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| Submission |
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8369 |
| Submitting Entity |
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United Nations Forum on Forests |
| Submitted for |
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Tenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 10) |
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| Main Information |
| Title |
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Financing for Sustainable Forest Management: Current Challenges in the Changed Financial Environment. |
| Description |
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The present note provides background information to assist the Ad Hoc Expert
Group on the Finance and Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies in
carrying out its tasks.
Financing is a pervasive issue in the international development policy
framework. Adequate financing for sustainable forest management is directly linked
to poverty alleviation, improved food security, access to safe drinking water,
affordable energy, changing unsustainable patterns of consumption and production
and protecting and managing the natural resource base of economic and social
development.
Currently several market and policy failures decrease the profitability of
sustainable forest management. Also, perverse incentives and higher profits in other
economic sectors contribute to deforestation and forest degradation. Considering the
decline in overseas development assistance, which has seriously affected the primary
production sector in developing countries, it is difficult to build realistic financial
strategies based on an increasing role of official development assistance flows. On
the other hand, private investments have been increasing, but the investment climate
in forestry is currently not competitive. Furthermore, most of the foreign direct
investment goes to a very limited number of countries. For the vast majority of
developing countries official development assistance remains the backbone of
financing. |
| Web Link |
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/doc/case-studies/inc/cs-inc-unff-02-en.pdf |
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| Additional Information |
| Ecosystems |
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Forest Biodiversity |
| Incentive Measures |
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Reform of Perverse Incentives
Economic Valuation |
| Keywords |
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Subsidy reform |
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