Events

World Environment Day- Nature: Forests at Your Service

This year's World Environment Day will be marked on June 5 2011 with the theme Forests: Nature at Your Service. Conserving forests and expanding them need to be recognized as a business opportunity.  When we add it up, an investment of US$30 billion fighting deforestation and degradation could provide a return of US$2.5 trillion in new products and services.

World Agroforestry Centre Invites you to these events at COP 16

The World Agroforestry Centre and the ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins would like to alert you to the following COP16 events focused on climate change, agriculture, and food security. 

Agriculture and Rural Development Day, 4 December 2010, Cancún Mexico

Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2010 will be a parallel event to the UNFCCC 16th Conference of Parties in Cancún, Mexico. Read more: Agriculture and Rural Development Day Website.

Forest Day 4, 5 December 2010, Cancún, Mexico

Forest Day 4 will be the fourth in this series of influential events. It will take place on 5 December 2010 alongside the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 16th Conference of the Parties in Cancún, Mexico at the Cancún Center. Forest Day 4 is hosted by the Government of Mexico, through the National Forestry Commission, the Collaborative Partnership on Forests and CIFOR. Our goal for Forest Day 4 is to build on the momentum of past events and the heightened global awareness of the role forests play in mitigating and adapting to climate change.

XXIII IUFRO World Congress, 23-28 August 2010, Seoul

"Forests for the Future: sustaining Society and the Environment", 23-28 August 2010, Seoul, Republic of Korea Details on the scientific program, congress themes and registrations are now given in the First Announcement that includes also the invitation letters of the host organization and the IUFRO President.

Measuring carbon in complex landscapes with trees - ICRAF/ASB side event at SBSTA32

How do you account for carbon stored outside forests?

Workshop on forest governance, decentralisation and REDD+ in Latin America and the Caribbean. 31 August - 3 September 2010, Oaxaca, Mexico

A country-led initiative in support of the UN Forum on Forests by the Governments of Mexico and Switzerland

18th Commonwealth Forestry Conference, Edinburgh. 28 June - 2 July 2010

The Commonwealth Forestry Conference will occur at a crucial time for the world’s forests and their role in combating dangerous climate change. The conference will include a special session:  Post-Copenhagen: Delivering REDD+ on Thursday 1 July (morning). By bringing together communities of scientists, economists, policy-makers, social-scientists, investors a

IASC 2011 - Sustaining Commons: Sustaining our Future. January 10-14 2011, Hyderabad, India.

The 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) will be held in Hyderabad, India from January 10th to 14th, 2011.

Fourth RRI Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change. London, April 6 2010

The Rights and Resources Initiative is pleased to announce the fourth Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change to be held in London on April 6, 2010.

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