Assessing forest degradation

A special CPF study on best practices for measuring forest degradation

Forests and Rio+20

Read the CPF’s Rio+20 submission

CPF brochure

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The CPF Sourcebook

An online database of over 600 sources for funding sustainable forest management

What is sustainable forest management?

CPF releases eight fact sheets on SFM

Global Forest Expert Panels

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The mission of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests is to promote sustainable management of all types of forests and to strengthen long-term political commitment to this end.

CPF News

Trees outside forests produce socio-economic benefits for millions of rural people

New Delhi: Assistant Director-General of FAO and Chair of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, Eduardo Rojas-Briales, talked of the importance of agroforestry to overcoming poverty, climate change and increasing food security at the World Congress on Agroforestry today. “Agroforestry is the single land use that can combine food production with environmental services provided by tree cover in dense populated countries. In a people-centred approach, agroforestry in its 1000 modalities is much more successful in combining diversified food production, fuel for cooking (and heating), building materials, environmental services and resilience both of income, fodder for cattle and disasters including climate change”, he said. [more]

Integrating forests in the sustainable development goals

The Collaborative Partnership on Forests and the Government of Finland held a well-attended side event on integrating forests in the sustainable development goals (SDGs), on the fringes of the 8th Open Working Group meeting at UN Headquarters in New York. CPF Chairperson Eduardo Rojas-Briales and H.E. Jarmo Viinanen, Permanent Representative of Finland to the UN, opened the session explaining the interconnectedness and importance of forests to other issues being discussed in the SDGs – namely oceans, biodiversity and mountains. Participants noted the complexity of integrating forest issues in the SDGs, but noted that with coherent and incentivized goals, forests targets could be included in future SDGs. CPF members will soon issue a document with proposed forest targets, indicators and other background material. [more]

Inaugural Global Landscapes Forum a resounding success

With attendance of more than 1,000 on the first day and 1,200 on the second, representing 122 countries, the inaugural Global Landscapes Forum took place on 16-17 Nov in Warsaw, on the sidelines of the UNFCCC COP19. Read the special GLF wrap-up media release now [more]

World Congress on Agroforestry 2014 registrations and call for abstracts now open

The World Agroforestry Centre and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, together with the Indian Society of Agroforestry and Global Initiatives, will hold the Congress in Delhi, India 10-14 February 2014.The Congress, entitled ‘Trees for Life: Accelerating the Impacts of Agroforestry’ , will draw over 1200 selected participants from the private, research and development sectors to share the current state of knowledge and accelerate the positive financial, environmental and social impacts of agroforestry. [more]

UN honours forest activists, filmmakers and photographers who inspire action

A political activist working to safeguard the Amazon rainforest and a businessman considered the 'grandfather' of the Turkish environmental movement are among the winners of United Nations awards honouring individuals who have done extraordinary work to spotlight the special relationship between forests and people. In addition to five “Forest Heroes” from Brazil, Rwanda, Thailand, Turkey and the United States, the UN Forests for People Awards also recognized filmmakers and photographers for their creative efforts to raise awareness about forests and their contributions to people's lives. [more]

Achievements of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests presented at UNFF10

Istanbul, Turkey : CPF Chair and FAO Forestry Assistant Director-General Eduardo Rojas-Briales presented the achievements and activities of the CPF this morning at the 10th session of the United Nations Forum on Forests. [more]