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| Highlights from Friday, 15 December |
On Friday, 15 December, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) open-ended ad hoc expert group (AHEG) on the consideration of the content of the non-legally binding instrument (NLBI) on all types of forests concluded its work at UN Headquarters in New York. Delegates completed a first reading of the draft composite text of the NLBI, focusing on, inter alia, monitoring, assessment and reporting, adoption/subscription, and working modalities. Delegates adopted the meeting report, and Chair Hoogeveen gaveled the meeting to a close at 4:43 pm.
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| Pekka Patosaari, Director, UNFF Secretariat, UNFF Chair Hans Hoogeveen, and Jorge Illueca, UNFF Secretariat |
Members of the Brazilian delegation |
| Dutch delegates Patrick V. Verkooijen, UNFF Chair Hoogeveen and Rene Lifeber (left), and Christian Maquiera, Chile (right) |
| Melanie Ashton, ENB, Pierre
Andipatin, Youth focal point for forests, and Reem Hajjar, ENB (left) and McCarhty Oyebo, Nigeria, speaking for the African Group (right) |
| Taina Veltheim, Finland, speaking for the EU (left) and Peter Wood, ENB, with
Barbara Ruis, UNEP (right) |
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