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11th Session of the UN Forum on Forests

4-15 May 2015 | UN Headquarters, New York

Highlights for Monday, 11 May 2015

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	An aluminum abstract wall relief by Ezio Martinelli, on the outside of the General Assembly building


	UNFF11 reconvened on Monday, 11 May, to start its second week of deliberations. Delegates convened in working groups to begin the second readings of the draft ministerial declaration and draft resolution. In Working Group 1, delegates broke into a contact group during the mid-morning to, among other things, list overlapping issues with Working Group 2 for the Working Group 1 co-chairs' consideration. Working Group 2 spent the morning and afternoon discussing the draft resolution, with the Secretariat encouraging those present to engage in bilateral discussions to try and reach agreement on bracketed text. A contact group was convened over lunch to try and reach consensus on language for referencing the yet-to-be-adopted post-2015 development agenda and Sustainable Development Goals.
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Working Groups



	A view of the dais during Working Group 1


	Lyubov Polyakova, Ukraine


	Christoph Duerr, Switzerland


	Victor Muñoz, Peru



	A view of the dais during Working Group 2


	Peter Besseau, Canada


	Alexander Buck, IUFRO


	Peter Csoka, FAO



	Contact group convened by Working Group 1

Side Events



	Ecuador organized a lunchtime side event on impacts of National Incentive Programmes for the conservation of its natural heritage.



	IUCN organized a side event on the Bonn Challenge to restore forest landscapes.

Around UNFF11



	Participants after the Bonn Challenge side event



	Small trees on Belmont Island behind the UN hold nests of many Double-Crested Cormorants, like this one taking off from the East River.


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