Forests and climate change: Progress since Paris, financing climate action and other emerging issues. Secretariat note of the Twenty-seventh session of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission (APFC)

Forests and climate change: Progress since Paris, financing climate action and other emerging issues. Secretariat note of the Twenty-seventh session of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission (APFC)

Colombo, Sri Lanka, 23-27 October 2017

Year of publication 2017

Pages 7p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Meeting

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Synopsis (short abstract) The Paris Agreement (December 2015) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) makes reference to the importance of conserving and enhancing carbon sinks and reservoirs and highlights the special role of forests in this regard.

Statutory body / Meeting title Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission (APFC)

Meeting symbol FO:APFC/2017/5

Meeting Session Number Sess. 27

Language English

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