FO:LACFC/2000/INF.2



LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN FORESTRY COMMISSION

TWENTY-FIRST SESSION

Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia, 4-8 September, 2000

PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE



Sunday 3 September 
17:00 - 19:00 Registration (Bogota Plaza Hotel)
Monday 4 September 
08:30 - 09:20 Registration (Bogota Plaza Hotel)
09:30 - 10:40 Opening ceremony
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Item 1. Adoption of Agenda. Doc. FO:LACFC/2000/1
  Item 2. Election of Officers.
11:30 - 12:00 Item 3. State of forestry in the Region. Doc. FO:LACFC/2000/2
(3a) Presentation of the State of Forestry in the Region
12:00 - 12:30 (3b) Presentations by the Sub-Regional Groups of the Commission
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 16:00 Item 3a and Item 3b (Continuation)
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee break
16:20 - 17:30 Item 4. FAO Reports.
(4a) Review of FAO Regular and Field Programmes, including follow-up to the recommendations and requests of the Twentieth session of the Commission. Doc. FO:LACFC/2000/3
19:00 - 21:00 Reception offered by the Government of Colombia
Tuesday 5 September 
09:00 - 09:45 Item 4 (Continuation). FAO Reports
(4b) The forest resources assessment 2000 (FRA 2000). Doc. FO:LACFC/2000/4
09:45 - 10:30 (4c) The national forest programmes in the Region. Doc. FO:LACFC/2000/5
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 - 11:15 (4d) Technical cooperation networks in the forestry sector sponsored by the FAO Regional Office for Latin American and the Caribbean. Doc. FO:LACFC/2000/6
11:15 - 12: 30 Item 5. Activities of other international/intergovernmental/non-governmental organizations in the Region.
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 15:15 Item 6. Follow-up to UNCED and IFF as related to forestry. Doc. FO:LACFC/2000/7
15:15 - 16:00 Item 7. Technical items.
(7a) Prevention and control of forest fires. Doc. FO:LACFC/2000/8
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee break
16:20 - 17:00 (7b) The International Year of Mountains 2002. Doc. FO:LACFC/2000/9
17:00 - 17:30 (7c) Forestry and the Kyoto Protocol: Key issues. Doc. FO:LACFC/2000/10
17:30 - 18.30 Side Meeting on the national forestry programmes
19:00 - 21:00 Reception offered by FAO
Wednesday 6 September 
09:00 - 09:45 Item 7c (Continuation). Technical items.
09:45 - 10:30 Item 8. In-Session Seminar: Forestry Sector Information Projects and Outlook Study for Latin America and the Caribbean. Doc. FO:LACFC/2000/11
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 - 12:00 Item 8 (Continuation)
12:00 - 12:30 Item 9. Introduction to Workshops of the Sub-Regional Groups of the Commission on past and ongoing activities and preparation of work plans. Doc. FO:LACFC/2000/12
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 16:00 Workshops of the Sub-Regional Groups of the Commission on past and ongoing activities and preparation of work plans: Caribbean, Central America and Mexico, Amazon, and the Southern Cone
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee break
16:20 - 17:00 Item 9 (Continuation)
17:00 - 17:30 Presentations of Sub-Regional Groups
17:30 - 18:30 Side Meeting on the Information Project for Latin America
Thursday 7 September 
08:30 Departure for field trip from the Bogota Plaza Hotel
17:30 Arrival at the Bogota Plaza Hotel
Friday 8 September 
09:00 - 10:00 Item 10. Regional issues identified by the Commission for the attention of the Committee on Forestry.
  Item 11. Other business.
  Item 12. Date and place of next session of the LACFC.
10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break
10:20 - 12:30 Item 13. Adoption of report
Closing of session