Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People

WFSE events at the IUFRO XXV World Congress in Curitiba, Brazil

In the IUFRO XXV World Congress  WFSE organized a sub-plenary and a technical session to present the main findings and conclusions from the WFSE project’s new book “Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People” (published in Dec. 2019). The book addresses the potential and likely impacts of efforts to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs) on forests and forest-related livelihoods and development. It discusses the context factors that influence how SDG activities are implemented, and the important interconnections and interlinkages among the SDGs and potential or anticipated trade-offs and synergies among the SDGs from the perspective of forests and livelihoods. The book sheds light on how the implementation of the SDGs may influence existing forest-related development scenarios, and affect the roles of forests in sustainable development in the future.

The presentations in the sub-plenary introduced the project and the approach to develop the book, and presented the main findings and conclusions of the book across the 17 SDGs and related targets. The presentations in the technical session focused more specifically on the potential and likely impacts of specific SDGs and the related trade-offs and potentials for positive synergies.
 

Sub-plenary

Introduction – Sustainable development goals: Their impacts on forests and people / Pia Katila, Natural Resources Institute Finland
Multi pathway impacts of the SDGs on forests and people / Wil de Jong, Kyoto University, Japan
The SDGs and their impacts on forest and people – conclusions from a collaborative global book project / Georg Winkel, EFI, Germany
SDG’s impacts on forests: discussion on perspectives to deepen our current understanding / Pablo Pacheco, WWF, USA & CIFOR, Indonesia
 

Technical session

Sustainable Development Goal #1 and forests: Implications of expanding social protection, securing tenure, and building resilience to environmental shocks / Erin Sills, North Carolina State University, USA

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals on food security and nutrition: The impacts on forests and livelihoods / Terence Sunderland, University of British Columbia, Canada & CIFOR, Indonesia

Impact of addressing Sustainable Development Goal 3 Health and Wellbeing on forests and forest people / Rosemary McFarlane, University of Canberra, Australia

“The golden thread”: Sustainable Development Goal 4, Education for all, and forests / Stephen Wyatt, Université de Moncton, Edmundston, Canada 

Taking SDG 5 seriously / Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Cornell University, USA & CIFOR, Indonesia

Decent work and economic growth: Potential impacts of SDG 8 on forests and forest-dependent livelihoods / Dietmar Stoian, World Agroforestry, Germany

Anticipating the potential impacts of sustainable development goal 9 on forests and forest-based livelihoods / Robert Kozak, University of British Columbia, Canada

Impacts of the urban Sustainable Development Goal SDG 11 on forests and people / Tahia Devisscher, University of British Columbia, Canada

Are peace and justice good for forests? An analysis of SDG 16 and its implications for forests and people / Constance McDermott, Oxford University, UK

SDG 17 and sustainable forest management: Strengthening the means of implementation and revitalising the global partnership for sustainable development / David Humphreys, The Open University, UK

Health, gender, equity, and justice: Potential synergies among SDGs / Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Cornell University, USA & CIFOR, Indonesia