{"id":3553,"date":"2012-09-30T09:08:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T08:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sylva.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2012-09-30T09:08:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T08:08:59","slug":"sylva-ceo-addresses-world-forestry-leaders-at-cofo-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/sylva-ceo-addresses-world-forestry-leaders-at-cofo-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylva CEO addresses world forestry leaders at COFO 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3554\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/forestry\/cofo\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3554\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3554 \" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"COFO 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/COFO-2012-300x119.jpg\" alt=\"COFO 2012\" width=\"300\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Committee on Forestry 2012<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last week the 21st session of the UN&#8217;s Committee on Forestry (COFO) met in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>One of the outcomes of Rio+20 discussions was agreement that forests have a significant\u00a0role to play in addressing many sustainable development challenges. The 21st session of COFO focussed on translating the results of Rio+20 into actions, with the subtitle <em>Forests:\u00a0 a green pathway for human development.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The key topics were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Integrating forests with environmental and land use policies at all levels;<\/li>\n<li>Forests, trees\u00a0 and people together in a living landscape: A key to rural development;<\/li>\n<li>Broadening the financial basis for sustainable forest management: wood and non-wood products, services, innovations, markets, investments and international instruments;<\/li>\n<li>Sound information and knowledge base for better policies and good governance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sylva&#8217;s CEO Dr Gabriel Hemery was invited to speak at the meeting &#8211; addressing ministers and leaders of forestry organisations from across the world. He called for a global effort to revive a wood culture and proposed an innovative project. Good interest was shown from a number of possible partner countries, and the <a title=\"Forestry department of FAO\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/forestry\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forestry Department of the UN&#8217;s Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO)<\/a> is supportive of the concept.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0<a title=\"Committee on Forestry 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/forestry\/cofo\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more about COFO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last week&#8217;s 21st session of the UN&#8217;s Committee on Forestry (COFO) in Rome, Sylva&#8217;s CEO called for a global effort to revive a wood culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/COFO-2012.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}