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Highlights and images for 13 May 2022

UN Headquarters, New York, and Online

  1. Negotiations
  2. UN Forum on Forests – UNFF
  3. 17th Session of the UNFF
Chair Macintosh in plenary

Chair Miriam Macintosh presiding over the UNFF17 closing plenary

The seventeenth session of the UN Forum on Forests (UNFF17) convened briefly for its final day on Friday, 13 May 2022. Delegates considered the Chair's draft summary on interlinkages between the global forest goals and targets and the Sustainable Development Goals, which will be conveyed to the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) and encompasses UNFF17's input on Sustainable Development Goal 15 (life on land) and other forest-related SDGs. Delegates also considered and approved a draft omnibus resolution on:

  • Implementation of the UN Strategic Plan for Forests (UNSPF);
  • Means of implementation, including operations and resources of the Global Forest Financing Facilitation Network (GFFFN);
  • Monitoring, assessment, and reporting; and
  • Preparations for the midterm review (MTR) in 2024 of the effectiveness of the International Arrangement on Forests (IAF).

An annex to the resolution details proposed actions in preparation for the MTR.

Juliette Biao Koudenoukpo, Director, UNFF Secretariat

Juliette Biao Koudenoukpo, Director, UNFF Secretariat, delivering her closing remarks

Delegates then addressed the remaining agenda items, including the dates, venue and provisional agenda for UNFF18. India asked the Bureau to consider adding two items to that agenda:

  • encouraging forests that are sustainably managed through a technically approved Working/Management Plan to be treated as certified forests and its produce as certified product; and
  • the management, restoration and rejuvenation of water and water bodies, including rivers, as an integral part of the forest ecosystem.
Bureau Member Iran

UNFF17 Vice-Chair Javad Momeni, Iran

Dais with Chair MacIntosh

Dais with Chair Miriam MacIntosh, Suriname, presiding over the closing plenary

Chair MacIntosh promised that the UNFF18 Bureau would consider the proposals.

Following the adoption of the report of the session, and closing remarks, UNFF17 was closed at 10:32 am EDT.

Chair MacIntosh at the close of the session

Delegates congratulate Chair Miriam MacIntosh, Suriname, at the close of UNFF17

UNFF18 was briefly convened to elect by acclamation the new Bureau members, with Zéphyrin Maniratanga (Burundi), nominated by the African States, as chair of UNFF18 and UNFF19. UNFF18 was closed at 10:38 am EDT.

The Earth Negotiations Bulletin summary and analysis of UNFF17 will be available on Monday, 16 May 2022 at https://enb.iisd.org/un-forum-forests-unff-17.

Chair Maniratanga and Chair MacIntosh

L-R: Incoming UNFF18 Chair Zéphyrin Maniratanga, Burundi and UNFF17 Chair Miriam MacIntosh, Suriname

Juliette Biao Koudenoukpo, Director, UNFFS, with Chair Burundi

L-R: Juliette Biao Koudenoukpo, Director, UNFF Secretariat, with incoming UNFF18 Chair Zéphyrin Maniratanga, Burundi 

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UNFF17 Snaphots

EU delegates at UNFF17 

Juliette Biao Koudenoukpo, Director, UNFF Secretariat, receives a token of appreciation from the Turkish delegation at the close of UNFF17

L-R: Agus Justianto, Indonesia with incoming UNFF18 Chair Zéphyrin Maniratanga, Burundi 

L-R: Katie Stokes and Keiran Andrusko, Australia, with UNFF17 Vice-Chair Jesse Mohoney, Australia

L-R: Stefanie Brandsetter and Gerfried Gruber, Austria

Forest publications at UNFF17 

Art installation at UN Headquarters depicting a Tree of global cooperation 

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