Year of publication 2004

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Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

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Category Meeting document

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Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) The international forest community, through sustained dialogue over the last ten years, has achieved a great deal. These positive results build on the forest outcomes of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED): the Forest Principles1, relevant chapters of Agenda 21, and the conventions covering biological diversity, climate change and desertification. 2. The dialogue is continuing in the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) with efforts now focusing on the im plementation of sustainable forest management through nearly three hundred proposals for action. In this regard, the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) that FAO chairs is playing a key role. Its fourteen members, comprised of international organizations, institutions and secretariats, are enhancing cooperation and coordination within and outside the forest sector at global, regional and national levels like at no time in the past. 3. Despite these and other positive developments, de forestation and forest degradation are continuing at alarming rates, especially in tropical developing countries. As worrisome is the fact that the environmental, economic, social and cultural aspects of forests are still too often dealt with in an uncoordinated fashion. Thus, the forest community must strengthen its collaboration with partners, including those outside the sector, to bring about needed change.

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Language English

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Also available in:

• French

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