This is a presentation by International Institute for Environment and Development principal researcher Simon Milledge for a webinar that focused on the contribution that forests can make to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With forests and landscapes with trees such an important part of a number of different SDG, IIED recommends working towards a transformative 'forest module'. The modular approach improves on the more limited current focus on sustainable forest management, deforestation and reforestation targets. It makes explicit the diversity of targets needing inclusion and resolution in order to create an enabling environment that would yield much greater sustainable development outcomes for forests, landscapes and livelihoods. As the negotiation phase nears, our assessment of the UN Open Working Group’s zero draft finds a strong set of goals and targets, but containing several potentially serious trade-offs and missing issues. The webinar took place on Wednesday, 6 August. More details: http://bit.ly/XVLWeh.

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Enabling forests to score
sustainable development goals
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Agenda
Welcome and Housekeeping
Presentation: Embedding forests in the SDGs
Simon Milledge, IIED
Interactive moderated discussion

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Objective
How can the SDG framework best
enable forests to contribute towards
diverse goal areas?
Identifying critical elements of the existing framework
for retention, as well as missing issues and trade-offs
that need stronger consideration.

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Existing frameworks
Sustainable forest management
Sustainable landscape management
Locally controlled forestry
Forests in green economy

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Categories of enabler
• Social justice within secure forest
stewardship arrangements
• Fair, accessible and responsible
market systems
• Organisational capabilities to manage
multi-functional landscapes
• Incentives and practical metrics

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SDG ‘forest module’

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Missing Issues
• Transformative change
• Individual and collective rights, forest and farm producer
organisation, land use planning, watershed restoration
• Universal scope
• Food systems, locally controlled forestry and small scale
enterprises, biomass energy
• Addressing integration
• Indicator development and existing frameworks

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