The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and other international organizations are organizing this full-day side event during the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20). The event will highlight the role of forests and industry in fostering local livelihoods at the resource base and in enabling product transition to a low-carbon bio-economy among consumers, and will cover the following themes: the role of the forest sector in emerging bio-economies; forest certification; and contributions of forest industry in rural development.  

date: 18 June 2012   venue: Ribalta   location: Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro), Brazil   contact: Jukka Tissari   phone: +39 06 57054179   fax: +39 06 57052151   e-mail: Jukka.Tissari@fao.org   www: http://www.fao.org/forestry/trade/76571/en/