Three Programme Elements
1.
Conservation, sustainable use and benefit-sharing
e.g., Forest fires, climate change, protected areas, invasive alien species, habitat fragmentation, pollution, forest restoration, species conservation, illegal logging, indigenous and local communities, access and benefit-sharing
5 Goals:
- Apply the Ecosystem Approach to the management of all types of forests
- Reduce the threats and mitigate the impacts of threatening processes on forest biodiversity
- Protect, recover and restore forest biodiversity
- Promote the sustainable use of forest biodiversity
- Access and benefit-sharing of forest genetic resources
2.
Institutional and socio-economic enabling environment
e.g., understanding causes of biodiversity loss, incentive measures, sectoral integration and mainstreaming, land tenure, forest Law Enforcement and Governance (FLEG), CEPA
3 Goals:
- Enhance the institutional enabling environment
- Address socio-economic failures and distortions that lead to decisions that result in loss of forest biodiversity
- Increase public education, participation and awareness
3.
Knowledge, assessment and monitoring
e.g., Global forest classification system, assessment methods, understanding ecosystem functioning, data and information management
4 Goals:
- Characterize and analyse from forest ecosystem to global scale and develop general classification of forests on various scales in order to improve the assessment of status and trends of forest biodiversity
- Improve knowledge on and methods for the assessment of the status and trends of forest biodiversity
- Improve understanding of the role of forest biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
- Improve the infrastructure for data and information management for accurate assessment and monitoring of global forest biodiversity
