Development

Earlier this month, the UN open working group on the sustainable development goals (SDGs) proposed a framework to replace the millennium development goals (MDGs), which expire in 2015. The SDGs are meant to guide global action on health, poverty, hunger, climate and other development challenges. The key component of the SDGs, as its name indicates, […]

Secure land rights are essential for improving the livelihoods of the poor and, more broadly, for economic development. In many emerging economies however, land remains a largely unprotected asset, one that lacks documented tenure and property rights. By Iris Krebber, Senior Land Policy Lead, DFID and Chair, Global Donor Group on Land, originally published on […]

By Peter Holmgren, Director General of CIFOR. My previous blog post provided some context to how forests may fit into the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) framework. The timing of this discussion is important, as the UN Open Working Group on SDGs will discuss forests in its final meeting on 3-7 February 2014. Following this meeting, […]

The Outcome Statement includes the 13 recommendations to the UNFCCC and Sustainable Development Goals processes. More than 50 partner organizations developed these policy statements over the two days of the Forum.

By Peter Holmgren, Director General, CIFOR. How should we define forestry for sustainable development? On 3-7 February 2014, this will be debated in the UN General Assembly’s Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals. We are proud that CIFOR scientist Dr. Daju Resosudarmo has been invited to make a presentation and be on the expert […]