Past News Releases & Stories

2007

18 December 2007: General Assembly Adopts Landmark International Agreement on Forests, Setting New Standard for their Management (Press Release)

17 December 2007: General Assembly adopts new agreement to protect world’s forests (UN News Centre)

02 October 2007: ECOSOC to recommend General Assembly’s adoption of the non-legally binding instrument on all types of forests

28 April 2007: UN Adopts new International Agreement on Forests

23 April 2007: Civil Society Groups want decisive action to sustain world’s forests, UN Forum on Forests told as it holds Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue

18 April 2007: UN Forum on Forests holds panel with Collaborative Partnership on Forests, and holds Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue

17 April 2007: Preparations for 2011 International Year of Forests launched by UN Forum on Forests

16 April 2007: UN opens session to negotiate new agreement on forests

16 April 2007: New Agreement on Sustainable Management of World’s Forests focus, as UN Forum on Forests opens two-week session

13 April 2007: UN Forum on Forests seeks to finalize new International Agreement at Headquarters 16-27 April (Background Release)

2006

20 December 2006: UN General Assembly declares 2011 as International Year of Forests

15 December 2006: UN moves forward on New International Agreement on Forests

11 December 2006: Negotiators gather at UN to draft new agreement to manage world’s forests

7 December 2006: United Nations begins drafting New International Agreement on Forests (Background Release)

24 February 2006: Four Global Objectives on Forests Agreed Upon

13 February 2006: UN-backed talks on managing the world’s forests start today

13 February 2006: Sixth Session of UN Forum on Forests opens at Headquarters

9 February 2006: Sixth Session of UN Forum on Forests at Headquarters 13-24 February (Background Release)

2005

26 May 2005: Ministers examine ways to strengthen Sustainable Management of Forests

17 May 2005: 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai tells UN Forum "From smallest to largest, forests must be protected"

13 May 2005: UN forum to review effectiveness of global accord on forests

13 May 2005: Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai to be keynote guest of the UN Forum on Forests (Media Advisory)

12 May 2005: UN Report says Deforestation Continuing at Alarming Rate, as Forum on Forests Meets at Headquarters 16 - 27 May English || French

7 February 2005: Forests Central to Anti-Poverty, Sustainable Development Efforts, says Secretary-General in Message to Brazzaville Summit