATIVE
- Title:
INTERGOVERNMENTAL SEMINAR ON CRITERIA AND INDICATORS FOR SUSTAINABLE
FOREST MANAGEMENT (ISCI)
- Sponsor
Finland
- Date and Location of the Meeting of the Initiative:
August 19-22, 1996, Helsinki, Finland
- Description of issues:
The Seminar promotes and encourages national implementation of
criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management. It also
studies the feasibility of further development of criteria and
indicators for sustainable forest management and their comparability
and international compatibility.
- Relationship with Intergovernmental Panel on Forests Programme Elements:
The ISCI Seminar will directly promote the substantive preparations
for the programme element III.2.
- Expected results:
The ISCI Seminar will produce comprehensive documentation on the
issue of criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management
and will provide options and opportunities for the use of the Panel.
The Seminar results will be introduced at the Third Session of the
Panel in September 1996.
The objectives of the Seminar are:
* To review the achievements obtained by developing and implementing
criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management at regional
and national levels.
* To encourage development and implementation of national level
criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management, and their
use as a policy instrument for assisting decision making.
* To promote comparability and international compatibility of
criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management.
Special emphasis will be given to the specific regional and sub-
regional conditions of forests and the diversity in economic social
and cultural environments.
- Expected Date of Completion of the Reports and Languages:
- Background papers including the identification of needs for future
action, June 1996 in English and French.
- Seminar documentation in English during the Seminar.
- Summary report of the Seminar including the conclusions and
opportunities and options for future action on criteria and
indicators English and French.
It will be introduced at the Third Session of the IPF in September
1996.
- Final report of the Seminar, October 1996, in English and French
including:
1) A comprehensive report on the issue of criteria and indicators;
i.e. background papers
2) Seminar Conclusions, and Options and Opportunities for future
action.
- Process in Pursuing the Initiative:
A group of international experts and key persons (International
Contact Group), consisting of representatives from developing and
developed countries, the IPF Secretariat and intergovernmental and
non-governmental organisations has been collaborating with the
chairman of the ISCI Seminar in the preparation of the Seminar. This
group met for the first time in New York during the First Session of
the Panel. The second meeting of the group was organised in Finland
on December 17-18, 1995. The third meeting is planned to take place
during the Second Session of the IPF in Geneva in March, 1996.
In Finland, an inter-ministerial working group has been established
to give guidance for the preparation of the ISCI Seminar.
- Participants:
Representatives of countries participating in the work of the CSD and
the Panel, as well as other interested countries, pertinent
international organisations and non-governmental organisations, and
invited experts. Participants will be senior civil servants in
charge of forest policy, leading specialists and researchers,
representatives of organisations and representatives from the private
sector. Estimated number of participants is 150-200. Detailed
information including the Programme of the Seminar, information on
practical arrangements and a registration form for the Seminar and
for the field excursion will be published and sent to countries in
March 1996.
- Contact Persons:
Mr. Heikki Granholm, Project Coordinator ISCI Secretariat
Tel: 358 0 160 2431 Tel: 358 0 160 2405
Fax: 358 0 160 2430 Fax: 358 0 160 2430
e-mail: e-mail:
heikki.granholm@mmm.agrifin.mailnet.fi isci@mmm.agrifin.mailnet.fi
Mr. Pekka Patosaari, Director Address:
Tel: 358 0 160 3353 Ministry of Agriculture
and Forestry of Finland
Fax: 358 0 160 2400 Department of Forestry
e-mail: P.O. Box 232, FIN-00171
pekka.patosaari@mmm.agrifin.mailnet.fi Helsinki, Finland
Ms. Marja Lehto, Counsellor
Mission of Finland
New York, NY, USA
Tel: 1 212 355 2100
Fax: 1 212 759 6156
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