development assistance

Although overseas development assistance for forests appears to have modestly increased in the past few years, and although many new promising mechanisms and sources are emerging, analysis reveals that the gap between the need and existing funding for sustainable forest management is still very wide— there is a need for substantial new and additional funding from all sources to support sustainable forest management and make implementation the NLBI effective on the ground.

An Input Paper to the UNFF (2003)

The United Nations Forum on Forest's work in support of sustainable forest management (SFM) is guided by its Multi-Year Program of Work comprised of sixteen elements based on the proposals for action of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF) and the Intergovernmental Forum on Forests (IFF). At the third session of the UNFF (UNFF3) "Economic aspects of forests" was one of the major elements for discussion.

Facilitating discussions and coordination between G77 countries for UNFCCC submissions