Events

19th session of the UN Forum on Forests

From: 06.05.2024 to: 10.05.2024

The eighteenth session of the UN Forum on Forests decided that the nineteenth session of the Forum will be held at UN Headquarters from 6 to 10 May 2024. The thematic priorities for UNFF18 and UNFF19 are: enhancing forest-based economic, social and environmental benefits; increasing the area of protected forests worldwide and other areas of sustainably managed forests, as well as the proportion of forest products from sustainably managed forests; and mobilizing financial resources and strengthening scientific and technical cooperation; promoting governance frameworks to advance implementation; and enhancing cooperation, coordination and coherence, for sustainable forest management.

Learn more about the Forum here.

On 10 May, the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, jointly with the UN Group of Friends for Mountains, in the framework of the Mountain Partnership and under the Five Years of Action for the Development of Mountain Regions, will host the side event "Five Years of Action for the sustainable development of mountain regions: promoting mountain forests" - side event details here.