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2008-10-21
Broad-based consensus of key stakeholders puts forests at the centre of climate debate
In 2007 and 2008, The Forests Dialogue's Initiative on Forests and Climate Change brought together over 250 leaders of environmental and social groups, businesses, Indigenous Peoples' and forest-community groups, trade unions, forest owners, governments, international organizations and NGO's including IUFRO.
In its consensus statement, "Beyond REDD: The Role of Forests in Climate Change," this diverse group agreed on exactly what role forests can play in the battle to halt damaging climate change. The group specifies that sustainable forest management that reduces deforestation and degradation and that actively supports the livelihoods of millions of forest-dependent communities must now be one of the world’s highest priorities. This is because forests and forest products have the unique ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, capture carbon, and lessen peoples' vulnerability to climate change.
For the first time, the group has agreed on five guiding principles for climate
change negotiators, see statement summary.
All materials related to the Forests and Climate dialogue can be found at
http://research.yale.edu/gisf/tfd/climate.html
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2012-05-22
An IUFRO conference on new trends and challenges in forest management with emphasis on human wellbeing and benefits for society organized by BOKU and partners from 22-24 May in Alpbach, Austria.
2012-04-26
Key forest governance experts met with global, national and local foci, and practitioners from Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand to discuss policy integration and stakeholder learning.
2012-04-24
The IUFRO World Congress 2014 will be an opportunity to honour outstanding scientific achievements and contributions to forestry with a range of IUFRO Awards.
2012-04-16
As a partner organization in the Major Groups-led Initiative in support of UNFF, IUFRO will present 3 discussion papers in Rio and is also represented at FAO-ICPFA's "Forests: the heart of a green...
2012-02-28
An IUFRO policy statement adds forest science information to ICSU's "Input for Rio+20 Compilation Document", yet the document still makes little explicit reference to forests.
