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Description
The second workshop for developing the new WFSE publication Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People was organized in Sardinia, Italy, 25-26 September 2018. It brought together the Convening Lead Authors or their representatives and the editors of the book. For two days the 21 participants discussed the SDG Agenda and its interconnections with and potential impacts on forests, related livelihoods and forest related development. The book will be launched at the IUFRO World Congress in 2019.
The WFSE workshop was organized in connection with the European Forest Institute (EFI) Annual Conference and Scientific Seminar titled Forests: Interconnecting Sustainable Development Goals to Action. One of the WFSE editors, Carol Colfer, presented some preliminary results from the WFSE book in this seminar 27 September 2018 (presentation).
Photo credit: Pia Katila, Coordinator of IUFRO-WFSE