Deciding the future of the world’s forests!! UN Forum on Forests 10 and Yale FES
In a few days, a conference that will influence international forest policy and management for the coming years will begin. The United Nations Forum on Forests 10th Session (UNFF10) will take place...
View ArticleUNFF10 Kicks Off in Istanbul
Cross-sectorial linkages and data gaps identified as opportunities for progress Forests are complex. So it comes as no surprise that a major point of deliberation at the 10th UN Forum on Forests will...
View ArticleSIDE EVENT: The “True” Value of Forests
Opportunities and Challenges for Forest Finance Forests contribute approximately one percent to the world’s GDP, a value of nearly $468 billion USD (FAO 2011). This figure only includes round wood...
View ArticleSIDE EVENT: Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry
Findings from a Promising Initiative for Investors, Rights-holders, Governments, and Donors Forests for People – this slogan has circled through the United Nations particularly since the International...
View ArticleScaling Up Private Sector Investment in Forests: The Risks and Rewards
Report back from the Yale/IUFRO Side Event “No one single entity – public or private, domestic or international – can address the challenges facing forests,” said Professor Ben Cashore at the UNFF10...
View ArticleA New Paradigm: Partnerships and Rights in Forest Investments
Report of the Side Event ‘”Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry” by The Forests Dialogue Partnerships for collaborative solutions between investors and rights-holders can mobilize unused natural...
View ArticleStakeholder Involvement at the UNFF: Can Civil Society Truly Participate?
Report from the Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue Organized by the UNFF Major Groups “Major Groups play a crucial role in the UNFF process” UNFF10 chair Mario Ruales Carranza from Ecuador said. Witnessing the...
View ArticleUNFF10 – Ensuring a promising future for the world’s forests?
Nearly 1300 participants took part in the tenth session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF10) in Istanbul from April 8th – 19th 2013. For the first time, the biannual conference took place...
View ArticleFind Your Way – The young generation & UN Forum on Forests
Youth Participation in the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) - We Can Do It?! The UNFF is the international platform of 197 Member States and other stakeholders on all international forest-related...
View ArticleUN Forum on Forests Experts Meet: How did we do?
A week’s conference just passed. Five days of presentations, discussions, proposals, planning, and relationship building. All in the name of eventually designing a new framework for international...
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