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INTERGOVERNMENTAL WORKING GROUP ON FORESTS (IWGF) REPORT

Other elements

Other elements are:

§ the need for a number of studies of:

§ the ways in which forest conservation is affected by measures taken for the rehabilitation of degraded lands and greater agricultural productivity;

§ the adequacy of the information and knowledge base for forest management and conservation and how it might be improved ;

§ the global forest cover needed in the future to provide for all the productive, protective and environmental functions of forest;

§ the implications of, and opportunities provided by, the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Conventions on Biological Diversity and on Combatting Desertification for the management, conservation and sustainable development of forests ¾ how much, where and priorities;

§ opportunities for value-added downstream processing, and the related research;

§ possible methodologies to integrate environmental costs and benefits into markets;

§ the importance of taking account, in each instance, of the fundamental causes of forest loss and deterioration;

§ the need to base action upon the specific ecological, cultural and socio-economic conditions of the locality, and to involve local people throughout;

§ the importance of incentives ¾ involvement of local communities, the private sector etc.;

§ giving an appropriate return to local communities, including indigenous people, for the use of their knowledge of the special properties of plants and animals, for example, by recognising intellectual property rights;

§ the importance of reliable and widely disseminated information on forest resources, biological diversity, effective management techniques etc.;

§ the availability of resources and institutional capacity to support national action;

§ international cooperation, and financial and technological support;

§ the need for the price of forest products to reflect fully both their environmental costs and the costs of their replacement.