In 2006, at its sixth session, the Forum agreed on four shared Global Objectives on Forests, providing clear guidance on the future work of the international arrangement on forests.
The four Global Objectives seek to:
* Reverse the loss of forest cover worldwide through sustainable forest management (SFM), including protection, restoration, afforestation and reforestation, and increase efforts to prevent forest degradation;
* Enhance forest-based economic, social and environmental benefits, including by improving the livelihoods of forest-dependent people;
* Increase significantly the area of sustainably managed forests, including protected forests, and increase the proportion of forest products derived from sustainably managed forests; and
* Reverse the decline in official development assistance for sustainable forest management and mobilize significantly-increased new and additional financial resources from all sources for the implementation of SFM.
Taken directly from The United Nation Forum on Forests
Australia's contact at the UNFF is given as Tony Bartlett, General manager, Forest Industries Branch, DAFF.
From the DAFF website...
Mr Bartlett is also resonsible for Sustainable Resource Management, reporting to Australian Govenment Land and Coast, which includes Landcare and sustainable production.
Also Assistant Secretary Finance and Community Grants, again reporting to Austalian Government Lands and Coasts.
Ultimately he reports to the Minister for Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts DEWHA (currently Peter Garrett).
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