| Overall themes |
Forests in a changing environment;
Means of implementation for sustainable forest management |
Forests for people, livelihoods and poverty eradication |
Forests and economic development |
Forests: progress, challenges and the way forward for the international arrangement on forests |
Themes
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Forests in a changing environment
- Forests and climate change
- Reversing the loss of forest cover, preventing forest degradation in all types of forests and combating desertification, including low forest cover countries
- Forests and biodiversity conservation, including protected areas
Means of implementation for sustainable forest management
- Decision on a voluntary global financial mechanism/portfolio approach/forest financing framework
An emerging issue may be also considered |
- Community-based forest management
- Social development and indigenous and other local and forest-dependent communities, including forest land tenure
- Social and cultural aspects
International Year of Forests 2011
Assessment of Progress
High-level segment
An emerging issue may also be considered |
- Forest products and services
- National forest programmes and other sectoral policies and strategies
- Reducing risks and impacts of disasters
- Benefits of forests and trees to urban communities
An emerging issue may be also considered |
- Reviewing the effectiveness of the international arrangement on forests and consideration of all future options, as stated by the Council in its resolution 2006/49, paragraph 32
- Reviewing progress towards the achievement of the global objectives on forests and the implementation of the non-legally binding instrument on all types of forests
- Reviewing the contribution of forests and the international arrangement on forests, including the non‑legally binding instrument on all types of forests, to the internationally agreed development goals
High-level segment
An emerging issue may be also considered |
