Report of the United Nations Forum on Forests on Its 14th Session and Provisional Agenda of Its 15th Session

E/DEC/2019/236View PDF

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A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 18k United Nations Forum on Forests, published in 2020.

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2020	E/DEC/2020/222	Report of the United Nations Forum on Forests on its 15th session and provisional agenda of its 16th session	—	–
2020	E/DEC/2019/236	Report of the United Nations Forum on Forests on its 14th session and provisional agenda of its 15th session	332	–

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At its 36th plenary meeting, on 23 July 2019, the Economic and Social Council:

(a) Took note of the report of the United Nations Forum on Forests on its fourteenth session;29

(b) Noted that the fifteenth session of the Forum would be held at United Nations Headquarters from 4 to 8 May 2020;

Election of officers.

Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.

Implementation of the United Nations strategic plan for forests 2017–2030:

Policy dialogue on the thematic and operational priorities, priority actions and resource needs for the period 2019–2020, taking into account the review cycle of the high-level political forum on sustainable development during the biennium and the theme of the International Day of Forests;

Voluntary announcement of voluntary national contributions;

United Nations system-wide contributions to the implementation of the global forest goals and targets.

Monitoring, assessment and reporting: progress on the implementation of the strategic plan, including the United Nations forest instrument and voluntary national contributions.

Means of implementation: availability of resources for the Global Forest Financing Facilitation Network and its priority actions and resource needs for the quadrennial programme of work for the period 2021–2024.

Emerging issues and challenges.

Trust fund for the United Nations Forum on Forests.

High-level segment, including a forest partnership forum with the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, nongovernmental organizations and private sector chief executive officers.

Adoption of the quadrennial programme of work for the period 2021–2024, including consideration of its priority actions and resource needs.

Information on the reform of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs pertaining to the Forum.

Dates and venue of the sixteenth session of the Forum.

Provisional agenda of the sixteenth session of the Forum.

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

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