With a lingering food crisis and global population growing by 90 million a year, countries will decide how they can scale up successful pilot projects to grow more food in a greener way when the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development meets at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 4 to 15 May.

Jan McAlpine, Director of the United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat, appealed to Member States this afternoon to increase support for the body’s Trust Fund, which had received only about one quarter of its $2.6 million budget for activities during the 2008-2009 period.

28 April 2009

Economic and Social CouncilENV/DEV/1038

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

United Nations Forum on Forests

Eighth Session

8^th Meeting (AM)

FORUM ON FORESTS CONSIDERS INPUT BY CIVIL SOCIETY AS DELEGATES

CONTINUE MULTI-STAKEHOLDER DIALOGUE WITH MAJOR GROUPS

 

24 April 2009

Economic and Social CouncilENV/DEV/1037

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

United Nations Forum on Forests

Eighth Session

7^th Meeting (PM)

FORUM ON FORESTS HOLDS MID-SESSION REVIEW OF PROGRESS IN NEGOTIATIONS

BY WORKING GROUPS, CONSIDERS NEXT WEEK’S DISCUSSION

 

22 April 2009

Economic and Social CouncilENV/DEV/1036

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

United Nations Forum on Forests

Eighth Session

6^th Meeting (AM)

PROPOSED MEETING TO DISCUSS ‘ALARMING’ RATE OF DEFORESTATION DRAWS

INTEREST AS FORUM ON FORESTS CONCLUDES GENERAL DEBATE

 

21 April 2009

Economic and Social CouncilENV/DEV/1035

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

United Nations Forum on Forests

Eighth Session

4^th & 5^th Meetings (AM & PM)

FORUM FOCUSES ON POTENTIAL STRATEGIC ROLE OF SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT

 

IN CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION, ADAPTATION MEASURES

 

20 April 2009

Economic and Social CouncilENV/DEV/1034

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

United Nations Forum on Forests

Eighth Session

2^nd & 3^rd Meetings* (AM & PM)

CHAIRMAN CALLS FOR ‘BREAKTHROUGH’ IN TRANSLATING CONCEPT INTO REALITY

AS UNITED NATIONS FORUM ON FORESTS OPENS EIGHTH SESSION

 

17 April 2009

Economic and Social CouncilENV/DEV/1033

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Background Release

AS 2009 FORUM OPENS, MEMBER STATES TO GRAPPLE WITH FUNDING

 

FOR FOREST MANAGEMENT IN TIMES OF CHANGING ENVIRONMENT

 

27 February 2009

Economic and Social CouncilENV/DEV/1030

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Commission on Sustainable Development

Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting

9^th & 10^th Meetings (AM & PM)

26 February 2009

Economic and Social CouncilENV/DEV/1029

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Commission on Sustainable Development

Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting

7^th & 8^th Meetings (AM & PM)