The 13th World Forestry Congress met in Buenos Aires with more than 7000 participants. It remains a crossroads of ideas, a focal point for confronting the visions from all over the world of forests, their future and the products and services they can be expected to supply. A message was addressed to the heads of states who planned to attend the Copenhagen COP 15 of the UNFCCC stating that forests are more than carbon. They harbor two thirds of all land-based biodiversity, and generate critical ecosystem goods and services. They sustain the cultural and spiritual identity of billions of men and women. The three main conclusions reached in Buenos Aires promote a more open approach towards society: the forest industry sector is encoura...
International negotiations relating to forests have proliferated since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 ...
A global forest convention has been advocated for about 15 years, but progress is slow and positions...
International audienceClimate change is now a more and more recognized reality. In France, 700 scien...
The World Forestry Congress is held every six years. This is an opportunity for exchanges on topics ...
The Tenth World Forestry Congress will take place in Paris from 17 - 26 September, 1991, under the d...
Le XIIe Congrès forestier mondial a eu lieu du 21 au 28 septembre 2003, à Québec, Canada, et a rasse...
The key global challenges as identified during the Rio+20 Summit (food, energy and climate change) a...
Forests cover 30% of the land surface and contain more than half of the carbon stored in terrestrial...
French version available in IDRC Digital Library: Répandre les semences en vue d'un avenir durableSp...
Community forestry can deliver economic, socio-cultural and ecological benefits to local communities...
More forest was lost between 1981 and 1990 than in any other decade in human history. Forests are be...
Each year 7.5 million hectares of tropical rainforests disappear as a result of the twin pressures o...
The forestry and forest-related industry, which generates a turnover of some 50 billion euros and pr...
Concern about the rate at which the world’s forests are being depleted is widespread. Recent interna...
Forests are a vital and productive resource able to contribute sustainably to the quality of human l...
International negotiations relating to forests have proliferated since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 ...
A global forest convention has been advocated for about 15 years, but progress is slow and positions...
International audienceClimate change is now a more and more recognized reality. In France, 700 scien...
The World Forestry Congress is held every six years. This is an opportunity for exchanges on topics ...
The Tenth World Forestry Congress will take place in Paris from 17 - 26 September, 1991, under the d...
Le XIIe Congrès forestier mondial a eu lieu du 21 au 28 septembre 2003, à Québec, Canada, et a rasse...
The key global challenges as identified during the Rio+20 Summit (food, energy and climate change) a...
Forests cover 30% of the land surface and contain more than half of the carbon stored in terrestrial...
French version available in IDRC Digital Library: Répandre les semences en vue d'un avenir durableSp...
Community forestry can deliver economic, socio-cultural and ecological benefits to local communities...
More forest was lost between 1981 and 1990 than in any other decade in human history. Forests are be...
Each year 7.5 million hectares of tropical rainforests disappear as a result of the twin pressures o...
The forestry and forest-related industry, which generates a turnover of some 50 billion euros and pr...
Concern about the rate at which the world’s forests are being depleted is widespread. Recent interna...
Forests are a vital and productive resource able to contribute sustainably to the quality of human l...
International negotiations relating to forests have proliferated since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 ...
A global forest convention has been advocated for about 15 years, but progress is slow and positions...
International audienceClimate change is now a more and more recognized reality. In France, 700 scien...