Innovative Financial Mechanisms: Searching for Viable Alternative to Secure Basis for the Financial Sustainability of Forests

A Country Lead Initiative (CLI) in support of the UNFF

PROFOR sponsored this country-led initiative - "Innovative Financial Mechanisms: Searching for Viable Alternatives to Secure Basis for the Financial Sustainability of Forests" - organized by Costa Rica in support of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF). The CLI took place in San Jose, Costa Rica, from March 29 - April 1, 2005 and comprised three working days and a day for field visits to sites see payments for environmental services in action. The meeting is available at: http://www.un.org/esa/forests/pdf/cli/cli_finance_sanjose120405.pdf