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Tuesday, 28 April
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Multi-stakeholder Dialogue
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The conference room during the Multi-stakeholder Dialogue. Major Groups are seated in front of the gallery.
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Natalie Balafa, Children and Youth, presented a statement on behalf of the Major Groups.
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Kanchan Lama, Women.
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Sim Heok-Choh, Scientific and Technological Community.
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Andrei Laletin, NGOs.
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Marcial Arias Garcia, Indigenous People.
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Yasemin Öztürk, Children and Youth.
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Ignacio Martinez de Arano, Farmers and Small Forest Landowners.
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Gustavo Suarez De Freitas, Peru.
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Marlo Mendoza, the Philippines.
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Working Group I: Forests in a Changing Environment
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Working Group I addressed a draft resolution on forests in a changing environment, enhanced cooperation and regional and subregional processes. Delegates negotiated preambular text to the resolution, and began addressing operative paragraphs.
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A view of WGI in the afternoon.
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Working Group II: Means of Implementation
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Working Group II convened briefly in the morning to address forest law enforcement and governance (FLEG), non-financial means of implementation and progress towards SFM.
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Contact Group: Financing for SFM
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A contact group on financing for SFM, chaired by Tri Tharyat, Indonesia, briefly convened in the afternoon. At the start of the meeting, several developed countries expressed concern regarding the organization of the text and requested an adjournment for consultations. Delegates agreed to adjourn the contact group until the following morning.
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Side Events
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Nepal's Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation presented a side event on poverty reduction through forest resources management in rural Nepal, and Nepal Nature Conservation Year 2009.
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The Central African Forestry Commission (COMIFAC) and the Congo Basin Forest Partnership presented a side event on lessons learned from regional forest partnerships, cooperation and position building on REDD and climate change issues in the Congo Basin.
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Around UNFF8
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Flowering trees on the river side of the UN.
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Fazlı Çorman, Turkey, reported on interlinkages between the 5th World Water Forum and UNFF8.
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Mahendra Joshi, UNFF Secretariat, provided a document to WGII Co-Chair Glen Kile, Australia.
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Workmen across the street prepared to throw away an old sink, after learning it wasn't a carbon sink.
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New leaves are appearing on the trees.
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Colombia's Juan Felipe Rengifo reading el Boletín de Negociaciones de la Tierra.
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A few blocks away, activists held a protest about Sri Lanka.
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