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Forests Policy & Practice

Tenth Session of the UN Forum on Forests (UNFF10)

8-19 April 2013 | Istanbul, Turkey
 
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Highlights for Tuesday, 16 April 2013
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UNFF10
The tenth session of the UN Forum on Forests continued on Tuesday, 16 April. In the morning, plenary addressed the Forum Trust Fund and heard a briefing on budgetary and legal matters. In the morning and afternoon, the Working Groups (WG) continued their readings of the zero drafts of their decision text. WGI completed its first reading of text on: assessment of progress made on the implementation of the Forest Instrument and towards the achievement of the four Global Objectives on Forests; regional and subregional inputs; forests and economic development; and enhanced cooperation and policy and programme coordination. WGII completed the first reading of text on emerging issues and means of implementation. Under WGII, informal consultations on issues relating to the Ad Hoc Expert Group continued into the evening.

The GEF hosted a side event on SFM for multiple benefits during the lunch period.
Taksim Square, one of Istanbul's main public plazas.
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Report on the Forum Trust Fund by UNFF Director Jan McAlpine
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Jan McAlpine, UNFF Director
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Ivan Koulov, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
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Stadler Trengove, UN Office of Legal Affairs (OLA)
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L-R: Stadler Trengove, UN OLA; Ivan Koulov, UNDESA; Jan McAlpine, UNFF Director; Mario Ruales Carranza, Ecuador, UNFF10 Chair; and Jennifer de Laurentis, UNFF10 Secretary
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Tobias Ogweno, Kenya
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Samuela Lagataki, Fiji
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Charles Barber, US
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L-R: Mario Ruales Carranza, Ecuador, UNFF10 Chair in conversation with Thibault Devanlay, EU
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Working Group I (WGI)
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WGI drafting text
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Christoph Dürr, Switzerland
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Özden Görücü, Turkey
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Georg Rappold, Austria
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Rima Cempaka, Indonesia, for the G-77/China
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WGI Co-Chair Shuli Davidovich, Israel, confers with WGI Co-Chair Anna Masinja, Zambia
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Working Group II (WGII)
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L-R: Henry Tachie Menson, Ghana, in consultation with Hossein Moeini-Meybodi, UNFF Secretariat; WGII Co-Chair Saiful Azam Martinus Abdullah, Malaysia; and WGII Co-Chair Srećko Juričić, Croatia
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Christine Sagno, Guinea
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Nada Ibrahim Mohamed, Sudan
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Laura Rivera Quintanilla, Costa Rica
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L-R: Hamid Al-Sadoon, Saudi Arabia, consulting with Elise Haber, South Africa
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Suchat Kalyawongsa, Thailand
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Silje Trollstøl, Norway
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Se Kyung Chong, Republic of Korea
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L-R: Amber Coyle and Alan Reid, New Zealand
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Bounsouane Phongphichith, Lao People's Democratic Republic
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Martin Cyrille Nkie, Cameroon
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Henry Tachie Menson, Ghana
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Sibylle Vermont, Switzerland
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L-R: Luca Perez and Thibault Devanlay, EU
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WGII dais
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Photos from the Global Environment Facility Side Event on Sustainable Forest Management for Multiple Benefits
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L-R: Sangeeta Sharma, Maria Olivida, and Isabel Alejandrino, UNFF Secretariat
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L-R: Hossein Moeini-Meybodi, UNFF Secretariat; Jan McAlpine, UNFF Director; Mahendra Joshi, UNFF Secretariat; and Peter Csoka, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
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Related Links
UNFF resources

*UNFF10 website

*UNFF10 provisional agenda

*UNFF10 official documents

*UNFF10 provisional organization of work

*UNFF10 Bureau minutes

*Concept note for the ministerial round on forests and economic development

*Concept note for the ministerial roundtable on the Rio+20 outcome and Post-2015 UN Development Agenda

*UNFF10 Voluntary Reports

*UNFF10 side events


IISD RS resources

*IISD RS coverage of the Resumed Third Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Legally-Binding Agreement on Forests in Europe (INC-Forests3), 3-5 April 2013, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

*IISD RS coverage of INC-Forests3, 28 January - 1 February 2013, Antalya, Turkey

*IISD RS summary report of INC-Forests2, 3-7 September 2012, Bonn, Germany (HTML - PDF)

*IISD RS coverage of the Forty-seventh Session of the International Tropical Timber Council (ITTC-47) and Associated Sessions of the Committees, 14-19 November 2011, Antigua Guatemala

IISD RS coverage of UNFF9, 24 January – 4 February 2011, UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America

*IISD RS coverage of ITTC-46 and Associated Sessions of the Committees, 13-18 December 2010, Yokohama, Japan

*IISD RS coverage of Twentieth Session of the Committee on Forestry of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 4-8 October 2010, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy

IISD RS coverage of UNFF8, 20 April - 1 May 2009, UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America

IISD RS coverage of UNFF7, 16-27 April 2007 , UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America

*Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) coverage of forests negotiations

*ISD RS forests webpage

*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
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