Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
(in a message to COFO from Japan):
¿Our imminent challenge is to lay the ground for reversing the current trends of deforestation...¿

Teresa Presas, President of the International Council of Forest and Paper Associations (ICFPA) ¿With 9 billion people on earth in 2015, global economy will have to deal with scarcities...¿

Niels Elers Koch, President of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) ¿IUFRO has approved a new strategy for the next four years...¿