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Asia-Pacific Forestry Week: Growing our Future!

A summary of Asia-Pacific Forestry Week 2016

Year of publication 2017

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 264 p.

Author FAO;

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-109655-0

Synopsis (short abstract) APFW 2016, co-hosted by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources of the Philippines and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, followed the success of the two previous Forestry Weeks. Drawing from the previous experiences, the third forestry week was the biggest forestry week yet, attended by around 1300 participants from governments, non-government organizations, research institutions, regional and international networks, UN agencies, universities and colleges. The global acceptance of the milestone agreements in 2015 – adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals and COP21 agreement - resulted in an idea for the theme “Growing Our Future”, which reflects the need for society to integrate forestry into the wider context of sustainable development. The theme provided an opportunity for diverse decision makers and stakeholders to discuss, exchange ideas and develop a plan of how to implement these global agreements on a local scale in forestry.

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