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Call to Action on Forest Education

Year of publication 2021

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Author FAO, IUFRO, ITTO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Poster, banner

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The Call to Action on Forest Education is a collective appeal from stakeholders around the globe, urging immediate action to strengthen forest education, capacity development and knowledge sharing worldwide. It focuses on eight key actions that are needed to improve formal and informal forest education and training programmes around the world. Forest education stakeholders and actors are invited to endorse the Call to Action. They include, among others: policy makers, forest and environmental educators and students, non-governmental organizations, community-based and Indigenous People’s organizations, the private sector, and regional and international organizations. The Call to Action is the culmination of an eighteen-month effort by the Global Forest Education Project to assess the status and needs of forest education, training and knowledge. It was launched and opened for endorsement at the International Conference on Forest Education (held virtually, 22-24 June 2021). It does not represent a formally negotiated outcome, and its endorsement does not carry any legal obligations or financial commitment

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