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Summary Report
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Fourth Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Legally-Binding Agreement on Forests in Europe (INC-Forests4)
10-14 June 2013 | Warsaw, Poland
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Highlights for Monday, 10 June 2013
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On Monday, 10 June, the Fourth Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Legally Binding Agreement (LBA) on Forests in Europe (INC-Forests 4) opened in Warsaw, Poland, with welcome statements by Marcin Korolec, Minister of the Environment, Poland, and Janusz Zaleski, Under-secretary of State, Poland. In his opening statement, Jan Heino, Chair of the INC, stressed the challenges facing INC-Forests4, underscoring that “it is 11:55" and most articles in the draft negotiating text contain bracketed passages. Opening statements were also made by the EU, Switzerland and observer delegations.
After adopting its agenda and organization of work, the morning plenary made progress in reaching agreement on text in the Terms and Definitions, Objective, Principles and General Provisions sections, although bracketed text remains in some paragraphs.
During the afternoon plenary, brackets were removed from the articles on forest health and vitality, and on socioeconomic functions of forests, and progress was made on the articles concerning productive functions and forest biodiversity. The afternoon plenary then considered a statement of positions regarding the possible secretariat for the agreement. Most delegates supported a joint secretariat of, at least, the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), but differed on which organization might take the lead or whether they should serve on an equal footing. Chair Heino urged delegates to come up with proposals on how to reach an agreement and offered to make himself available to discuss further steps informally.
In the evening, a contact group met to address some outstanding issues on articles concerning: terms and definitions; principles; forest resources and their contribution to the global carbon cycles; and monitoring and reporting. Poland's Minister of Environment also hosted a reception for delegates.
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| Horn blowers welcome INF-Forests4 delegates. (photo courtesy of INC-Forests Secretariat) |
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Daily web highlights
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Meeting resources
 Session website
Session documents
Session annotated provisional agenda
Draft negotiating text
Oslo Mandate
INC-Forests1 website
INC-Forests2 website
INC-Forests3 website
Resumed INC-Forest3
Other relevant resources
FOREST EUROPE
UN Forum on Forests (UNFF)
UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Forestry Department
IISD RS resources
IISD RS coverage of Tenth Session of the UN Forum on Forests (UNFF10), 8-19 April 2013, Istanbul, Turkey
IISD RS coverage of Resumed INC-Forest3, 3-5 April 2013, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
IISD RS coverage of INC-Forests3, 28 January - 1 February 2013, Antalya, Turkey
IISD RS coverage of Twelfth Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change, 5 November 2012, Washington, DC, United States of America
IISD RS summary report of INC-Forests2, 3-7 September 2012, Bonn, Germany (HTML - PDF)
IISD RS coverage of the FOREST EUROPE Ministerial Conference Oslo 2011, 29 14-16 June 2011, Oslo, Norway
IISD RS coverage of the UNFF9, 24 January - 4 February 2011, UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America
IISD RS coverage of the Twentieth Session of the Committee on Forestry of the FAO, 4-8 October 2010, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy
IISD RS archive of forestry meetings and backgrounder
Forests-L - A news and announcement list on forest policy issues
Forests Policy & Practice - A Knowledgebase of International Activities Adressing Forests Policy
Linkages Update - Bi-weekly international environment and sustainable development news
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