6 May 2024 - The 19th session of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Forum on Forests (Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵFF19) opened on Monday with focus on achieving Global Forest Goals and increasing progress towards sustainable development by 2030.
The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵFF serves as a body under the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and aims to support the goals of the International Arrangement on Forests (IAF) and to advance other international forest-related instruments, processes, commitments and objectives.
At the forum¡¯s opening ceremony, Juliette Biao, Director of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵFF Secretariat, said the world currently faces numerous natural disasters, worsening climate change as well as conflict, growing poverty and unemployment, among other crises.
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