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Sustainable forest management seeks to achieve a balance between society’s increasing demands for forest products and benefits, and the preservation of forest health and diversity. Financing this equilibrium requires new approaches to forest sector finance, both in terms of how forest resources and services are valued and the sources of investments in the sector. Emerging climate related initiatives, such as REDD +, have the potential to increase financial flows from the international community to the forests in developing countries but require careful monitoring.
PROFOR explores ways in which new financing instruments, such as payments for environmental services for example, can help make sustainable forestry more profitable than unsustainable forest exploitation.
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