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Forests Policy & Practice

Metsä2013 - Joint Session of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) European Forestry Commission

9-13 December 2013 | Rovaniemi, Finland

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Highlights for Monday, 9 December 2013
Opening session
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From L-R: Eduardo Rojas-Briales, Head of the FAO Forestry Department; Co-Chair Andrey Filipchuk, Deputy Director of the Russian Federal Forestry Agency; Alexander Panfilov, Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Forestry Agency; Chair of the Opening Ceremony Juha Ojala, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Finland; Co-Chair Heikki Granholm, Director of the Natural Resources Department, Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry; Sven Alkalaj, Executive Secretary, UNECE
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Chair of the Opening Ceremony Juha Ojala, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Finland
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Santa Claus
Esko Lotvonen, Mayor of the city of Rovaniemi
Sven Alkalaj, UNECE Executive Secretary
Eduardo Rojas-Briales, Head of the FAO Forestry Department
Vera Chapchikova, winner of the 10th International Junior Forest Contest
Paola Deda and Dominique Reeb, UNECE/FAO
Jürgen Blaser, Bern University of Applied Science and Swiss Global Forest Advisor
Janusz Zaleski, Polish Deputy Minister of Environment
Magnus Kindbom, Swedish State Secretary of Rural Affairs
Alexander Panfilov, Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Forestry Agency
Public opening ceremony
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Following the official Opening Ceremony, delegates took part in a public, outdoor opening ceremony at the Museum Arktikum in Rovaniemi, where they enjoyed local music and drinks in a scenic winter setting.
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Around the venue
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Session resources

*Session website and documents

*Session agenda

*Draft UNECE/FAO Action Plan for the Forest Sector in a Green Economy

*Draft Integrated Programme of Work 2014-2017 for UNECE/FAO

*Side and parallel events


IISD RS resources

*IISD RS coverage of the 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

*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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