Forest Day is a platform for anyone with an interest in forests and climate change to share their views and work together to ensure forests remain high on the agenda for global strategies to address climate change. Forest Day is designed to inform and engage world leaders, scientists, donors, media, policy makers, nongovernmental and intergovernmental groups organisations, leaders of indigenous people and communities that rely on forests, and climate negotiators.
Forest Day 4 will be the fourth in this series of influential events. It will take place on 5 December 2010 alongside the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 16th Conference of the Parties in Cancún, Mexico at the Cancún Center. Forest Day 4 is hosted by the Government of Mexico, through the National Forestry Commission, the Collaborative Partnership on Forests and CIFOR.
Our goal for Forest Day 4 is to build on the momentum of past events and the heightened global awareness of the role forests play in mitigating and adapting to climate change.
This year Forest Day 4 aims to:
- reinforce and clarify the position of forests as key to the emerging global climate change strategy;
- inform UNFCCC negotiators of new knowledge, consensus and controversy relevant to issues under discussion;
- provide a forum where a wide range of stakeholders and world leaders can discuss new challenges and issues arising from the implementation of REDD+ and adaptation schemes to alleviate climate change;
- ensure a diversity of opinion and stakeholder participation;
- provide a platform for the presentation and discussion of new science relevant to forest and climate policy and practice;
- achieve an optimum level of integration and coordination with other policy arenas and events, such as those focused on biodiversity and agriculture; and
- engage international and local media in issues of forests and climate change.
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