3 February 2011: The World Future Council announced that its Future Policy Award for 2011 will be presented to the world’s most inspiring, innovative and influential laws on forest protection.

The Awards will be presented in September 2011 in New York, at a reception hosted by the World Future Council and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). With its Future Policy Award, the Council celebrates the world’s most exemplary national policies that create better living conditions for current and future generations and that produce practical and tangible results. The Award topics, on which policy progress is particularly urgent, are chosen on an annual basis. In close cooperation with civil society, parliamentarians, governments, business and international organizations the World Future Council identifies future just policies around the globe. The World Future Council is registered as a charitable foundation in Hamburg, Germany. [CBD Press Release][World Future Council Press Release]