Forest leaders gathered after a seven-month global dialogue to highlight the central role of sustainable forest management (SFM) in combating climate change.

The meeting, which convened under the auspices of the World Bank and The Forests Dialogue, met on 17-18 September 2008, and agreed on a set of principles for SFM that will be presented at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona in October 2008, and to the 14th session of the UNFCCC in Poznan, Poland, in December. More than 100 leaders and participants from governments, international institutions, the conservation community, indigenous peoples’ groups, forest owners’ associations, research agencies, and the private sector, participated in the meeting.
Links to further information
World Bank Press Release, 17 December 2008
The Forest Dialogue meeting materials