In addition, considerable efforts are being made to improve natural forest management and recover forest loss through the Forestry Incentives Programme of the National Forestry Institute (INAB).

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

Forest products, coffee, palm oil, palm heart and natural rubber grown under ecologically sustainable agro forestry and forest management systems, processed and marketed through agro industries with farmer participation, have proved to be the most viable alternatives.

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

Some of the specific measures we have taken include proper management of forest resources, the sustainable use and management of natural resources and, above all, ensuring that there is an adequate legal and institutional framework.

(b) Social impact assessment for sustainable forest management

(e) Forest law enforcement, governance and conflict management

Integrated natural resource management

9. Underlines the importance of sustainable forest management, the avoidance of deforestation, as well as the restoration of lost and degraded forest ecosystems of mountains in order to enhance the role of mountains as natural carbon and water regulators

At the national level, important developments have included the formulation and implementation of national forest programmes and reforms in national legislation dealing with forests, land use and natural resources, as well as decentralization and the devolution of forest management to communities.

C. Emerging and critical issues for sustainable forest management

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

Restoring proper management of natural resources

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.

With regard to the regeneration of the natural environment, the most important initiatives include reforestation, reclamation of degraded lands, protection of lowlands, the cutting of firebreaks and the development of forest stands with a view to the sustainable management of natural resources.

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.

Using space technologies for natural disaster management

(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.

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.

(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.

Examples include natural fibres, organic agricultural products, recyclable and biodegradable products or sustainably produced forest products.

(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