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UNFF Sessions
UNFF8 Agenda
UNFF
EIGHTH SESSION
20 April - 1 May 2009
United Nations,
UNHQ, New York
Draft provisional agenda
- Election
of officers
- Adoption
of the agenda and other organizational matters
- Achieving the four global objectives on forests and implementing the non-legally binding
instrument on all types of forests.
- Regional and sub-regional inputs
- Forests in a changing environment:
a. Forests and climate change
b. Reversing the loss of forest cover, preventing forest degradation in all types of forests and combating desertification, including low forest cover countries
c. Forests and biodiversity conservation, including protected areas
- Means of implementation for sustainable forest management:
a. Applying means of implementation, including financial resources, capacity-building and the transfer of environmentally sound technology;
b. Decision on voluntary global financial mechanisms, a portfolio approach and a forest financing frame work
- Multi-stakeholder dialogue
- Enhanced cooperation and policy and programme coordination, including the provision of further guidance to the Collaborative Partnership on Forests.
- Dates and venue for the ninth session of the Forum
- Provisional agenda for the ninth session of the Forum
- Adoption of the report of the Forum on its eighth session

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