Forest Principles

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The Forest Principles (also Rio Forest Principles, formally the Non-Legally Binding Authoritative Statement of Principles for a Global Consensus on the Management, Conservation and Sustainable Development of All Types of Forests) is a 1992 document produced at the

legally binding document that makes several recommendations for conservation and sustainable development forestry
.

At the Earth Summit, the negotiation of the document was complicated by demands by

Developed nations
resisted those demands, and the final document was a compromise.

Development

The

FOREST EUROPE process (Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe, MCPFE) was started by Strasbourg Conference in 1990 and the Forest Principles were adopted and incorporated into the agenda by Helsinki Conference in 1993. The process covers Pan-European region consisting of 47 signatories (46 European countries and the European Union) that partially overlaps with Montréal Process
region (Russia is a signatory of both processes).

As a result of lobbying by the developing country caucus (or

intellectual property rights; while developed states there rejected demands for a forests fund.[4]

The expert group created under the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) reported in 2004, but in 2007 developed nations again vetoed language in the principles of the final text which might confirm their legal responsibility under international law to supply finance and environmentally sound technologies to the developing world.[5]

The Montréal Process, also known as the Working Group on Criteria and Indicators for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Temperate and Boreal Forests, was started in 1994 as a result of the Forest Principles.

See also

References

  1. ^ "United Nations: Forest Principles". Archived from the original on 2017-07-01. Retrieved 2017-06-28.
  2. ^ "USDA Forest Service - Healthy Forests Initiative". www.fs.fed.us.
  3. ^ United Nations. Non-Legally Binding Authoritative Statement of Principles for a Global Consensus on the Management, Conservation and Sustainable Development of all Types of Forests. A/CONF.151/6/Rev1. United Nations, Rio de Janeiro. 1992.
  4. ISBN 978-1-84407-301-6
    .
  5. ^ United Nations. Non-Legally Binding Instrument on All Types of Forests. United Nations 22 Oct. 2007. A/C.2/62/L.5.

External links

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