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The 19th session of the UN Forum on Forests opened last week with focus on achieving Global Forest Goals and increasing progress towards sustainable development by 2030.
At the forum’s opening ceremony, Juliette Biao, director of the UNFF Secretariat, said the world currently faces numerous natural disasters, worsening climate change as well as conflict, growing poverty and unemployment, among other crises. To get back on target, Ms. Biao said countries need to “bolster political commitment and partnerships” in support of the GFGs.“We want a world where all types of forests are sustainably managed. A world where healthy forests are recognized as powerful nature-based solutions to most of the sustainable development challenges we face today,” she said. UN News
“The key outcomes will be a high-level segment declaration and an omnibus resolution, which will include the outcome of the midterm review and the Quadrennial Programme of Work of the Forum for 2025-2028,” Gondo said.
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