Forests

Top Recommendations


  • Restore 150 million hectares of deforested and degraded lands by 2020. (Public Choice)

  • Promote science, technology, innovation and traditional knowledge in order to face forests main challenge: how to turn them productive without destroying them. (Audience Choice)

  • Zero Net Deforestation by 2020, respecting the rights and knowledge of peoples living in and from the forests and responding to their sustainable development needs. (Panelist Choice)
Global Forests Discussion

Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Photo by Neil Palmer/CIAT

 

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About the Dialogue

This site features the results of the Rio Dialogue on Forests, an online discussion hosted by the Government of Brazil and UNDP from April-June 2012 in the lead up to the Rio+20 Conference. Facilitated by global academics, the discussion brought together civil society organizations, private sector and the general public to prioritize recommendations to Heads of State at Rio+20.

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Facilitators

Prof. Benjamin Cashore

Yale University

Prof. Edson Vidal

University of Sao Paulo/ESALQ

Michelle Kovacevic

Center for International Forestry Research

Facilitators’ Report 

Reference Documents

Youth Mobilizer

Camila Nobrega (Brazil)

Members
Panel Debate – 17 June 2012

At the Rio Dialogues panels, leading thinkers and activists from civil society debated the results of the online discussions and the audience and panelists selected their top recommendations.

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Panelists

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Report of the Panel (IISD)

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