International Cooperation in Forest Management: Choosing a Non-legally Binding Status

摘要

In their most recent sessions, the Parties participating in the UN Forum on Forests (UNFF) have decided again that there is no need for an international Legally Binding Instrument (LBI) on forest issues. This year's Seventh Session of the UNFF (UNFF-7) completed negotiations and adopted a new "Non-legally Binding Instrument on All Types of Forest", supplementing the prior instruments to date. This decision's importance is not only in giving further evidence that countries are currently less willing to accept additional binding obligations, but in its indication of a further shift of international attention and effort away from forests and into a more intensive focus on climate change, as an indirect medium for achieving forest conservation.