FORESTERS CONVENE IN ROME FOR COFO AND THE THIRD WORLD FOREST WEEK

摘要

The twenty-first session of the Committee on Forestry (COFO) and Third World Forest Week were convened concurrently 24 - 28 September 2012, at FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy. The events were well attended, with more than 600 registered participants from 120 countries. Major COFO agenda topics featured discussions on the state of the world's forests; translating the outcome of Rio+20 into action; strengthening forestry's cross-sectoral linkages; experiences of the International Year of Forests; programme priorities for FAO in forestry; Forest Resources Assessment Strategy; enhanced work on vegetation fires; and findings of the Strategic Evaluation of FAO forestry work.