The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) hosted a meeting of senior representatives of member organizations of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) to initiate the elaboration of a strategic framework that would provide a coherent inter-agency response to the climate change agenda.

At the meeting, which convened in Rome, Italy, on 17 April 2008, CPF members agreed that the strategic framework would: facilitate countries’ preparations for the post-2012 climate regime through information; contribute to the implementation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFF and other relevant agreements; and enhance coordinated action on the ground, including integration of relevant climate change aspects into sustainable forest management (SFM) in a cross-sectoral and coherent manner. The strategy would give particular attention to specific needs related to deforestation and forest degradation, and would bring together the collective knowledge and experiences of the CPF members in dealing with complex issues such as forest law compliance, support to livelihoods, and integrating conservation aspects into land use planning. (IISD RS sources).