Inaugural meeting of the UNECE/FAO Team of Specialists on

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Inaugural meeting of the UNECE/FAO Team of
Specialists onMonitoring forest resources for
SFM in the UNECE Region

• Areas and modalities of the cooperation between
  the MCPFE and Montréal Process

Roman Michalak
Geneva, Palais des Nations, 25-27 April 2005
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CI for SFM

• United Nations Conference on Environment and
  Development (Rio de Janeiro, June 1992)
• Agenda 21
• Forest Principles
• Second Ministerial Conference on the Protection
  of Forests in Europe - Helsinki 1993

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CI Regional Processes

• International CI initiatives and processes (9)
• the International Tropical Timber Organisation
  (ITTO), the Tarapoto Proposal (Amazon Region),
  the African Dry Zone Process covering the
  sub-Saharan area, the Near East Process, and the
  Dry Forest Asia initiative, the Lepaterique
  Process (Central America), African Timber
  Organization (ATO).
• Working Group on Criteria and Indicators for
  Conservation and Sustainable Forest Management of
  Temperate and Boreal Forests - Montreal Process
  (1994)

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Global consultations (1)

• The "International Conference on the Contribution
  of Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest
  Management The Way Forward" (CICI-2003), held in
  Guatemala City in February 2003,
• seven thematic areas of sustainable forest
  management common to all regional and
  international criteria and indicator processes
• To strengthen collaboration and coordination
  among criteria and indicator processes

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Global consultations (2)

• The Expert Consultation on Criteria and
  Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management
  (ECCI-2004) in Cebu City, Philippines, 2004.
• CI processes are encouraged to hold
  collaborative meetings to address technical
  issues related to terms and definitions.
  Initiatives should be taken by active processes
• Further efforts should be made to harmonize terms
  of common interest between CI processes and FRA.
  The processes should make best use of existing,
  internationally accepted concepts, terms and
  definitions.

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MCPFE

• Work Programme
• SFM related monitoring, assessment and
  reporting through CI co-ordination with
  other CI processes
• ELM, October 2004
• The need for further development of
  co-operation among the MCPFE and other CI
  processes, in particular the Montreal Process

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UNECE/FAO

• Regional reporting (TBFRA)
• 10th meeting of the Team of Specialists on Forest
  Resource Assessment
• Analysis of Scope, Coverage and Methodological
  Approaches for the Regional UNECE/FAO Work on
  Forest Resources Assessment in the Global FRA
  Context - Ewald Rametsteiner

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Montréal Process

• 16th Meeting in Jasper, Alberta, Canada October,
  2004
• To further greater convergence of sustainable
  forest management criteria, the Montréal Process
  will co-host a meeting with the MCPFE and ITTO to
  explore possibilities for common definitions and
  protocols common to our criteria and indicators
  (CI) processes

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• Inter-CI process harmonization workshop
• Bialowieza, Poland, 11-13 October 2005

ITTO, MCPFE, Montréal Process, FAO, UNECE
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Inter-CI process harmonization workshop

• consensus on the meaning of collaboration a among
  the CI processes
• the audience for national sustainability reports
• general model for CI

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Thank you very much!