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Daily Web Coverage/
Summary Report
IISD Reporting Services (IISD RS) has produced daily digital coverage of this Session and a summary report of it. To download it, please click the HTML/PDF icons below. |
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Resumed Fourth Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Legally-Binding Agreement on Forests in Europe (INC-Forests4)
7-8 November 2013 | Geneva, Switzerland
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Daily web coverage (click on the following links to see our daily web pages
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The Fourth Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Legally-Binding Agreement on Forests in Europe (INC-Forests4) will resume its work from 7-8 November 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland.
The INC-Forests process was launched by the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (FOREST EUROPE) to negotiate a legally-binding agreement (LBA) on forests in Europe with a completion deadline of 30 June 2013. Under the mandate given to it, the fourth session of the INC-Forests is to be the last negotiating session. When it met from 10-14 June 2013 in Warsaw, Poland , INC-Forests4 revised most of the draft negotiating text, including two annexes on arbitration and conciliation. It also discussed, but could not reach final conclusions on, the arrangements for bringing the legally-binding agreement under the UN umbrella, the possible financial and secretariat arrangements, and presentation of the INC-Forests results to the Extraordinary Ministerial Conference expected to take place in Madrid, Spain. As a result of the impasse, INC-Forests4 was “suspended” to allow for more time for negotiations and inter-sessional consultations.
When INC-Forests4 resumes in Geneva, negotiators must not only finalize outstanding issues in the text itself, but they also must decide on institutional and financial arrangements for the agreement and agree on whether the agreement will be a regional or global convention.
IISD RS will provide daily digital coverage and a summary report from this Session. Kindly return to this site on Thursday, 7 November 2013, for more information. |
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| Trees in full bloom outside the Session venue |
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Session resources
 Session website and documents
Annotated provisional agenda
Draft negotiating text
Draft organization of work for the Resumed INC-Forests4
Oslo Mandate
INC-Forests1 website
INC-Forests2 website
INC-Forests3 website
Resumed INC-Forest3 website
INC-Forest4 website
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 INC-Forests4, 10-14 June 2013, Warsaw, Poland
IISD RS coverage of the 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 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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