Global forum on forest governance 2021: Legal reforms – Progress over the last decade & next steps
Processes of legal reform aimed at facilitating sustainable forest use have been implemented in many forest-rich countries driven by domestic agendas and international processes including FLEGT and REDD for example.
While notable achievements have been seen in many countries, elsewhere, legal reforms have been made that risk having a negative impact on forests and forest peoples. This has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic in response to which some countries have been rolling back environmental and social protections in order to boost their economies.
This session considers some of the progress made focusing in particular on the processes and mechanisms that have been established to implement these reforms and the resilience of the reforms to reversal.
The implications of these are considered for future reform efforts, in particular, those needed if climate ambitions are to be achieved.
Tanja Venisnik, Senior Law and Policy Advisor, Community Forestry Lead, Client Earth
Ines Gady, Programme Cooridinator, Comptoir Juridique Junior, Republic of the Congo
Rukka Sombolinggi, Secretary General, Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago, AMAN
Ketty Marcelo, Vice President, ONAMIAP, Peru
Chair: Alison Hoare, Senior Research Fellow, Energy, Environment and Resources Programme, Chatham House