Inaugural meeting of the UNECE/FAO Team of Specialists on“Monitoring forest resources for SFM in the UNECE Region”

Areas and modalities of the cooperation between the MCPFE and Montréal Process

Geneva, Palais des Nations, 25-27 April 2005

Roman Michalak

C&I for SFM

• United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, June 1992)– Agenda 21– ‘Forest Principles’

• Second Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe - Helsinki 1993

C&I Regional Processes

International C&I initiatives and processes (9)

• the International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO), the Tarapoto Proposal (Amazon Region), the African Dry Zone Process covering the sub-Saharan area, the Near East Process, and the Dry Forest Asia initiative, the Lepaterique Process (Central America), African Timber Organization (ATO).

• Working Group on Criteria and Indicators for Conservation and Sustainable Forest Management of Temperate and Boreal Forests - Montreal Process (1994)

Global consultations (1)

• The "International Conference on the Contribution of Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management: The Way Forward" (CICI-2003), held in Guatemala City in February 2003,– seven thematic areas of sustainable forest management

common to all regional and international criteria and indicator processes

– To strengthen collaboration and coordination among criteria and indicator processes

Global consultations (2)

The Expert Consultation on Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management (ECCI-2004) in Cebu City, Philippines, 2004.– C&I processes are encouraged to hold collaborative

meetings to address technical issues related to terms and definitions. Initiatives should be taken by active processes

– Further efforts should be made to harmonize terms of common interest between C&I processes and FRA. The processes should make best use of existing, internationally accepted concepts, terms and definitions.

MCPFE

• Work Programme„SFM related monitoring, assessment and reporting through C&I; … ; co-ordination with other C&I processes”

• ELM, October 2004„ The need for further development of co-

operation among the MCPFE and other C&I processes, in particular the Montreal Process”

UNECE/FAO

• Regional reporting (TBFRA)

• 10th meeting of the Team of Specialists on Forest Resource Assessment

• Analysis of Scope, Coverage and Methodological Approaches for the Regional UNECE/FAO Work on Forest Resources Assessment in the Global FRA Context - Ewald Rametsteiner

Montréal Process

• 16th Meeting in Jasper, Alberta, Canada October, 2004

„To further greater convergence of sustainable forest management criteria, the Montréal Process will co-host a meeting with the MCPFE and ITTO to explore possibilities for common definitions and protocols common to our criteria and indicators (C&I) processes …”

„Inter-C&I process harmonization workshop”

Białowieża, Poland, 11-13 October 2005

ITTO, MCPFE, Montréal Process, FAO, UNECE

„Inter-C&I process harmonization workshop”

• consensus on the meaning of collaboration a among the C&I processes

• the audience for national sustainability reports

• general model for C&I

Thank you very much!