Sustainable forest management

Sustainable forest management

Financing sustainable forest management

Promote genuine community based forest management that empowers forest peoples.

Progress towards sustainable forest management

C. Greater recognition of sustainable forest management and forest products trade

International trade and sustainable forest management

Criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management

(b) Committee on Reforestation and Forest Management

(d) Education Planning and Management

stressing that sustainable forest management plays a key role in fire prevention, and fire prevention is a key component of sustainable forest management,

During its high level segment, the Forum may wish to consider ways to secure increased finance for sustainable forest management through, inter alia, full acknowledgement of national forest programmes in key development planning processes, including poverty reduction strategies and equivalent mechanisms.

(b) Social impact assessment for sustainable forest management

(e) Forest law enforcement, governance and conflict management

(i) Develop financing strategies that outline the short , medium and long term financial planning for achieving sustainable forest management, taking into account domestic, private sector and foreign funding sources

Of particular value is the broadening of the range of stakeholders with an interest in forests and the development of innovative mechanisms for equitable involvement of these stakeholders in the formulation of forest policy and programmes and in forest planning and management.

C. Emerging and critical issues for sustainable forest management

b. Land use planning and management and

Reverse the loss of forest cover worldwide through sustainable forest management, including protection, restoration, afforestation and reforestation, and increase efforts to prevent forest degradation

On the other hand, illegal forest related activities continue to be a major threat to sustainable forest management.

(c) Articulating the concept of sustainable forest management more clearly

(a) To promote sustainable management of tropical timber producing forests, taking into account the contribution of non timber forest products and ecological services to sustainable forest management and

Disincentives for sustainable forest management. The Ad Hoc Expert Group on Finance and Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies also noted that the achievement of sustainable forest management can be greatly hindered by policies established outside the forest sector.

Decentralization processes and the achievement of an appropriate balance between centralization and decentralization of forest related decision making and management are key to making progress toward sustainable forest management.

Forest conservation and management thus are crucial to tackling climate change.

Reverse the decline in official development assistance for sustainable forest management and mobilize significantly increased, new and additional financial resources from all sources for the implementation of sustainable forest management.

we commit ourselves to further improving forest management and intersectoral cooperation in our respective countries and to enhancing regional, including continental, and international cooperation to achieve sustainable forest management worldwide.

(b) Reverse the decline in official development assistance for sustainable forest management and mobilize significantly increased, new and additional financial resources from all sources for the implementation of sustainable forest management

These factors can make unsustainable practices more profitable than sustainable forest management.

(a) Renewing the commitment to make global progress towards sustainable forest management.

(a) Contribution of forests to poverty eradication, including the role of forests in key development planning processes, such as poverty reduction strategy papers and linking aspects of sustainable forest management to the Millennium Development Goals

There are a number of existing international arrangements that have succeeded in strengthening long term political commitment to sustainable forest management and led to significant improvements in national forest policies, legislative frameworks and standards in line with the principles of sustainable forest management.

Statutory planning otherwise known as town planning, development control or development management, refers to the part of the planning process that is concerned with the regulation and management of changes to land use and development.

(r) Strengthen the contribution of science and research in advancing sustainable forest management by incorporating scientific expertise into forest policies and programmes

Implementation of national forest programmes. The proposals for action have effectively shaped the national forest programmes and their equivalents in many countries, and these national forest programmes have become national institutional frameworks for achieving sustainable forest management.

(e) Achieving sustainable forest management also depends on good governance at all levels

Sustainable forest management must be the cornerstone for any future activity of Governments, industries, forest owners, local communities and civil society at large.

(a) Developing partnerships aimed at achieving sustainable forest management, including initiatives among Governments, organizations and other stakeholders, both within and beyond the forest sector

Drawing upon the work of regional processes on criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management, the Forum acknowledged, at its fourth session,5 that seven thematic elements offer a reference framework for sustainable forest management.

Understanding of the concept of sustainable forest management has continued to evolve since 1992.

IPF and IFF agreed on over 270 proposals for action for sustainable forest management.

(d) Consider taking forward productive dialogue and action on financing of sustainable forest management

This encourages unsustainable practices, hampers financing for sustainable forest management and contributes to deforestation.

Sustainable forest management contributes substantially towards achieving many of the internationally agreed development goals.

There is significant knowledge and local institutional capabilities in forest management in these communities.