Report of the United Nations Forum on Forests on Its 3rd Session and Provisional Agenda for Its 4th Session

E/DEC/2003/298View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, published in 2004.

What other versions does this mandate have?

10 versions · 2002–2022

This is an older version — the most recent is E/DEC/2022/341

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2022	E/DEC/2022/341	Report of the United Nations Forum on Forests on its 17th session and provisional agenda for its 18th session	430	50%Compare
2021	E/DEC/2021/225	Report of the United Nations Forum on Forests on its 16th session and provisional agenda for its 17th session	463	33%Compare
2018	E/DEC/2018/239	Report of the United Nations Forum on Forests on its 13th session and provisional agenda for its 14th session	371	62%Compare
2017	E/DEC/2017/254	Report of the United Nations Forum on Forests on its 12th session and provisional agenda for its 13th session	297	—
2014	E/DEC/2013/240	Report of the United Nations Forum on Forests on its 10th session and provisional agenda for its 11th session	—	—

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26 operative paragraphs

At its 49th plenary meeting, on 25 July 2003, the Economic and Social Council:

(a) Took note of the report of the United Nations Forum on Forests on its third session;84

(b) Approved the provisional agenda for the fourth session of the Forum as set out below.

Election of officers.

Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.

Status of the Secretariat.

Implementation of the proposal for action of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests/Intergovernmental Forum on Forests and the plan of action of the United Nations Forum on Forests:

Progress in implementation:

Traditional forest-related knowledge;

Forest-related scientific knowledge;

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Social and cultural aspects of forests;

Monitoring, assessment and reporting, concepts,

terminology and definitions;

Criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management;

84 Ibid., Supplement No. 22 (E/2003/42). (b)

Means of implementation (finance,

transfer of environmentally sound technologies and capacitybuilding for sustainable forest management) as a crosscutting issue, considered in the context of sub-items 4 (a)

to (v) above.

Common items for each session:

Multi-stakeholder dialogue;

Enhanced cooperation;

Country experiences and lessons learned;

Emerging issues relevant to country implementation;

Intersessional work;

Monitoring, assessment and reporting;

Promoting public participation;

National forest programmes;

Trade;

Enabling environment.

Other matters.

Dates and venue of the fifth session of the Forum.

Provisional agenda for the fifth session of the Forum.

Adoption of the report of the Forum on its fourth session.

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