Global forum on forest governance 2021: What space for forests and forest-dependent peoples?
Growing demand for natural resources and land is placing forests under increasing pressure. This raises the question of how competing priorities can, and should, be balanced for local and global environmental services – such as water resources, biodiversity, carbon sinks, for local and global markets and for the provision of livelihoods and cultural values.
This session considers how the governments of tropical forest countries are seeking to meet these different priorities and to reconcile competing demands as set out in their national development and climate strategies including NDCs.
In particular, it explores what space is being allocated to diverse forests and for rural peoples and the consultation mechanisms and decision-making processes that have been put in place to support the development and implementation of these strategies.
Paige Lainger, Associate, Global Forest Programme, World Resources Institute
Marie-Ange Kalenga, Forest, Governance and Development Policy Advisor, Fern
León Jorge Castaños, Director-General, National Forestry Commission of Mexico
Chair: Thiago Uehara, Research Fellow, Energy, Environment and Resources Programme, Chatham House