The conference was a country-led initiative (CLI) in support of the work of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF). It was one of Germany’s activities to celebrate the “International Year of Forests”. The conference was organized in close collaboration with the UNFF Secretariat and FAO. The results of the conference will be fed into the preparatory process of the upcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20).

Understanding the roles that forests can play in building a Green Economy is central to the themes of both Rio+20 and UNFF-10 (2013): Rio+20 will focus on the themes of “Green Economy in the Context of Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication” and ”Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development”, while the central theme of UNFF-10 is ”Forests and Economic Development”.

Conference webpage: http://www.forests-in-a-green-economy.de/

see also Conference coverage by IISD: http://www.iisd.ca/ymb/forest/cfge/

Your contact for further information: Ms Cornelia Sepp