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     · International forest agreements (including plans, principles & declarations)

       · United Nations forest-related institutions

         · Other intergovernmental organizations

International forest agreements (including plans, principles & declarations)

    · Also see REDD+ at Forest & climate change page

1977 UN General Assembly Plan of Action to Combat Desertification

1992 Forest Principles

    · Full title: Non-legally binding authoritative statement of principles for a global consensus on the

       management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests

2011 Bonn Challenge

     · a global effort to restore 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested land by 2020 and 350

       million hectares by 2030

2015 Paris Climate Agreement article 5 on Forests

     · To conserve and enhance carbon sinks including forests

2014 New York Declaration on Forests

     · Goal 1 is to at least halve the rate of loss of natural forests globally by 2020 (relative to 2010)

2021 Glasgow Forest Declaration

United Nations forest-related institutions

International Arrangement on Forests

     UN Forum on Forests (UNFF)

     UNFF Secretariat

     UNFF Global Forest Financing Facilitation Network (GFFFN)

     UNFF Trust Fund

UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs

     Forests

UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

     Collaborative Partnership on Forests


     Forestry Department  

     Forests and Climate change


     Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI)

     Global Forest Resources Assessments

     National Forest Monitoring  

     State of the World's Forests (SOFO) reports

Other intergovernmental organizations

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)

     Expert Group on Illegal Logging and Associated Trade (EGILAT)

CIFOR-ICRAF

          · “In December 2021, CIFOR and ICRAF completed a three-year programmatic and  

            operational merger process. While maintaining separate legal entities, CIFOR-ICRAF  

            now operates under a single governing Board and single leadership team, with a joint  

            regional structure and five joint research themes, all guided by the CIFOR-ICRAF  

            Strategy 2020–2030. The functional merger brings together more than 70 years of  

            combined expertise, over 700 staff working in 60 countries across the Global South,  

            offices in 25 countries, 14 host country agreements, nearly 200 active partnerships,  

            and intellectual assets published in some 25,000 research products. CIFOR and ICRAF  

            are CGIAR Research Centers. Born of the merger of the most trusted research  

            organizations on forests and trees–the Center for International Forestry Research  

            (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF)–CIFOR-ICRAF harnesses more than 70 years  

            of combined expertise and extensive partnership networks across Africa, Asia and  

            Latin America.”*

     Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

          COLANDS

                 · Full title: Collaborating to Operationalise landscape Approaches for Nature,  

                       Developmentand Sustainability

     World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF)

          · Formerly the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF)

European Union FLEGT Facility (Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade)

     · "The EU's FLEGT Action Plan was established in 2003. It aims to reduce illegal logging by

       strengthening sustainable and legal forest management, improving governance and promoting

       trade in legally produced timber.”

IUCN

     · Forests

International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation (INBAR)

International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)

    · Encourages investment in timber from sustainably-managed forests

World Bank

     BioCarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes