Forests UN Entities
United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF): http://www.un.org/esa/forests/index.html
UN Observances
International Day of Forests – 21 March: http://www.un.org/en/events/forestsday/ http://www.un.org/esa/forests/international-day-of-forests/index.html http://www.fao.org/forestry/international-day-of-forests/en/ International Year of Forests 2011: http://www.un.org/en/events/iyof2011/ The International Day for Biological Diversity, 22 May 2011 – “Forest Biodiversity: Earth’s Living Treasure”: http://www.cbd.int/idb/2011/ World Environment Day, 5 June 2011 – “Forests: Nature at your service”: http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=664& ArticleID=6917&l=en
Selected UN Documents
Non-Legally Binding Instrument on All Types of Forests (NLBI): http://undocs.org/E/CN.18/2007/8(SUPP) “Forest Principles” (Non-legally Binding Authoritative Statement of Principles for a Global Consensus on the Management, Conservation and Sustainable Development of All Types of Forests (1992)): http://www.un.org/documents/ga/conf151/aconf15126-3annex3.htm Chapter 11 of Agenda 21 - Combating Deforestation: http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/res_agenda21_11.shtml Forest Milestone Documents: http://www.un.org/esa/forests/about-history.html Documents and Reports of UN Forum on Forests: http://www.un.org/esa/forests/documents-unff.html Documents and Reports of the Intergovernmental Forum on Forests (IFF): http://www.un.org/esa/forests/documents-iff.html Documents and Reports of Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF): http://www.un.org/esa/forests/documents-ipf.html
Selected Statements and Speeches of UN Officials
Deforestation fell almost 20 per cent in past decade, Secretary-General says in Message for International Day of Forests (SG/SM/14888-ENV/DEV/1339-OBV/1193, 20 March 2013): http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2013/sgsm14888.doc.htm