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United Nations Strategic Plan for Forests 2017–2030
The United Nations Strategic Plan for Forests 2017–2030 (UNSPF) provides a global policy framework to guide the sustainable management of all types of forests and trees outside forests and to strengthen their contribution to sustainable development.
The Plan was adopted by the United Nations Economic and Social Council on 20 April 2017 and by the United Nations General Assembly on 27 April 2017, establishing a voluntary and universal framework applicable to all countries.
UN Forest Instrument
The United Nations forest instrument provides countries with a framework for promoting sustainable forest management. The Instrument articulates a series of agreed policies and measures at the international and national levels to strengthen forest governance, technical and institutional capacity, policy and legal frameworks, forest sector investment and stakeholder participation.
Key elements as defined in the United Nations forest instrument are:
Letter dated 29 January 2001 from the Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General: report of the International Expert Consultation on “Shaping the Programme of Work for the United Nations…
Letter dated 29 January 2001 from the Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General: report of the International Expert Consultation on “Shaping the Programme of Work for the United Nations Forum on Forests”(REPORT NOT ANNEXED)
Letter dated 25 May 2001 from the Permanent Representatives of Brazil, Denmark, Malaysia and Norway and the Deputy Permanent Representatives of South Africa and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the United…
Letter dated 25 May 2001 from the Permanent Representatives of Brazil, Denmark, Malaysia and Norway and the Deputy Permanent Representatives of South Africa and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General: Report of the International Workshop of Experts on Financing Sustainable forest Management (REPORT NOT ANEXED)