Asia-Pacific forestry information

2015

11.03

Corruption feeds and sustains ‘spiralling’ wildlife and forest

3 November 2015, UN News Center news – Expressing concern that spiralling wildlife and forest crime – fuelled by corrosive corruption – can impede vital progress of the new global sustainable development agenda, the top United Nations anti-crime official and the head of the global UN–backed treaty on protecting...

2015

11.06

UN Environment Programme Statement on Southeast Asian Fires

6 November 2015, UNEP news -UN Environment Programme Executive Director Achim Steiner issued the following statement today regarding the ongoing fires on the islands of Sumatra, Borneo and Papua: UNEP has observed with increasing alarm the spread of forest and peat fires on the islands of Sumatra, Borneo and Papua. We are...

2015

10.28

APEC Forest Ministers Stress SFM for Long-Term Sustainable Development

28 October 2015, IISD - At their meeting held from 27-29 October 2015, in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, the Ministers Responsible for Forestry of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) endorsed the Eda Statement, which highlights the importance of sustainable forest management (SFM) in achieving long-term sustainable...

2015

11.06

Silva2015 Calls for Development of Forest-Related Indicators on SDGs

6 November 2015, IISD news - Silva2015, the joint session of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry and the European Forestry Commission of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), addressed the theme The Value of Forests. The session gathered representatives...

2015

09.25

UN adopts new Global Goals, charting sustainable development for

25 September 2015, UN News Center news – The 193-Member United Nations General Assembly today formally adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, along with a set of bold new Global Goals, which Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hailed as a universal, integrated and transformative vision for a better world. Delegations...

2015

10.27

World’s protected forests lost 3 percent of their tree cover in 13

27 October 2015, Mongabay news - Forests around the worldare whittled away as trees are felled for lumber, land is cleared for agriculture, and fires ravage landscapes. Protected areas are established as a way to prevent ecosystem damage, but a new study released recently finds that this may not beworking very well in many...

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