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Country-Led Initiative on Financing for Sustainable Forest Management in support of the UN Forum on Forests 8-12
September 2008 | Paramaribo, Suriname
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Highlights
for Friday, 12 September 2008
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On Friday afternoon, 12
September, participants of the Country-Led Initiative (CLI) on
financing sustainable forest management (SFM) in support of
the UN Forum on Forests (UNFF) concluded their deliberations
and agreed to the Co-Chairs’ Summary Report of the meeting.
The Report, a compilation of the views expressed during the
plenary sessions and breakout groups throughout the week, will
be forwarded to the UNFF Ad Hoc Expert Group meeting in Vienna, Austria in November 2008, and
the eighth session of the UNFF, to be held in 2009. After
closing statements by Co-Chair Cornelis Pigot
(Suriname) and Michael Jong Tjien Fa, Suriname Minister
of Physical Planning, Land and Forestry Management, Co-Chair
Pigot closed the meeting at 3:26 pm.
Above photo R-L: Co-Chair
Cornelis Pigot (Suriname) congratulates Co-Chair Stephanie
Caswell (US) on her upcoming retirement. |
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CLOSING PLENARY:
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photos L-R:Liu Jinlong (China)
confers the Co-Chairs Summary Report with Taina
Veltheim (Finland); delegates busy
reading the report before the start of
closing plenary. |
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photos: Co-Chairs Stephanie Caswell (US) and Hans
Hoogeveen (the Netherlands) received a token of
appreciation from Suriname; Kim van Seeters (the
Netherlands) received the gift on behalf of Co-Chair Hoogeveen. |
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photos L-R: Niermala Hindorie-Badrising (CLI
Secretariat) thanked the conference management team and local
staff for their hard work and excellent organization of the
meeting; Some of the members of the conference management
include co-chair Annette Tjon Sie Fat, Conservation
International, Suriname, Jan McAlpine (US), Charles
Barber (US) and Henry McDonald, Suriname Ambassador
to the United Nations. |
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Letchumanan
Ramatha (Malaysia), added
minor comments to the Co-Chairs’ Summary Report. |
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Arvids
Ozols (Latvia), thanked
the organizers of the CLI, and expressed hope that delegates
at UNFF 8 will build on the good ground work that had been
done at this meeting. |
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Fa, Suriname Minster of Physical Planning, Land and Forest Management, highlighted the open and insightful dialogue on SFM that had taken place over the course of the week. He noted that participants had addressed the most pressing issues of financing SFM, considered the constraints that exist within the international framework, and discussed methods to overcome these. He asked for support for Suriname, as a high forest cover low deforestation rate country, in future meetings and dialogue and expressed hope that a successful outcome on SFM financing will occur at UNFF 8. He closed the meeting at 3:26pm. |
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FACES AT THE PARAMARIBO DIALOGUE:
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Letchumanan
Ramatha and Ahmad Fedzil (Malaysia) |
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Irma
Tobing-Klein
(Suriname) |
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L-R:
Chair Stephanie Caswell, Jan McAlpine and Sandy
Cantler (US) |
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L-R:
Dorjee Sun, Carbon Conservation, Niermala
Hindorie-Badrising, CLI Secretariat, and
M.P. Jong Tjien Fa, Minister, Ministry of Physical
Planning, Land and Forest Management |
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Participants
from Malaysia and Indonesia in conversation. |
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| Jan
McAlpine greeting the ENB team during a session break. |
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Ingwald
Gschwandtl, Austria |
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Stefanie von Scheliha (Germany) reading
the YMB daily. |
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Cooper, World Bank |
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L-R:
Sokh Heng (Cambodia) and Alexis Lapiz
(Philippines) |
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Santos
Edgardo Cruz Lobo, (Honduras) |
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Country Led Initiative on Financing for Sustainble Forest Management in support of the UN Forum on Forests
 CLI Suriname website
CLI Suriname: Documentation website
UN Forum on Forests
Collaborative
Partnership on Forests
IISD RS resources
IISD RS coverage of the Seventh Session of the UN Forum on Forests (UNFF 7), 16-27 April 2007, New York, US
IISD RS coverage of the CLI in Support of the UNFF: Multi-Year Programme of Work, 13-16 February 2007, Bali, Indonesia
IISD RS coverage of the UNFF Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting, 11-15 December 2006, New York, US
IISD RS coverage of the Sixth Session of the UN Forum on Forests (UNFF 6), 13-24 February 2006, New York, US
IISD RS coverage of the CLI in Support of the UNFF: Scoping a Future Agreement on Forests, 16-18 November 2005, Berlin, Germany
IISD RS coverage of the Fifth Session of the UN Forum on Forests (UNFF 5), 16-27 May 2005, New York, US
IISD RS Forests, Desertification, Land
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