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The report "Forest and Water on a Changing Planet: Vulnerability, Adaptation and Governance Opportunities. A Global Assessment Report" and its launch received significant media coverage around the world. The coverage included articles by e.g. IISD Reporting Services, Mongabay, Jakarta Post, Himalayan Times, Canada’s National Observer, SciDev.Net, Yale360, Saturday Star, Australian Associated Press, ESI Africa, Europa Press and many others.
In order to promote the process, launch and outcomes of the 6th scientific assessment, undertaken in the framework of the Global Forest Expert Panels (GFEP) initiative on the topic of “forests and water”, IUFRO prepared and organized the following outreach and media activities, an overview of outreach activities and a selection of media coverage can be found in the full PDF report below.
Excerpt of media coverage report
Promoting the assessment at several international events
Global Landscapes Forum, GLF 2017 (19-20 December 2017) in Bonn, Germany. IUFRO, together with CGIAR’s Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) and SIANI, organized a Discussion Forum “Rainfall Recycling as a Landscape Function: Connecting SDGs 6, 13 and 15”. Blog post: http://blog.iufro.org/2018/01/24/ftaand-iufro-highlight-cooperation-at-global-landscapes-forum/
“GFEP meets Scientists and Students” (18 January 2018) in Vienna, Austria. On the sidelines of the 3 rd Meeting of the Expert Panel on Forests and Water in Vienna, IUFRO in collaboration with the International Forestry Students’ Association’s Local Committee in Austria (IFSA LC BOKU), organized an informal meeting and knowledge exchange between the GFEP Panel Members, scientists and students. The event was kindly hosted by the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU).
13th session of the United Nations Forum on Forests, UNFF-13 (7-11 May 2018) in UN Headquarters in New York, USA. In addition to the statements by the IUFRO delegation, one of the GFEP co-chairs, Prof. Meine van Noordwijk was invited to serve as panelists in the “Panel Discussion on the Contribution of Forests to the Achievement of the SDGs and Transformation towards Sustainable and Resilient Societies”. The Panel Discussion also included another GFEP member, Dr. David Ellison. He had been tasked by the UNFF Secretariat to produce a background study on the topic of “forests and water” to be presented at the UNFF-13. The study, entitled “From Myth to Concept and Beyond – The BioGeoPhysical Revolution and the Forest-Water Paradigm”, was partly based on the GFEP report. Building up the media interest towards the launch:
- Video #1: Interviews with GFEP Expert Panel Members (Dr. Daniel Murdiyarso and Prof. Caroline Sullivan) on the role of forests and water for cities, on the occasion of the International Day of Forests (IDF on 21 March 2018) and the World Water Day (WWD on 22 March 2018): https://youtu.be/qd1YJ7aoYG0
- Video #2: Interviews with the co-chairs of GFEP Expert Panel (Prof. Irena F. Creed and Prof. Meine van Noordwijk) on the importance of the topic and the relevance of the assessment: https://youtu.be/DL2N7W7BXKE
- IUFRO social media accounts in Twitter and Facebook were used repeatedly to inform on the upcoming launch of the report
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