2012 Events

Date: 30 Jan - 3 Feb

Organizer: UNFF Secretariat

Type: UNFF Events

Location: Niamey, Niger

The objective of the workshop was to discuss and validate the findings of the 11 preliminary studies, particularly with regard to identifying gaps, obstacles and opportunities in financing Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) in Low Forest Countries (LFCCs), and hold discussions between participants on basis of the studies and feedback from the first LFCC workshop held in Tehran, Iran. The workshop was also to initiate a network of forest financing stakeholders at the international to lay the basis for sustainability of the project and the implementation of its findings and also contribute to raising awareness about forest financing – one of the main factors currently hampering the allocation of funds to SFM.

Date: 23-27 April

Organizer: UNFF Secretariat

Type: UNFF Events

Location: Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

First workshop on forest financing in Small Island Developing States. This event is co-organized by the Secretariat of the UNFF, the Secretariat of the UNCCD, UNEP and ECLAC Subregional Headquarters of the Caribbean. It is funded by the Global Environmental Facility.

Date: 23-27 April

Organizer: UNFF

Type: UNFF Events

Location: Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

First Workshop on Forest Financing in SIDS, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. This event is co-organized by the Secretariat of the UNFF, the Secretariat of the UNCCD, UNEP and ECLAC Subregional Headquarters of the Caribbean. It is funded by the Global Environmental Facility.

Date: 23-27 July

Organizer: UNFF Secretariat

Type: UNFF Events

Location: Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago’s economy has experienced considerable economic growth from 1995 to 2008. However, significant incidences of poverty and inequality still exist. The structure of the economy and government energy revenues have helped to alleviate possible pressures on forest resources, and have helped to maintain forest cover at substantial levels – close to 50 per cent of the land mass is still covered by forests. In contrast to the overall growth in the economy, the forests sector has been in decline, primarily due to the competitiveness and marginal productivity of labour between the different industrial sectors of the economy. Although forests cover substantial proportions of land, insufficient funds have been spent on forest management. Forest financing is primarily provided from central government revenues, with little linkage to actual forest financing demand and sustainable forest practices. This is due primarily to incorrect price signals and incentives for forest management, including policy ignorance of the total economic values of the forest resources within Trinidad and Tobago. Illegal settlement and indiscriminate use.

Date: 11-14 Sept

Organizer: UNFF

Type: UNFF Events

Location: Lviv, Ukraine

The Permanent Representatives of Ukraine and Switzerland to the United Nations present their compliments to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and have the honour to transmit the enclosed final report entitled “Forests in a Green Economy for Countries in Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia: Lviv Forum” (see annex). In the light of the importance of the report and its relevance to the work of the United Nations, particularly in the field of forests and economic development, we would appreciate it if the present letter and the report were issued as a formal document of the tenth session of the United Nations Forum on Forests. The two countries are further prepared to present their individual experiences with Forests in a Green Economy, in plenary, under one of the agenda items of that session.