Information on MCPFE Expert Level (ELM) & AG meetings:

focus on MCPFE-2007 Conference

Meeting of the UNECE/FAO Team of Specialists on“Monitoring forest resources for SFM in the UNECE Region”

(Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 21-22 May 2007)

Roman Michalak, Olga Zyrina / LU Warsaw

MCPFE key events after the 2nd ToS Meeting

• the 2nd meeting of the ad hoc MCPFE Advisory Group on the Elaboration of „the Report State of Forests and Sustainable Forest Management in Europe 2007”,

Hamburg, Germany, 31 May 2006

• MCPFE Expert Level Meeting,

Warsaw, Poland, 9-10 October 2006

5th MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON THE PROTECTION OF FORESTS IN EUROPE

„Forests for quality of life”

5-7 November, 2007Warsaw, Poland

• Warsaw Declaration

• Warsaw Resolution 1 “Forests, Wood and Energy”

• Warsaw Resolution 2 “Forests and Water”

Documents (1)

• Pan-European Guidelines for Afforestation and Reforestation with a special focus on mitigation and adaptation to climate change*

* Supposed to be an agreed document by the MCPFE and the Environment for Europe/Pan European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy (EfE/PEBLDS)

Documents (2)

• Report on State of Forests and Sustainable Forest Management in Europe 2007

• Report on Implementation of the MCPFE Commitments, 2003-2007

Documents (3)

“Forests for quality of life”

forests being a part of

environment

interaction with water

wood and potential in providing

energy

The solid composition of the logo units communicates mutualinteractions among different forms of life, including human beings

Conference Programme

• Opening ceremony

• Multi Stakeholder Dialogue (MSD)

• State of SFM in Europe - thematic session

• Presentation of the Conference Documents

• Statements of European Ministers and the EC, Observer Organizations, Observer Countries

• MSD Chairman’s Summary

• Signing the Declaration and Resolutions

• Closure of the Conference

• Field trip

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MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON THEFOREST PROTECTION IN EUROPE