Year of publication 2015

Welcome to the Fifth Edition of the “Booklet” about the Montréal Process Criteria and Indicators for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Temperate and Boreal Forests. The Booklet presents the Montréal Process framework of seven criteria and 54 indicators, and the rationale for the inclusion of each indicator within the relevant criterion, together with contextual information. The Montreal Process criteria and indicator framework was developed to characterise the essential components of sustainable forest management, the aim of which is to maintain the broad range of forest values in perpetuity. The indicators were approved by the Montréal Process Working Group at meetings in 2007 and 2008, following a comprehensive review of lessons learned in applying the original set of criteria and indicators established in 1995 in Santiago, Chile. The 12 member countries of the Montréal Process Working Group use this set of criteria and indicators to prepare Country Reports on progress toward sustainable forest management and, for some countries, as the basis for domestic processes to monitor, assess and report progress towards sustainable forest management.