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Membership of IUFRO is open to any institution concerned with the promotion, support or conduct of research related to forests, trees and forest products.
Description
Background: The international forest regime is characterized by a large number of actors, policy instruments and institutions. Increasingly, forests are being dealt with outside the traditional forest sector and by non-state actors (as exemplified by forest certification). As no comprehensive scientific assessment had been carried out about the international forest regime before, this GFEP assessment report aimed to fill this gap based on an assignment given by the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF).
The second assessment report prepared in the framework of GFEP was published in 2011 and formally presented at the 9th session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF), taking place 24 January – 4 February 2011 at the UN Headquarters in New York City.
The IUFRO report "Embracing complexity: Meeting the challenges of international forest governance. A global assessment report." received significant media coverage around the world.
Links to selected media coverage
Reuters (UK) - Link to on-line file
Agence France-Presse - Link to on-line file
ORF (Austria) - Link to on-line file
YLE (Finland) - Link to on-line file
Daily Telegraph Online (UK) - Link to on-line file
Science Daily - Link to on-line file
La Stampa - Link to on-line file
Ecologist - Link to on-line file
Conservation Magazine - Link to on-line file
Council of Canadians - Link to on-line file
Daily Mail (UK) - Link to on-line file
Libération (France)--print - Link to on-line file
BBC "Earth Watch Blog" (UK) - Link to on-line file
EPTV.com (Brazil) - Link to on-line file
Med India - Link to on-line file