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Description
The WFSE Session in the IUFRO Regional Congress for Asia and Oceania focused on different forest-related approaches and mechanisms employed in Asian countries to steer development and investment towards a green economy and sustainability. It discussed how these concepts are understood and applied in different contexts and their potential for advancing sustainable development.
Presentations
- Forests in the green development discourses and the need for ground thruthing - Wil de Jong, CIAS, Kyoto University, Japan
- Corporate commitments to sustainability: New discourses and praxis in oil palm production in Indonesia - Pablo Pacheco, CIFOR, Indonesia
- Payments for forest ecosystem services in Mainland Southeast Asia: from ideas to practice - Pia Katila, Natural Resources Institute, Finland
- From REDD+ performance to Green promises: Implications of joined discourses for policy implementation - Pham Thu Thuy, CIFOR, Vietnam
- Are Sustainable Development Goals and Sustainable Forest Management converging in Asia? Synthesis and remaining questions - Glenn Galloway, University of Florida, USA